Principles and Protocols:
1. Respect: "The rights of Indigenous people to own and control their heritage, including Indigenous images, designs, stories and other cultural expressions, should be respected."
http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/32368/Visual_arts_protocol_guide.pdf
When organising an event, exhibition or festival of local, state or national significant it is respectful to invite representatives of the traditional owners of that land to attend and give a welcome address. It is also respectful of other official speakers/attendees to acknowledge the land and its traditional owners. This would refer to any use of motifs, symbols and methods from or relating to the Indigenous Australians culture. References to their dream time, elders or their land (i.e Uluru) needs to be treated with utmost respect.
2. Recognition and protection
The Indigenous Australians visual artists own copyright in his or her artwork. This means that he or she can control the reproduction and termination of the artwork. Such rights apply to all artists and are granted under the national copyright law. This protects any interpretation or alterations to traditional or recent indigenous artwork. Respect also goes hand in hand with understanding boundaries and rights.
Moral Rights and Issues
The Indigenous Australians visual artists own copyright in his or her artwork. This means that he or she can control the reproduction and termination of the artwork. Such rights apply to all artists and are granted under the national copyright law. This protects any interpretation or alterations to traditional or recent indigenous artwork. Respect also goes hand in hand with understanding boundaries and rights.
Moral Rights and Issues
The Moral Rights Amendments to the
Copyright Act was introduced in December
2000. It provided some new ways to
challenge any inappropriate treatment of
Indigenous artworks.
The new law provides the following rights to artists; The right to be attributed as the artist (Artist can require their names to be clearly and prominently produced alongside with all and any reproductions of the artists work), the right not to have work falsely attributed to another artist (Artist can take action against parties who falsely attribute others as the artists of their work), the right of integrity (Artist can take action against parties who subject their works to inappropriate treatment i.e anything the results to material distortion, destruction of the work, public harm to the artist reputation, reproducing in poor quality. The artist always has moral rights to his or hers artwork.
Bibliography:
http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/32368/Visual_arts_protocol_guide.pdf
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