Lack of Political Will or Academic Inertia?

See, eg: Golvan Colin , ‘Aboriginal Art and Copyright: The Case for Johnny Bulun Bulun’ (1989) 10 European Intellectual Property Review; Golvan Colin , ‘Copyright and Aboriginal Artistry’ (1989) 2 Intellectual Property; Gray Stephen , ‘Aboriginal Designs and Copyright: Can the Australian Common Law Expand to Meet Aboriginal Demands?’ (1991) 9(4) Copyright Reporter; Gray Stephen , ‘Wheeling, Dealing and Deconstruction: Aboriginal Art and the Land Post-Mabo’ (1993) 3(63) Aboriginal Law Bulletin <austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AboriginalLB/1993/31.html> at 18 August 2009; Gray Stephen , ‘Enlightenment or Dreaming? Attempting to Reconcile Aboriginal Art and European law’ (1995) 2 Arts & Entertainment Law Review; Janke Terri , Our Culture: Our Future: Report on Australian Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights (1999).

Gray (1993), above n 1.

Fitzgerald Brian , ‘Intellectual Capital and Law in the Digital Environment’ (2001) 5 Southern Cross University Law Review, 210.

See, eg: Marika Wandjuk , ‘Copyright on Aboriginal Art’ (1976) February Aboriginal News, 7; Golvan Colin , ‘Aboriginal Art and the Protection of Indigenous Cultural Rights’ (1992) 7 European Intellectual Property Review, 230; Muecke Stephen , ‘Body, Inscription, Epistemology: Knowing Aboriginal Texts’ in Nelson Emmanuel (ed) Connections: Essays on Black Literatures (1988), 46–7; Maddock Kenneth , ‘Copyright and Traditional Designs – An Aboriginal Dilemma (1988) 2 Aboriginal Law Bulletin, 8; Martin Margaret , ‘What's in a Painting? The Cultural Harm of Unauthorised Reproduction: Milpurrurru & Ors v Indofurn Pty Ltd & Ors’ (1995) 17 Sydney Law Review, 593.

See, eg, Rimmer Matthew , ‘Four Stories about Copyright Law and Appropriate Art’ (1998) 3(4) Media and Arts Law Review, 190.

Factor Brenda , ‘Marketing an Australian Identity’ in Marcus Julie (ed) Picturing the ‘Primitif’: Images of Racing in Daily Life (2000), 188.

Milpurrurru & Others v Indofurn Pty Ltd (1994) 30 FCR 240; (1994)120 ALR 659; (1995) AIPC 91.

Janke Terri , ‘Berne, Baby, Berne: The Berne Convention, Moral Rights and Indigenous Peoples Cultural Rights’ (2001) 14 Indigenous Law Bulletin, 16.

Banks Cate , ‘The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same: The New Moral Rights Legislation and Indigenous Creators’ (2000) 9 (2) Griffith Law Review, 344; Githaiga Joseph , ‘Intellectual Property Law and the Protection of Indigenous Folklore and Knowledge’ (1998) 13 Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law [26] <austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MurUEJL/1998/13.html> at 18 August 2009.

Golvan Colin , ‘Aboriginal Art and the Public Domain’ (1998) 9 (1) Journal of Law and Information Science 123; Gray Stephen , ‘In Black and White or Beyond the Pale? The “Authenticity” Debate and Protection for Aboriginal Culture’ (2001) 15 The Australian Feminist Law Journal, 106; Morris Scot , ‘The Protection of Folklore: The Australian Experience’ (1998) 58 Intellectual Property in Asia and the Pacific 29.

Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) s 10.

Yumbulul v Reserve Bank of Australia (1991) 21 IPR 481.

(1991) 21 IPR 481 [490] ( French J ).

(1998) 41 IPR 513.

Bulun Bulun v R & T Textiles (1998) 41 IPR 513 [525] ( Von Doussa J ).

Ibid [531] ( Von Doussa J ).

[1969] RPC 41 (Ch); (1976) 29 FLR 233; (1977) 14 ALR 71.

Gray Stephen , ‘Aboriginal Designs and Copyright: Can the Australian Common Law expand to meet Aboriginal demands?’ in Turner Neville J & Williams Pam The Happy Couple: Law & Literature (1994), 257–8.

Mabo & Others v Queensland (no 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1.

‘The nature and incidents of native title must be ascertained as a matter of fact by reference to those laws and customs’ in Mabo v Queensland (no 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1 [58] ( Brennan J ).

Gray , above n 18, 246.

See, eg, Janke , above n 1, xxi, xxxvi; Altman Jon , The Aboriginal Arts and Crafts Industry: Report of the Review Committee (1989), 296; Attorney-General Department , Issues Paper, Stopping the Rip-Offs: Intellectual Property Protection for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (1994), 8; Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Environment Committee , Indigenous Art: Securing the Future — Inquiry into Australia's Indigenous Visual Arts and Crafts Sector (2007), Recommendation 25, xiv.

Janke Terri , ‘Respecting Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights’ (1999) University of New South Wales Law Journal, 636–7; Janke , above n 1, xxxvi–xxxviii.

Golvan , above n 4, 230.

Gray (1993), above n 1.

Vann Vicki J , ‘Copyright By Way of Fiduciary Obligation – Finding a Way to Protect Aboriginal Artworks’ (2000) 5(1) Media & Arts Law Review, 21.

Liberal Party of Australia , The Howard Government: Putting Australia's Interests First: Election 2001 — Arts for All (2001) in Anderson Jane , ‘The Politics of Indigenous Knowledge’ (2004) 27(3) University of New South Wales Law Journal, 597.

Anderson Jane , ‘Indigenous Communal Moral Rights: The Utility of an Ineffective Law’ (2004) 15 Indigenous Law Bulletin.

Ibid.

Bowrey Kathy , ‘Alternative Intellectual Property? Indigenous Protocols, Copyleft and New Juridifications of Customary Practices’ (2006) 6 Macquarie Law Journal, 93.

Ibid 68.

Jopson Debra , ‘Misused Spirits of Creation Returned to Proper Custodians’ Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney), 7 March 2001, 7.