Indigenous intellectual property 1998 and 2006, the Ngati Toa iwi attempted to trademark the Ka Mate haka and to forbid its use by commercial organisations without their permission. The Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand turned their claim down in 2006, since "Ka Mate" had achieved wide recognition in New Zealand and abroad as representing New Zealand as a whole and not a particular trader. In 2009, as a part of a wider settlement of grievances, the New Zealand government agreed to: However, a survey of nineteenth-century New Zealand newspapers found Ka Mate was used by tribes from other parts of New Zealand,
Proposed directive on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights Proposed directive on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights The European Union (EU) directive on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights (2005/0127/COD) was a proposal from the European Commission for a directive aimed "to supplement Directive 2004/48/EC of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (Civil enforcement)" ("Source: Justification for the proposal, COM(2005) 276 final, July 12, 2005"). The directive was proposed on July 12, 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities. Being the second directive on the enforcement of "intellectual property rights", it is commonly