Suit says director used Q’orianka Kilcher’s features without permission after seeing her in advert for The New World. #IndigenousIP #publicityrights #personalityrights #performersrights
Walking for truth: Travis Lovett’s 500km journey to remind Albanese of his promise to create a First Nations truth-telling commission https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/19/walking-for-truth-travis-lovetts-500km-journey-albanese-first-nations-truth-telling-commission-ntwnfb
Former Yoorrook justice commissioner says he wants to start a national discussion on a subject that is often misunderstood by the wider public
'Alongside hits by The Beatles and Harry Styles, the soundtrack to sci-fi blockbuster Project Hail Mary includes a powerful version of the waiata 'Pō Atarau', a song originally written in te reo Māori which became a global hit in English as 'Now is the Hour'.
Erima Maewa Kaihau (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Te Ata) — the woman who first penned its vocal melody and original te reo lyrics back in the mid-1910s — didn't receive the attribution or payment she deserved for her song's success, says Austin Haynes.
"It's a real shame that she has lain forgotten for such a long time, and that the song has become detached from her own name and kōrero, her own story," he tells RNZ's Nights.' https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/finally-recognising-her-mana-the-maori-composer-whose-110-year-old-song-features-in-project-hail #music #copyright #IndigenousIP #Nzlaw #HailMary
'APYACC says it suffered a significant financial loss as a result of The Australian’s reporting, including a downturn in sales. And while their state funding was reinstated last year, the collective believes their expulsion from the Indigenous Art Code, as a result of the allegations, has adversely affected their federal funding applications in the years since.
In a defamation suit lodged with South Australia’s supreme court, the collective is suing Nationwide News, publisher of The Australian newspaper, for $4.4m: a figure that includes the loss of the NGA sale, which they put at $1,397,000, and their lost federal funding, which they estimated at $1.07m.' https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2026/apr/11/apy-lands-indigenous-australian-art-exhibition-nga-ngura-pulka-lawsuit #IndigenousIP #defamation #auslaw #auspol #art #media

Ngura Puḻka at the National Gallery of Australia is a landmark exhibition of 30 paintings by Indigenous artists in the APY Arts Centre Collective, which was investigated over claims white workers had interfered with black art