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US sportswear giant Nike said Tuesday it was withdrawing its latest shoe after Nike Air Max Thea Womens Panama’s indigenous Guna community accused it of “pirating” a Nike Air Max 97 Mujer protected traditional design.Lawyers for the Guna said the Nike Air Presto Mujer special-edition Air Force 1 model shoe sports a traditional “mola” design without their permission, flouting their intellectual property rights.They had demanded the company pull Nike Air Max 270 Mujer out of a planned June 6 launch of Nike Air Max 95 Femme the $100 shoe.We're not looking to fight Nike Air Max 90 Mujer because...we want them to recognize the fact that the "mola" appearing on Nike trainers belongs to the Guna people.After being contacted by AFP, a Nike spokesperson said: “We apologize for the inaccurate representation of the design origin for the Nike Air Force 1 ‘Puerto Rico’ 2019. As a result, this product will no longer be available.”

Guna lawyer Aresio Valiente told AFP the indigenous people were not just seeking the product’s withdrawal, but also damages as the shoe “is part of the spirituality of the Guna people.”“So Nike Air Max 1 Dam the company has to compensate us because it was an illegal Nike Air Max 2017 Mujer copy of our designs,” Valiente said, adding that they had “already sent a note of protest” to Nike.Industry website Sneaker News reported that Nike said the design was a tribute to Adidas ZX Flux Mujer Puerto Rico and featured a graphic Nike Air Max 720 Femme representing the native Coqui frog.However, Nike Air Max 97 Womens 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 was “not the only one in the world. Thousands of designs and the ancestral knowledge of indigenous people are being pirated by multinational companies.”

The Guna people live in communities in Panama and Colombia. Most Guna live in Kuna Yala, also known as the San Blas islands, off the Caribbean coast of Panama. www.romanvavrik.cz Environmentalists say the low-lying islands are being threatened Adidas ZX 850 Womens 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 Adidas Superstar Dámské of social anthropology at Barcelona University who has been studying the Guna for www.pretoralarm.se nearly two decades.There are “more and more cases” worldwide in which indigenous people are reporting theft of their 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.”