Resale royalties and wills

CAL’s Indigenous Communications Coordinator, Trish Adjei recently travelled to central Australia with the Arts Law Centre of Australia.

Trish spent one week in the communities at Hermannsburg, Haasts Bluff and Papunya – north-west of Alice Springs. While she was there, she worked with the Arts Law Centre to run workshops for artists on drafting wills, a project supported by CAL’s Cultural Fund.  Trish noted that they were able to use the visual artists resale royalty scheme as a practical example of the benefits of writing a will – because writing a will means that the artist decides who should receive the royalties after their passing.

Following this, Trish spent a week in Alice Springs talking to Desart, the peak body for Indigenous art centres in central Australia, about the resale royalty scheme as well as Todd Mall galleries and Alice Springs art centres. She was also interviewed by the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) and the ABC NT Drive program in which she was asked to speak about the workshops she’d been a part of the week before.

Lastly, she was able to locate some Indigenous artists that are owed royalty payments through the resale royalty scheme and she promoted the scheme amongst some well known central Australian Aboriginal artists.

For further information on drafting wills, see the Arts Law Centre of Australia website and for the resale royalty scheme, click here.

Item posted on 12 April 2011.