Our experienced solicitors can negotiate and draft contracts and agreements, advise on commercial issues and represent clients’ interests in disputes involving Indigenous cultural and intellectual property.

Our cultural advisory skills and expertise aim to inform local, national and international debate on Indigenous cultural and IP issues through communities, academia, government, the NGO sector and the corporate sector generally.

We can assist you with services including:

• Business law: advice & services in relation to business structure, business names and incorporation and employer/employee contracts.
  
  
• IP law: IP management plans and advice on copyright, chain of title, trade marks, passing off, domain names, confidentiality & trade secrets and Trade Practice Act issues.
  
  
• Commercial agreements: contracts for licensing & distributing visual arts, publishing music & literature, films and manufacturing.
  
  
• Indigenous issues education: public speaking, lecturing, training and writing on the perspectives of and impacts on Indigenous people of intellectual property, privacy and other legal issues.
  
  
• Indigenous cultural and IP: advice, protocols, models & agreements for dealing with museum repatriation issues, heritage sites, arts, language use and recording; traditional knowledge of plants & animals and its use in bio-prospecting, publishing and other domains; documentation & recording of heritage agreements.
  
  
• Cultural knowledge management: advice on managing Indigenous information in organisations, including management models, protocols & recommendations.
  
  
• Indigenous review: researching, writing & documenting reports & government submissions into key issues affecting Indigenous communities eg on the protection of traditional knowledge or on resale royalties.
  
  
• Indigenous policy and legislation: advice & drafting model legislation, advice on policy development and implementation.
  
  
• Legal advocacy: dispute resolution, including litigation & alternative dispute resolution, involving letters of demand or settling of issues

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