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- The Cambridge Legal History of Australia
- The Cambridge Legal History of Australia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors
- Maps
- 1 Editors’ Introduction
- I Cultures of Law
- II Public Authority
- III Public Authorities in Encounter
- IV Land and Environment
- V Social Organisation
- VI Social Ordering
- 25 Criminal Law and the Administration of Justice in Early New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land
- 26 Criminal Justice after the Convicts: A History of the Long Twentieth Century
- 27 Indigenous Peoples and Settler Criminal Law
- 28 Civil Wrongs
- 29 Labour Law
- 30 Place and Race in Australian Copyright Law: May Gibbs’s and Albert Namatjira’s Copyright
- VII Reckonings
- Index
30 - Place and Race in Australian Copyright Law: May Gibbs’s and Albert Namatjira’s Copyright
from VI - Social Ordering
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2022
- The Cambridge Legal History of Australia
- The Cambridge Legal History of Australia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors
- Maps
- 1 Editors’ Introduction
- I Cultures of Law
- II Public Authority
- III Public Authorities in Encounter
- IV Land and Environment
- V Social Organisation
- VI Social Ordering
- 25 Criminal Law and the Administration of Justice in Early New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land
- 26 Criminal Justice after the Convicts: A History of the Long Twentieth Century
- 27 Indigenous Peoples and Settler Criminal Law
- 28 Civil Wrongs
- 29 Labour Law
- 30 Place and Race in Australian Copyright Law: May Gibbs’s and Albert Namatjira’s Copyright
- VII Reckonings
- Index
Summary
Copyright is a body of law that impacts upon the production and circulation of commodities that helped define Australian culture. The chapter provides an overview of Imperial copyright laws that conferred rights on British subjects living in British dominions. Australian colonial copyright laws and the first Federal law are then discussed in light of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886). Both before and after Federation, Australian copyright laws remained nested within the framework of Empire, until the passing of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). How the placement of Australian law within Empire impacted upon Australian creators is explored in relation to the artist and illustrator, May Gibbs (1877-1965). Race is more difficult to account for in Australian copyright history. How Protection and Assimilation areas laws restricted artistic expression and the enjoyment of copyright is explored with reference to Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira (1901-1959).
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- The Cambridge Legal History of Australia , pp. 693 - 718Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022