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Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property

Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) refers to the rights of Australia’s First Nations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) peoples to their cultural heritage. Heritage comprises all objects, sites and knowledge, the nature or use of which has been transmitted or continues to be transmitted from generation to generation, and which is regarded as pertaining to a particular Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander group or their territory. The heritage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is a living one and includes objects, knowledge, language, literary, artistic, and performance works which may be created in the future based on that heritage.

Heritage includes:

(a) literary, performing, and artistic works (including paintings, rock art, songs, music, dances, stories, ceremonies, symbols, languages, and designs);

(b) scientific, agricultural, technical and ecological knowledge (such as knowledge about Country, sacred sites, plants, and animals and how to look after them or use them, knowledge of weather patterns, knowledge of kinship systems);

(c) cultural practices and ways of communicating culture (such as making bush medicine, hunting, etc.);

(d) all items of movable cultural property (including artefacts);

(e) Ancestral remains;

(f) immovable cultural property (including sacred and historically significant sites and burial grounds); and

(g) documentation of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples’ heritage in archives, film, photographs, video, or sound recording and all forms of media.

DeadlyScience® acknowledges that the management of Indigenous cultural knowledge based on conventional western parameters and laws has failed to fully or appropriately take into account the intangible and tangible cultural and heritage significance of these items for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

DeadlyScience® acknowledges our collective, individual and moral responsibilities to ensure that management and access to these intellectual properties is culturally informed and respectful. This includes recognition and protection of the ongoing, communal nature of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) rights.

ICIP Rights Include:

To be consulted about how others use your Indigenous Knowledge.
To own, manage and control your intellectual property.
To be recognised as the primary guardians and interpreters of your culture.
To give or withhold consent around the use of your intellectual property.
To make self determined decisions.
To be recognised as the primary guardians and interpreters of your culture.
To authorise or refuse to authorise the commercial use of your ICIP.
To be given full and proper attribution for sharing your cultural heritage.
To have self determination over the recording of Indigenous Cultural Expressions.


DeadlyScience® is committed to respecting the ICIP rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.