Correcting Course: Rebalancing Copyright for Libraries in the National and International Arena
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jane Anderson
Description
Explores issues of interpretation of fair use, historical collection of material, intellectual property and copyright, and Indigenous people as new user groups.
Social Semiotics, vol. 15, no. 1, Charged Crossings: Cultural Studies of Law, April 2005, pp. 59-80
Description
Discusses how past colonial laws have harmed Aboriginal peoples and offers alternative forms of justice to redress the effects of those policies and practices.
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Shows how processes and restrictions of government affected the inclusion/exclusion of certain information based on interviews of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people who worked for the Commission.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 4, International Indigenous Education, Summer, 2005
Description
Discussion of an international initiative to control access to indigenous knowledge, aimed at protecting sacred and secret knowledge and ensuring proper compensation for intellectual property which is shared.
Honour Among Nations? Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous People
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Bradford W. Morse
Description
Comments on the value of treaty making for both parties.
Chapter 2 from Honour Among Nations? Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous People edited by Kathryn Shain, Marcia Langton, Maureen Tehan, Lisa Palmer.
Argues that no other racial group in Australia has suffered as much as the Indigenous Australians and the university experience has been, for many, one of discrimination, racism, and paternalism.
The Australian Feminist Law Journal, vol. 22, 2005, pp. 67-88
Description
Investigates the usefulness of postcolonial theory in response to claims made by members of the Stolen Generations and the law's response to the silence of the white nation.
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, 2005, pp. 117-157
Description
Author compares the Australian High Court's unwillingness to accommodate claims of sovereignty or self-government with those of other common law countries, namely United States and Canada.
Law and History Review, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 95-131
Description
Explains how the concept of terra nullius (empty land) once underway was very difficult to reverse, while in North America the opposite occurred where Aboriginal people were recognized as owners of the land.