Issues between international trade and culture have existed since the end of World War I, when European countries introduced screen quotas to limit the effects of the ever-rising surge of films from the US. When states protect their culture-related industries they usually do so claiming the need...

In Australia, as with many countries, Aboriginal culture is not comprehensively protected. Rather protection is fragmented between the Western systems of intellectual property, native title and cultural heritage law. This paper addresses the shortcomings of these Western classifications with...