Native Files: Digital Copyright and Cultural Ownership
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What is Digital Copyright?

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Can Culture be Owned?

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Complications

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»Digital Divides

Looking Ahead

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References

Works Cited

Anderson, J. E. (2003). The production of Indigenous knowledge in intellectual property law. Doctoral dissertation, University of New South Wales School of Law, Australia. Retrieved March 3, 2008, from Australian Digital Theses Program, http://tinyurl.com/yrehtn

Barlow, J. P. (1994, March). The economy of ideas. Wired Magazine, 2 (3). Retrieved March 10, 2008, from http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas.html

Battiste, M. & Youngblood Henderson, J. [S.] (2000). Protecting Indigenous knowledge and heritage: A global challenge. Saskatoon, SK: Purich Publishing Ltd.

Brown, M.F. (2003). Who owns native culture? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. (2001, April). Summit of the Americas: A vision for connecting Aboriginal Canadians [CD-ROM].

Industry Canada and Canadian Heritage. (2004, May). Interim report on copyright reform. Report of the standing committee on Canadian heritage.


Canadian Intellectual Property Office. (2008). A guide to copyrights. Retrieved March 3, 2008, from http://tinyurl.com/nacx3

Christmas, B. (2007, October 8). Native wisdom. Canadian Business, 80 (20), 121-124. Retrieved March 3, 2008, from Academic Search Premier database.

Creative Commons Canada. (2008). Retrieved March 1, 2008, from http://creativecommons.ca/

Department of Justice Canada. (2008). Copyright Act ( R. S., 1985, c. C-42 ). Retrieved March 3, 2008, from http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-42/

Mackay, E. (2007, December). Copyright and the protection of Indigenous art. Indigenous Law Bulletin, 7 (2), 11-13. Retrieved March 12, 2008, from Aboriginal Art and the Law Resource Page, http://tinyurl.com/2ogpeu

Murray, L. J., & Trosow, S. E. (2007). Canadian copyright: A citizen’s guide. Toronto: Between the Lines.

Overstall, R. (2004). Reconciliation devices: Using the trust as an interface between Aboriginal and state legal orders. In C. Bell & D. Kahane (Eds.), Intercultural dispute resolution in Aboriginal contexts (pp. 196-212). Vancouver: UBC Press.

Shand, P. (2000, February). Can copyright be reconciled with First Nations’ interests in visual arts? Conference paper for Protecting Knowledge: Traditional Resource Rights in the New Millenium. Vancouver, BC: Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. Retrieved March 12, 2008, from http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/Resources/conferences/PK.htm


Statistics Canada. (2008). Aboriginal peoples. Retrieved March 13, 2008, from http://tinyurl.com/2uasy8

Young-Ing, G. (2006, October). Intellectual property rights, legislated protection, sui generis models and ethical access in the transformation of Indigenous traditional knowledge. Doctoral dissertation, The University of British Columbia School of Education, Canada.

 
Images Used

Cross, J. (2008). Inuit talking fish. Retrieved March 15, 2008, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaycross/247126765/ and used in correlation with Creative Commons regulations for Attribution rights.

Hisgett, T. (2008). Haida sculpture: Vancouver airport. Depicts The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, The Jade Canoe, by Bill Reid. Retrieved March 15, 2008, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/hisgett/495264867/ and used in correlation with Creative Commons regulations for Attribution rights.

Hughes, C. M. (2008). Native Files. Created for use on this site. (See note below.)

krug, k. (2008). UBC Totem image 1. Retrieved March 15, 2008, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/10888888/ and used in correlation with Creative Commons regulations for Attribution rights.

krug, k. (2008). UBC Totem image 2. Retrieved March 15, 2008, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/10888738/ and used in correlation with Creative Commons regulations for Attribution rights.

NOTE: The banner image was hand-painted and photographed by C. M. Hughes for use on this site. The image combines separated elements identified online only as “Northwest Coast Indian Styles,” and purposely blurs design distinctions that might remain discrete to an Aboriginal artist. Hughes‘s inclusion of the copyright symbol likewise touches off what barrister Colin Golvan calls the “bastardization of Aboriginal art” (Brown, 2003, p. 89). Clouding these elements is a parody of appropriation, but it is also acknowledged as a form of appropriation.



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LIBR 500: Foundations of Information Technology
School of Library, Archival and Information Studies
University of British Columbia
Erin Abler | March 2008