Ensuring Respect for Indigenous Cultures

The New the Olympic Museum case, the Aboriginal artists, Zealand government stepped in to request Fiat to as authors of their artistic works, were able either have the haka in the commercial performed to rely on copyright law and bring a claim for by a Māori group or for the actresses to perform a infringement; in the haka case, the Māori had no haka composed for women.3 The Italian company legal [...] The proposed model of protection a woodcarver from the Wolf clan of the Tahltan comes within the scope of the work carried out Nation, living in British Columbia, Canada, puts by the World Intellectual Property Organization it: “Our artwork is one of the last things that (WIPO), the UN agency in charge of IP matters. [...] Specifically, Australia, the right of attribution includes the the author has the right to preserve the right against false attribution.46 In the United intended meaning of their work and to object States, that right is phrased as the right to to any addition, deletion, alteration, adaptation “prevent the use of one’s name on any work (including translation), destruction or other the author did no [...] The court, of granting the community any direct copyright in however, dismissed the suit based on its finding the painting; however, some argue that it opened that Yumbulul was the sole owner of copyright the door to the possibility of extending the notion in the Morning Star Pole, and had consented to of authorship to include communal authorship.112 the use by granting the Reserve Bank a licence [...] Eventually, due to a change in government, the With the passing of the act, the Government of bill did not proceed to law.139 In 2006, the Federal New Zealand acknowledges the importance of the Attorney General confirmed the government’s haka to Ngāti Toa.