Arts Law Podcast: April 2025

A Guide to Tattoos, Intellectual Property, and the Law

In this podcast, hear CEO Dr Louise Buckingham discuss the intersection between tattoos and the law. With thanks to Dr Marie Hadley of the University of Newcastle, tattooist Adam McDade, and Arts Law secondee lawyer from McCullough Robertson, Alex Ho, our information about tattoos is here. Other sources of information referred to in this podcast include the Copyright Council’s information sheet, Copyright and tattoos; Copyright Agency’s article, Tattoo licence brings new meaning to the term ‘body art’. Information from Arts Law’s website about Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP), and Moral Rights is also referred to, in addition to Copyright Council’s,Moral Rights fact sheet; and Creative Australia’s, Protocols for using First Nations Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Arts.

Music by moodmode from Pixaby
Produced at Haymarket Creative by Angela Stretch