It’s a bit dumb that the govt doesn’t just make the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags public domain
Comment on Canvas (fedi's r/place) starts in 12 days, here's the Australia flag plans this year!
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I went to check out the status of the Torres Straight Island flag and ended in going down a bit of a rabbit hole in regards to the Australian Aboriginal flag:
The flag’s current legal status was debated in an Australian Senate estimates committee in mid‑February 2022, when it was also revealed that the Morrison government had paid $13.75m to Thomas to assume copyright, and also paid $6.3m to two non-Indigenous businesses which held licences to use the flag. These companies are WAM Clothing, which received $5.2m, and Wooster Holdings, which was paid $1.1m. Interests in both companies are held by Gold Coast businessman Ben Wooster, former director of Birubi Art (which was fined $2.3m in 2018 for selling fake Aboriginal art).
eatham@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Balthazar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Maybe it’s like the GPL: using copyright to ensure it isn’t misused?
FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Is Carroll & Richardson Flagworld a indigenous business? As far as I know they hold the exclusive licence to manufacture the Aboriginal Flag in actual flag form and I wonder why they’re not mentioned