MS Terri Janke is an Indigenous Australian. She is a lawyer and has her own law firm that represents Indigenous artists and creators. She is the author of Our Culture: Our Future: A report on Australian Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights (1999) and Minding Culture: Case Studies on Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions, prepared for the World Intellectual Property Organisation, Geneva 2003. She writes and speaks internationally about Indigenous cultural and intellectual property.

Terri's first novel, Butterfly Song, was published by Penguin Books in February 2005 and was reprinted in 2007.

Terri enrolled as a PhD candidate with NCIS in February 2008. She will explore future options for the recognition of Indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights to achieve a better framework for protection.

Email: Terri.Janke @ anu.edu.au
Website: www.terrijanke.com.au