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They want the company to pull out of a planned June 6 launch of the $100 shoe.Industry website Sneaker News reported that Nike says the design is a tribute to Puerto Rico and features a graphic Nike Air Max Command Mujer representing the native Coqui frog.However, Guna chief Belisario Lopez told a press conference in Panama City: "They must recognize that the mola that appears on the Nike shoes is from the Guna people."Lopez said the Guna people's case against Nike "is not the only one in the world. Thousands of designs and the ancestral knowledge of indigenous people are Adidas ZX 750 Femme being pirated by multinational Nike Air Max TN Mujercompanies."Guna lawyer Aresio Valiente Nike Air Presto Womens told AFP the indigenous people were seeking Nike Air Max 1 Dam damages and the withdrawal of the shoe, "which Nike Air Pegasus 83 Femme is part of the spirituality of the Guna people"."So the Nike Air Max 270 Femme company has to compensate us because it was an illegal copy of our designs," Valiente said.

"We have already sent a note of protest to the Nike company, but we have not had an answer."The Guna people live in communities in Panama and Colombia. Most Guna live in Kuna Yala, also Adidas ZX Flux Womens known as the San Blas islands, off the Caribbean coast of Panama. Environmentalists say the low-lying islands are being threatened by rising seas due to global warming."The mola is like a flag for the Guna. There is really a cultural identity that is articulated around the mola. It is a very strong element of identity," said Monica Martinez, professor of social anthropology at Nike Air Vapormax Femme Barcelona University who has been Nike Air Max 2017 Mujer studying the Guna for nearly two decades.There Nike Air Max 1 Dámské are "more and more cases" worldwide in which www.romanvavrik.cz indigenous people are reporting theft of their Nike Air Max 97 Femme intellectual property by designers or large companies, Martinez said.

"The interesting thing here is that there are debates in the World Intellectual Property Organization and there are demands from indigenous peoples that something has to be done. But nothing is being done."Panama City, May 21Nike Air Max 2017 Mujer (AFP) May 21, 2019
US sportswear giant Nike said Tuesday it was withdrawing its latest shoe after Panama's indigenous Guna community accused it of "pirating" a protected traditional design.Lawyers for the Guna said the special-edition Air Force 1 model shoe sports a traditional "mola" design without their permission, flouting their intellectual property rights.They had demanded Nike Air Max 1 Womens the company pull out of a planned June 6 launch of the $100 shoe.After Nike Air Max 97 Dam being contacted by AFP, a Nike spokesperson Nike Air Pegasus 83 Womens said: "We apologize for the inaccurate representation Adidas ZX Flux Womens of the design origin for the Nike Air Force 1 'Puerto Rico' 2019. As a result, this product will no longer be available."