Wrong, yeah, that's the wrong way to do it. If they want to learn, they learn it how they learn. By their tongues and all that stuff, eh? When we sing, Yol\u, yaka \unhi (that's not) right they will copy that. Yow (yes).
(interviewer: Even if it's just a yidaki?)
Even just a yidaki. When Yol\u do yidaki, and play, that doesn't mean |^paki are able to copy it, copyrightku (for the right to copy), making it, and doing business and all that. According to Yol\u law, that's our custom. They can listen to our manikay (songs), but the manikay is, that's like dhuyu (sacred). Madayin (sacred). We don't like |^paki to sing that manikay, and he can play the didjeridu. That's like stealing the manikay from us.

Wukun Wanambi
Marrakulu clan leader

 

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