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Matthew Rimmer

‘The river keeps us alive, we keep the river alive’: new documentary captures the Kimberley and its custodians theguardian.com/film/2025/may/
ABC’s The Kimberley showcases rare footage by a crew working alongside Indigenous rangers, traditional owners and scientists. #IndigenousIP #rangers #auspol #rivers #film

The Guardian · ‘The river keeps us alive, we keep the river alive’: new documentary captures the Kimberley and its custodiansBy Ima Caldwell
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Matthew Rimmer

Canadian mining company Vista Gold has been fined $160,000 after pleading guilty to damaging a sacred site near Katherine in the Northern Territory.
abc.net.au/news/2025-05-14/vis
The NT's sacred sites authority took action against the company after its own shareholder release revealed the illegal exploration drilling.
In his sentencing remarks, Acting Judge Steven Ledek said the unlawful drilling was motivated by profit.
#auspol #auslaw #IndigenousIP

ABC News · Vista Gold fined $160,000 for damaging sacred site in illegal drilling near KatherineBy Oliver Chaseling
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It will be interesting to see whether the New Australian Parliament will contemplate the implementation of the WIPO Treaty of Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge

foreignminister.gov.au/ministe

Foreign Affairs Minister Senator Penny Wong made a memorable speech about the Treaty last year: 'Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have been innovators, inventors and knowledge-holders for over 65,000 years.

All across this land, the vibrant history of Australia's First Nations peoples tells the story of an ancient culture that continues today.

Whether it is firestick farming used to sustainably manage Country, or the engineering of great stone fish traps across rivers and seas.

Whether it was the practices of cultivating crops over tens of thousands of years, or the discovery and use of potent natural medicines.

That unbroken line of innovation has continued to this day, despite what was wrought by the fiction of terra nullius.

The traditional knowledge of Australia's First Peoples transformed this land.

Made it liveable, made it home.

That knowledge deserves international recognition.

This treaty does just that.'

#IndigenousIP#WIPO#geneticresources
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The Reserve Bank of Australia has faced a number of complaints in the past over misappropriation of Indigenous IP (from Malangi, Yumbulul, and the Unaipon family). How will the Bank fare this time round - as it commissions a new design for the $5 dollar note?

'The Reserve Bank of Australia has opened submissions for an artwork to honour the “enduring emotional, spiritual and physical connection” of First Nations people to the land, seas and waters dating back thousands of years...

Australian bank notes and coins have borne images or engravings of Indigenous peoples, plants and animals since the 19th century, when the country still used pound sterling.

The £1 banknote, first issued in June 1923, was a homage to the artist E Phillips Fox’s Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay, which depicted then Lt James Cook and Joseph Banks’ point of first contact – with Gweagal warriors and their spears armed resistance to the encroachment of territory.

In 1966, however, the artwork on the new A$1 note marked the first Aboriginal copyright dispute, after the Reserve Bank failed to seek permission from Arnhem Land artist David Malangi when it reproduced his work on the note. He was later paid $1,000, a medallion and a fishing kit.

The $2 coin has depicted the image of Gwoya Tjungurrayi, sometimes referred to as “One Pound Jimmy”, since 1988. Tjungurrayi survived one of Australia’s last recorded frontier massacres in 1928 where 60 men, women and children were murdered in the Northern Territory.

In 1995, the RBA released the $5o note, which depicted the author, explorer and inventor David Unaipon, from the Ngarrindgerri nation of present day South Australia.

Entries for the redesign close in April.'
theguardian.com/australia-news #IndigenousIP #copyright #auspol #auslaw

The Guardian · Australia’s new $5 note to reflect First Nations connection to country instead of King CharlesBy Sarah Collard
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Indigenous leaders celebrate as court rejects appeal in landmark Yunupingu compensation case theguardian.com/australia-news

High court upholds ruling against commonwealth that Gumatj clan’s land was not acquired ‘on just terms’, in case initiated by renowned land rights activist

The Guardian · Indigenous leaders celebrate as court rejects appeal in landmark Yunupingu compensation caseBy Guardian staff reporter
#nativetitle#IndigenousIP#auslaw
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'Until the late 1980s Indigenous art was being ripped off left right and centre. It was open slather. First at the cheap end of the market on T-shirts and then on fancy carpets made in Vietnam. The rip-off merchants maintained black artists were just painting old patterns, so their work was for the taking.

The lawyer who proved them wrong was Colin Golvan AM, and his new book shares historical stories of Indigenous copyright infringement and his experiences travelling around, often to remote communities, to work with artists to fight for their rights.

Bronwyn Bancroft is one of Australia's most recognised First Nation artists and when she stumbled across the theft of her work, Colin took up the legal fight and they settled out of court. Bronwyn now mentors other Aboriginal artists to assert their copyright.' abc.net.au/listen/programs/lat #IndigenousIP #auslaw #auspol

ABC listen · The great Australian art theft - ABC listenUntil the late 1980s Indigenous art was being ripped off left right and centre. It was open slather. First at the cheap end of the market on T-shirts and then on fancy carpets made in Vietnam. The rip-off merchants maintained black artists were just painting old patterns, so their work was for the taking.  The lawyer who proved them wrong was Colin Golvan AM, and his new book shares historical stories of Indigenous copyright infringement and his experiences travelling around, often to remote communities, to work with artists to fight for their rights.  Bronwyn Bancroft is one of Australia's most recognised First Nation artists and when she stumbled across the theft of her work, Colin took up the legal fight and they settled out of court. Bronwyn now mentors other Aboriginal artists to assert their copyright. Guests: Colin Golvan AM is a lawyer, QC and author of new book, Protecting Indigenous Art Bronwyn Bancroft AM is a Bundjalung woman, artist and author of 45 books
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The morality (and patentability) of inventions derived by immoral means (T 2510/18)
Rose Hughes
ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/10/
#biodiscovery #patent #EUlaw #IndigenousIP
'The invention arose from research by The Institute for Development Research (IRD) into traditional antimalarial remedies used by indigenous communities in French Guiana. A survey of these communities, involving interviews with 117 Indigenous people, identified 45 remedies using 27 different plant species, including bitter ash. The researchers focused on bitter ash to subsequently identify and extract the anti-malaria compound, Simalikalactone E.'

The IPKatThe morality (and patentability) of inventions derived by immoral means (T 2510/18)The IPKat blog reports on copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and privacy/confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.
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Matthew Rimmer

Jamie Oliver pulls children’s book from shelves after criticism for ‘stereotyping’ Indigenous Australians theguardian.com/food/2024/nov/

Billy and the Epic Escape to be withdrawn worldwide after First Nations groups say fantasy novel trivialises complex and painful histories. #IndigenousIP #auslaw #auspol

The Guardian · Jamie Oliver pulls children’s book from shelves after criticism for ‘stereotyping’ Indigenous AustraliansBy Kelly Burke
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Matthew Rimmer

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing Optus alleging it engaged in unconscionable conduct when selling phone products to vulnerable customers. abc.net.au/news/2024-10-31/acc

Many were First Nations customers from remote and regional areas, as well as customers living with disabilities or in disadvantage.

The ACCC claims Optus sold goods and services to hundreds of consumers that they “often did not want or need”.

The telecommunications company is accused of then pursuing consumers for debts that resulted from those sales. #auslaw #auspol #consumerlaw #telcos #IndigenousIP

ABC News · ACCC suing Optus alleging it engaged in unconscionable conduct when selling phone products to vulnerable customersBy Michael Atkin
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