Aboriginal Carpet Case

Lead by respected aboriginal artist chris edwards simon robinson director of the rug collection and wirriimbi designs hosted a hands on cultural exchange craft workshop which inspired the imagination and creativity of aboriginal youth and their families to convey their important cultural stories through the non written language of visual.

Aboriginal carpet case. It involved an australian company which had reproduced woollen carpets with the unauthorised artwork of eight aboriginal artists including a yalangbara based print by banduk marika djanda and the sacred waterhole. The salesperson was interested in knowing whether the aboriginal carpets for sale in the store were authentic. The artists were all very prominent. After a 14 day trial three aboriginal artists and the estates of five other deceased aboriginal artists were awarded damages totalling 188 640 for infringements of their copyright.

The carpets case a landmark in the legal protection of aboriginal art occurred in 1994. According to evidence given to the court these publications were at the vietnamese carpet factory when a director of beechrow first visited it. Ken wyatt calls for law change to protect aboriginal artists from carpetbaggers this article is more than 7 months old we do have to protect a unique art style minister for indigenous. Of aboriginal artworks produced by the australian national gallery and a calendar produced by the australian informa tion service.