Copyright, Licensing and Cultural Rights
Who owns what
Our writing belongs to the Institute. Papuan memory belongs to the peoples who hold it.
Draft. To be reviewed by an Australian lawyer before the site goes public.
The Institute’s writing
Text, publications and design on this site are © 2026 NATAKA Research Institute, unless stated otherwise. Books published by Wone Press are © their authors and Wone Press, an imprint of the NATAKA Research Institute.
[Licence for free publications to be decided, for example a Creative Commons licence that allows sharing with credit and without changes.]
Indigenous cultural and intellectual property
Records, stories, songs, languages, genealogies, images and cultural knowledge in the National Library of Papua remain the Indigenous cultural and intellectual property of the peoples, clans and families who hold them. The Institute keeps them in trust and does not claim to own them.
You may not copy, publish, record, sell or adapt cultural knowledge from this site without the permission of its custodians, given through the Institute. This applies even where the law of copyright would otherwise allow it.
Asking permission
To reuse anything from this site beyond a short quotation with credit, write to info@natakaresearchinstitute.org and tell us what you would like to use and how. Requests for cultural material are passed to its custodians and the Council of Guardians.
How to cite
We use the Chicago Manual of Style, notes and bibliography. For example:
A record in the Library
NATAKA Research Institute. “[Record title].” National Library of Papua, record no. [number]. Accessed [day month year]. https://www.natakaresearchinstitute.org/library.
A working paper
Wone, Kurumbi. “[Paper title].” Kurumbi Wone Working Paper Series, no. [number]. Wollumbin: NATAKA Research Institute, [year].