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Home > Case Studies

Fashion Case Studies

Artist Mim Cole.

Arts Law Helps Mim Cole Secure a Fair Fashion Collaboration

April 15, 2025

Mim Cole is a Larrakia, Wardaman, Karajarri woman and visual artist from the Northern Territory....

Art Forms Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture & Knowledge, Community Arts & Festivals, Design, Fashion

Legal Topics: Contracts, Copyright & moral rights, Indigenous cultural & intellectual property

Post Type: Case Study

Read more about Arts Law Helps Mim Cole Secure a Fair Fashion Collaboration
Haley & Georgia pants, Nagula Jarndu Designs. Photo by Michael Torres.

Dressed For Success: Nagula Jarndu Designs Receives Advice on Contracts

March 28, 2023

Nagula Jarndu sought Arts Law's advice on designing contracts between manufacturers and designers to ensure the...

Art Forms Design, Fashion

Legal Topics: Business structures, governance & tax, Contracts, Indigenous cultural & intellectual property

Post Type: Case Study

Read more about Dressed For Success: Nagula Jarndu Designs Receives Advice on Contracts
tshirts on a clothing rack

Assisting an Artist in licensing their artwork to a clothing brand

February 28, 2022

Alex was collaborating with a clothing brand to produce hoodies using one of their designs....

Art Forms Fashion, Visual Arts

Legal Topics: Copyright & moral rights, Designs & patents, Indigenous cultural & intellectual property

Post Type: Case Study

Read more about Assisting an Artist in licensing their artwork to a clothing brand

Licensing work by Jennifer Wurrkidj of Bábbarra Women’s Centre for SBS Tour De France coverage

August 24, 2020

In May 2019, Arts Law visited Bábbarra Women’s Centre, an Art Centre that operates within...

Art Forms Design, Fashion

Legal Topics: Contracts, Designs & patents, Indigenous cultural & intellectual property

Post Type: Case Study

Read more about Licensing work by Jennifer Wurrkidj of Bábbarra Women’s Centre for SBS Tour De France coverage
A photograph of another photographer taking a landscape picture from atop a small mountain

Commissioned photographs and copyright ownership

October 16, 2018

Arts Law advised a professional photographer. The photographer had been commissioned to take commercial photos...

Art Forms Fashion, Photography, Visual Arts

Legal Topics: Contracts, Copyright & moral rights

Post Type: Case Study

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Zoë Lea: Protecting original designs from copycats

December 1, 2016

Zoë Lea is a fashion designer based in Melbourne. She operates the fashion label Unempire as a...

Art Forms Design, Fashion

Legal Topics: Copyright & moral rights, Designs & patents

Post Type: Case Study

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Mondo Rondo Jewellery licenses Indigenous artworks

April 18, 2011

Mondo Rondo Jewellery designs and produces Australian jewellery for both the local and international market....

Art Forms Design, Fashion

Legal Topics: Contracts, Indigenous cultural & intellectual property

Post Type: Case Study

Read more about Mondo Rondo Jewellery licenses Indigenous artworks

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Image: Ken Benitez ‘Dirt Road Under the Blue Sky’ (Sydney, NSW)

The Arts Law Centre of Australia acknowledges all Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia.

We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples continuing connection to land, place, waters and community.

We pay our respects to them and their cultures and to Elders both past and present.