  The interest in higher derivatives field theories has its origin mainly in
their influence concerning the renormalization properties of physical models
and to remove ultraviolet divergences. In this letter we have introduced the
noncommutative (NC) version of the Podolsky theory and we investigated the
effect of the noncommutativity over its original gauge invariance property. We
have demonstrated precisely that the noncommutativity spoiled the gauge
invariance of the original action. After that we have used the Noether
dualization technique to obtain a dual and gauge invariant action. More than to
obtain the NC Podolsky theory, we have another motivation in this work, which
is to show that, although the introduction of noncommutativity spoils the gauge
invariance, it is possible to recover this property using a standard
dualization method which did not need any modification due to any NC effect in
the original theory, by the way
