Local Contexts is an initiative to support Native, First Nations, Aboriginal, and Indigenous communities in the management of their intellectual property and cultural heritage specifically within the digital environment. Local Contexts provides legal, extra-legal, and educational strategies for navigating copyright law and the public domain status of this valuable cultural […]
aboriginal • cultural heritage • digital collections • digital environments • First Nations • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous communities • intellectual property • local contextsFracturing the Skeleton of Principle: Australian Law, Aboriginal Law, and Digital Technology
Aboriginal people in Australia today are constructing extremely diverse cultures. Increasingly, these cultures involve some aspect of digital technologies – videos, DVDs, CDs, digital photos, audiofiles etc. This paper is part of a wider project looking at how emerging Aboriginal digital environments are affecting the intergenerational transmission of traditional culture. […]
2004 • aboriginal • digital environments • impact of | ICTs • traditional culture • transmission