South America: South American Indians To Receive Royalties From Potato Sales

South America: South American Indians To Receive Royalties From Potato Sales   The UN’s Intellectual Property Tribunal today ruled that South American Indians should receive 1% of the profits from potato sales worldwide, ‘in recognition of the fact that potatoes as we know them are effectively an indigenous creation’.   The head of the tribunal, Dr. Desiree Dauphinoise, said that tribal peoples in Peru were the first cultivators of potatoes between 3000 and 2000 BC, and ‘as creators of the...

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