AC9AMA8E02 Years 7 to 8 The Arts

Content descriptor investigate the diversity of First Nations Australians’ media arts works and practices, considering culturally responsive approaches to Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights

Elaborations

• • Elaboration exploring how knowledge of the ways protocols can be used to protect Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights can help students make ethical choices about how they use content for media arts works; for example, by asking questions such as, “Who created these images, sounds, texts?”, “May I use these ideas, and do I need permission to do so?”
• • Elaboration investigating an example of cultural appropriation where it has been found that First Nations Australian Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights have been denied, and identifying how this situation could have been approached respectfully; for example, a situation where a media artist used images or music in a short film that carries cultural knowledge without permission from the knowledge holders
• • Elaboration investigating choices First Nations Australian media artists make about use of technical and symbolic elements, use of story principles, construction of representations and relationships they seek to establish with audiences, respecting Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights
• • Elaboration collaboratively constructing a set of guidelines to promote safe, ethical, legal and responsible media use; for example, guidelines that will assist decision-making about whether or not ideas from existing cultural expressions can be used when developing a new work
• • Elaboration recognising how to select and use historical materials that accurately communicate First Nations Australians’ perspectives for including in media arts works, such as their resilience in response to the impacts of colonisation
• • Elaboration investigating issues relating to use of First Nations Australian languages or stories in lyrics and songs for screen-based works; for example, considering case studies that illustrate protocols relating to Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights