Bottom: Art found in the book 'Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia' by anthropologist Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer. But what about when a company ‘borrows’ from a minority culture, without permission or giving back to the community, to generate its own profit? US-owned barramundi company Australis uses First Nations-inspired artwork from Arnhem Land on its logo to market its barramundi (a Gangulu language word for large-scale fish) in the US and Canada. “When those ideas are put onto paintings, that constitutes copyrighted images of a culture, there’s moral property involved in that,” Bullen said. “[Australis is] using the logo as a connector to Australia using First Culture but there’s no connection,” she said.

Source: Huffington Post October 29, 2020 21:22 UTC