All guides: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resources: Indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights

Video: Aboriginal Artist Bibi Barba takes on Polish Hotel in Landmark Infringement Case

Aboriginal artist Bibi Barba discovered two of her artworks from her Desert Flowers series were being used by an interior designer in a Polish Hotel without her permission.

Aboriginal Artist Bibi Barba takes on Polish Hotel in Landmark Infringement Case (2:48 mins) by CopyrightAgency (YouTube)

Guidelines and protocols

Copyright basics: Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights
What is Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP)?
Insight video series: Indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights
First Nations artists talk about their experiences with fake art and the effect it has on their communities. Filmed during the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair in August 2024.
Australia Council for the Arts. Protocols for using First Nations Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Arts
This guide provides protocols to prevent the misuse of tangible and intangible First Nations cultural heritage, which are not specifically protected under Australian copyright law. The protocols create pathways for collaborations and creations of new Indigenous works.
Screen Australia. Pathways & protocols: a filmmaker’s guide to working with Indigenous people, culture and concepts
Published by Screen Australia and researched and written by lawyer Terri Janke. The handbook provides advice about the ethical and legal issues involved in transferring Indigenous cultural material to the screen.
Terri Janke and Company. Who owns Indigenous languages? Indigenous Language Materials and Copyright
Terri Janke and Adam Broughton provide a brief read of information on language materials and copyright as part of the 2019 United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages.

True Tracks by Terri Janke
What Indigenous materials and knowledge are you using? How will your project affect and involve Indigenous communities? Are you sharing your profits with those communities? True Tracks paves the way for respectful and ethical engagement with Indigenous cultures. Meriam/Wuthathi lawyer Dr. Terri Janke uses real cases and stories to: enable Indigenous peoples to practice and strengthen their cultural life; and, inform people working in art, architecture, film, publishing, dance, science and tourism.

Book cover attribution

Janke, T. (2022). True tracks: Respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture. NewSouth Publishing. Cover design Debra Billson. All rights reserved. Cover artwork Terri – Butterfly Flowers Dreaming, 2020, by Bibi Barba. © Bibi Barba/Copyright Agency, 2021.

Library subject guides

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resources

Video: Aboriginal Artist Bibi Barba takes on Polish Hotel in Landmark Infringement Case

Guidelines and protocols

Book cover attribution