Creative Equity Toolkit

First Nations Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Arts

Protocols For Using First Nations Cultural And Intellectual Property In The Arts. A guide endorsing the rights of Indigenous people to their cultural heritage and in support of Indigenous creative practice and self-determination.

How did rock music get so white?

Professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and Slate music critic Jack Hamilton interviewed on how rock and roll changed from an inter-racial expression to the soundtrack of whiteness.

‘Pat Boone covering Little Richard is probably the most egregious example of this. “But he was able to get his music played on radio stations that wouldn't play the black originators of that music and he was someone who almost objectively made much worse versions of that than the originals.”’

Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) fact sheet and comic

This fact sheet and comic is designed to provide education about copyright issues and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights in an accessible way. It is aimed at artists and audiences alike.