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Unlocking IP 2006 Conference
Monday 10 - Tuesday 11 July 2006
AGSM, UNSW Sydney
Speaker biographical information
Dr Jane Anderson
Research Fellow in Intellectual Property,
AIATSIS
Jane Anderson holds a PhD in Law from the
University of New South Wales. She is a Research Fellow
in Intellectual Property at the Australian Institute of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Dr Anderson
has spent the last three years examining the contests and
conflicts in the ownership, control and access of historical
and contemporarily recorded Indigenous cultural knowledge.
The project focused on the significant amounts of copyright
material (in particular ethnographic photographs, sound-recordings
and films) that have been produced about Indigenous people
in Australia over the period of colonization - and current
repatriation of this material in digital form back to communities.
Outcomes included protocols for Indigenous knowledge centres,
national guidelines for acquisition, access and reproduction
of Indigenous cultural material by cultural institutions
and policy advice for Indigenous and non-Indigenous organisations
relating to Indigenous knowledge and intellectual property.
Dr Anderson is also the author of the forthcoming book
through Edward Elgar Press: Law/Knowledge/Culture: The
Making of Indigenous Knowledge in Intellectual Property
Law.
Ben Atkinson
Copyright Policy Researcher, on leave
from NSW Attorney General’s Department
Ben Atkinson is writing a book (Sydney
University Press), on the history of Australian copyright
law, testing the theory that the purpose of copyright regulation
is to encourage production. He worked at the Department
of Communications, IT and the Arts during the digital agenda
reform process and is on leave from the NSW Attorney General’s
Department, where he is principal policy advisor in the
policy division. His book builds on his Masters research
thesis undertaken at Sydney University.
Tim Barker
Queensland Assistant Government Statistician
Tim Barker is the Assistant Government
Statistician in the Office of Economic and Statistical
Research, Queensland Treasury. Tim is also Director of
the Queensland Spatial Information Office which implements
the whole of industry policy activities of the Queensland
Spatial Information Council. Tim has over 25 years experience
in information systems, product and service development
in Australia, Canada, United Stated and the UK. Tim has
a BApSc. from QUT, MScEng from UNB (Canada) and is currently
undertaking a PhD at QUT, where is has also lectured for
the last 16 years. Tim was named APSEA Spatial Scientist
of the Year in 2004 and is the current President of the
Spatial Sciences Institute (SSI).
Sally Bieleny
Business Analyst, The Le@rning Federation
Sally Bieleny is the Business Analyst with
The Le@rning Federation an initiative of State and Federal
governments of Australia and New Zealand that is developing
online interactive curriculum content specifically for
Australian and New Zealand schools. Sally is responsible
for identifying the business and functional requirements
for infrastructure systems and integrating the systems
and processes into the organisation. The systems include
content management, IP rights management and basic learning
management.
Ben Bildstein
Researcher, Unlocking IP project, UNSW/AustLII
Ben Bildstein completed a Bachelor of Engineering
(Computer Systems) with Honours at the University of Tasmania
in 2002. Ben then started work for one of Tasmania's few
commercial software companies, writing environmental data
management software. Ben now resides in Canberra and is
one of two PhD students working on the “Unlocking IP” project
at UNSW. He is working on research which will enhance the
Unlocking IP technical resources for finding content with
public rights, and providing incentives for their creation.
Catherine Bond
Researcher, Unlocking IP project, UNSW
Catherine Bond is one of two PhD students
working on the “Unlocking IP” project at UNSW and the theme
of her thesis is “Mapping Australia’s Copyright Commons.” Catherine
completed a Bachelor of Media and Bachelor of Laws with
Honours at Macquarie University.
Prof Kathy Bowrey
Dr Kathy Bowrey is an Associate Professor
in the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia. Her work is primarily related to intellectual
property and information technology law. It is generally
quite political and multi-disciplinary in focus, drawing
upon literary theory, legal theory, political theory, sociology,
feminism, critical race theory, cultural studies and techno-literature.
Her first legal employment was as a researcher for the
1987 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
Her most recent publication is Law and Internet Cultures,
(Cambridge University Press, 2005) She is an investigator
in the Unlocking IP research project.
Delia Browne
National Copyright Director of the Copyright
Advisory Group (CAG) MCEETYA
Delia is an extremely experienced intellectual
property lawyer. Prior to this position she worked at Minter
Ellison with Charles Alexander providing specialist copyright
advice to the education sector. She also has considerable
experience in entertainment law and assisted in setting
up an entertainment and intellectual property practice
at Michell Sillar Attorneys in Sydney. She has considerable
experience in law reform and lobbying. In her role as the
Executive Director of the Arts Law Centre of Australia
(1996 2002), she advised the arts sector in respect of
legislative reforms and policy in intellectual property
and taxation. She negotiated and drafted amendments to
the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000 and to
A New Tax System (Integrity Measures) Act 2000. Her most
recent success is the negotiation and implementation of
the ATO Tax Ruling 2005/1 Carrying on business as a professional
arts practitioner. This ruling is now regarded as the international
benchmark on the tax treatment of artists.
In her role as the National Copyright Director
she manages the newly formed National Copyright Unit of
Copyright Advisory Group (CAG) which provides specialist
copyright advice to the schools and TAFE sector and conducts
negotiations with collecting societies on behalf of schools
and TAFEs. In the last year, she has led the lobbying efforts
with the education sector in response to the government
copyright law reviews, as well as implementing smart copying
strategies. Delia recently taught industrial and intellectual
property at the Faculty of Law at the University of New
South Wales and is a sought after conference and seminar
speaker. She has an extensive publication record and is
a member of the editorial boards of the Media Arts Law
Review and New Zealand Intellectual Property Journal and
wrote the Chapter on Moral Rights for Halsbury’s Laws of
Australia.
Prof Andrew Christie
Director, Intellectual Property Research
Institute of Australia
Andrew Christie was appointed as the first
Davies Collison Cave Professor of Intellectual Property
in 2002. He is the founding Director of the Intellectual
Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA), a national
centre for multi-disciplinary research on the law, economics
and management of intellectual property based at the University
of Melbourne. Andrew has particular expertise in the application
of copyright, patent and trade mark law to the digital
environment, and in patent protection for biotechnological
innovations. He is a former member of the Copyright Law
Review Committee, and is a current member of the Advisory
Council on Intellectual Property.
Philip Chung
Executive Director AustLII
Philip is a graduate in Economics and Law
from the University of Sydney, with a major in Computer
Science. Philip manages the staff and resources of AustLII
and jointly oversees the technical development of AustLII's
projects and system administration. In addition to his
responsibilities as AustLII's Executive Director Philip
manages our primary legal materials, and has developed
all of our facilities to automate the receipt and processing
of cases and other materials. Philip lectures in computerised
legal research at UTS. He is experienced in large scale
legal publishing on the Internet, computerised legal research,
computer legal applications and automated text processing.
Dr Roger Clarke
Roger Clarke is a consultant in the management
of information and information technology. He has spent
35 years in the I.T. industry, as professional, manager,
consultant and academic. He has particular expertise in
eBusiness, information infrastructure, and dataveillance
and privacy. His work encompasses corporate strategy, government
policy, and public advocacy. He has published many scores
of papers. Most of them are available on his personal web-site
at http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/, which attracts
over 3 million hits p.a. Among other things, it includes
the world's most authoritative pages on 'Waltzing Matilda'.
Roger is a frequent contributor to conferences and seminars
throughout Australia and overseas, usually focusing on
topics and perspectives that conventional presenters overlook
or wilfully ignore. This often annoys people.
He holds degrees in Information Systems
from U.N.S.W., and a doctorate from the A.N.U. He was made
a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society in 1986. He
is a Visiting Professor at U.N.S.W. (in cyberspace law
and policy), the University of Hong Kong (in eCommerce),
and the A.N.U. (computer science). He has been active in
digital copyright for over 20 years, in ePublishing for
15 years, and in open content aspects for over 10 years.
He is Board Chair of AEShareNet Limited.
Dr Melissa De Zwart
Senior Lecturer, Monash University Law
Faculty
Dr Melissa de Zwart is a senior lecturer,
Law Faculty, Monash University. She teaches in the areas
of intellectual property and the Internet and has a particular
research interest in copyright and the issues created by
the digital environment. She has published numerous articles
on copyright, fair dealing, broadcasting copyright and
Internet content regulation. Her PhD thesis dealt with
the topic of fair dealing and contract in the digital environment.
Prior to joining the Law Faculty she practiced in the areas
of intellectual property commercialisation and technology
transfer.
Prof Peter Drahos
Professor in Law, ANU: Head of Program
of Regulatory Institutions Network;
Director, Centre for Governance Knowledge and Development
Peter Drahos is a Professor in Law and
the Head of Program of the Regulatory Institutions Network
at the Australian National University. He is the Director
of the Centre for the Governance of Knowledge and Development.
His publications include A Philosophy of Intellectual Property,
Dartmouth (1996), Global Business Regulation, Cambridge
University Press, 2000, (with John Braithwaite) and Information
Feudalism: Who Controls the Knowledge Economy? (with John
Braithwaite), Earthscan (2002), New Press (2003) and Oxford
University Press, (2003).
Jeremy Fisher
Executive Director, Australian Society
of Authors
Jeremy Fisher has been Executive Director
of the Australian Society of Authors since 2004. Prior
to that he had a thirty-year career in publishing working
for some of Australia’s largest publishers.
Dr Anne Fitzgerald
QUT, Faculty of Law
Anne Fitzgerald is a Brisbane-based intellectual
property and e-commerce lawyer. She is an Adjunct Professor
at QUT Law School where she works on the OAKLaw project
(http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au) and is a Principal Advisor
in the Queensland Government’s Department of Natural Resources,
Mines and Water. In 2002 Anne was awarded the JSD degree
(Doctor of the Science of Law) by Columbia University,
New York. The book based on her Columbia dissertation was
published in January 2002 by LexisNexis/Butterworths: Mining
Agreements: Negotiated Frameworks in the Australian Minerals
Sector (reviewed in the Australian Petroleum and Mining Law Journal (AMPLJ),
August 2002). Anne also has a Masters degree (LLM with
Merit) in International Business Law from University College,
University of London (1989) and a Masters degree (LLM)
from Columbia University (1992). She did her undergraduate
law degree (LLB (Hons)) at the University of Tasmania,
after which she worked for 2 years as Associate to the
then Chief Justice of Tasmania. She is a member of the
Queensland Bar and has also been admitted to legal in Victoria
(Barrister and Solicitor, 1990) Tasmania (Practitioner,
1985) and is enrolled on the High Court’s list of Practitioners
(1985).
Anne has an extensive background in the
areas of intellectual property and electronic commerce
law. She has taught subjects in these areas, since 1991,
to students in law, biotechnology, information technology,
multimedia and electronic commerce courses, as well as
to computer scientists, artists, writers and designers.
Prof Brian Fitzgerald
Brian is a well-known intellectual property
and information technology lawyer. He has published articles
on Law and the Internet in Australia, the United States,
Europe, Nepal, India, Canada and Japan and his latest (co-authored)
books are Cyberlaw: Cases and Materials on the Internet,
Digital Intellectual Property and E Commerce (2002); Jurisdiction and the Internet (2004); Intellectual Property in Principle (2004). Over the past five years Brian has delivered seminars on information
technology and intellectual property law in Australia,
Canada, New Zealand, USA, Nepal, India, Japan, Malaysia,
Singapore, Norway and the Netherlands. In October 1999
Brian delivered the Seventh Annual Tenzer Lecture - Software
as Discourse: The Power of Intellectual Property in Digital
Architecture - at Cardozo Law School in New York. Through
the first half of 2001 Brian was a Visiting Professor at
Santa Clara University Law School in Silicon Valley in
the USA. In January 2003 Brian delivered lectures in India
and Nepal and in February 2003 was invited as part of a
distinguished panel of three to debate the Theoretical
Underpinning of Intellectual Property Law at University
of Western Ontario in London, Canada.
During 2005 Brian has presented talks in
Germany, India and China and was a Visiting Professor in
the Oxford University Internet Institute_s Summer Doctoral
Program in Beijing in July 2005. He is also a Chief Investigator
in the newly awarded ARC Centre of Excellence on Creative
Industries and Innovation. He is also Project Leader for
the DEST funded Open Access to Knowledge Law Project OAK
Law Project, looking at legal protocols for open access
to the Australian research sector. His current projects
include work on digital copyright issues across the areas
of Open Content Licensing and the Creative Commons, Free
and Open Source Software, Fan Based Production of Computer
Games, Licensing of Digital Entertainment and Anti-Circumvention
Law. Brian is a Project Leader for Creative Commons in
Australia. From 1998-2002 Brian was Head of the School
of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University in New
South Wales, Australia and in January 2002 was appointed
as Head of the School of Law at QUT in Brisbane, Australia.
Carol Fripp
CEO, AEShareNet
Carol Fripp is General Manager of AEShareNet Ltd and has
been involved in the evolving intellectual property environment
since 2000. Carol has worked extensively within the
Australian VET sector, as a TAFE teacher; curriculum designer;
organisational consultant; change agent; knowledge manager,
human resource manager; and subsequently became involved
in electronic service delivery options and e-commerce solutions
in a rapidly changing environment - with particular emphasis
on managing information in a digital environment.
Carol has visited a wide range of technical
institutions within the United States and the United Kingdom
over the last decade, which has kept her current with new
initiatives and innovations in the global marketplace.
She has given several papers at national and international
conferences.
Prof Michael Geist
Canada Research Chair of Internet and
E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa; Creative Commons
Canada
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/
Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research
Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University
of Ottawa. He has obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree
from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Master of Laws
(LL.M.) degrees from Cambridge University in the UK and
Columbia Law School in New York, and a Doctorate in Law
(J.S.D.) from Columbia Law School.
Dr. Geist has written numerous academic
articles and government reports on the Internet and law
and is a columnist on technology law issues that regularly
appears in media outlets on five contintents including
North America (the Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen), South
America (Santiago Times), Europe (BBC), Asia (South China
Morning Post), and Africa (Kenya's Daily Nation). He is
the creator and consulting editor of BNA's Internet Law
News, a daily Internet law news service, editor of the
monthly newsletters, Internet and E-commerce Law in Canada
and the Canadian Privacy Law Review (Butterworths), the
founder of the Ontario Research Network for E-commerce,
on the advisory boards of several leading Internet law
publications including Electronic Commerce & Law Report
(BNA), the Journal of Internet Law (Aspen) and Internet
Law and Business (Computer Law Reporter). He is the author
of the textbook Internet Law in Canada (Captus Press) which
is now in its third edition, and the editor of In the Public
Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, published
in 2005 by Irwin Law.
Dr. Geist's work has been recognized with
several important awards and grants including the 2002
Canadian Association of Law Teachers Scholarly Paper Award
and a major research grants from the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada for work on Internet
jurisdiction and copyright law. In 2003, Dr. Geist became
the first law professor to receive the Ontario Premier
Research Excellence Award, obtained a significant grant
from Amazon.com to establish Canada first technology law
public interest litigation clinic at the University of
Ottawa, was named one of Canada Top 40 Under 40, and received
the Public Leadership Award from Canarie for his contribution
to the Internet in Canada. Dr. Geist serves on the director
and advisory boards of several Internet and IT law organizations
including the Canadian Internet Registration Authority,
the dot-ca administrative agency, and the Public Interest
Registry, which manages the dot-org domain. He was a member
of Canada’s National Task Force on Spam and is the former
chair of a global Internet jurisdiction project for the
American Bar Association and International Chamber of Commerce.
He is regularly quoted in the national and international
media on Internet law issues and has appeared before government
committees on e-commerce policy.
Ernie Ghiglione
LAMS Project Manager, MELCOE, Macquarie
University
Ernie has been involved in various open
source project in e-learning before. He has developed parts
of the .LRN Learning Management System, specially the Learning
Object Repository, content delivery platform, one of its
assessment engines, the IMS Content Packaging, IMS Metadata
and SCORM implementation. Prior to managing e-learning
projects, Ernie led large enterprise software development
in the US, The Netherlands and India for five years. He
holds an MSc Bsc Management Information Systems (magna
cum laude) from New York University and a Master of Software
Engineering from the University of Sydney.
Prof Graham Greenleaf
Graham Greenleaf is a Professor of Law
at UNSW, where he has taught for over 20 years. He is one
of the co-founders and Co-Directors of AustLII. One of
his main research interests is privacy law, and he does
not like national ID cards. He teaches IT law and Internet
legal research. He used to teach intellectual property
but has tried to kick the habit and is now the coordinator
of the 'Unlocking IP' project at the Cyberspace Law and
Policy Centre.
Andres Guadamuz
Andres Guadamuz is a Lecturer in E-Commerce
at the University of Edinburgh, where he is also a co-Director
of the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual
Property and Technology Law. Andres has both Bachelor and
Licenciado degrees from the University of Costa Rica. He's
been in the UK since 1998 and obtained an LL.M. in International
Business Law at the University of Hull and an M. Phil from
Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests are
on the interaction between technology and the law, the
role of intellectual property on developing countries,
open source and open access.
Neale Hooper
Whole of Government Licensing Projects,
Queensland Treasury
Neale is a leading lawyer in information
technology, biotechnology and intellectual property law
with over twenty years experience with the Queensland Crown
Law Office, providing specialist intellectual property,
information technology and communications law services
to Queensland public sector clients. He graduated in law
from University of Queensland and completed an LLM degree
at that university. Neale has made numerous presentations
to industry, professional seminars and conferences on various
aspects of intellectual property and e-commerce law and
has engaged in extensive consultations with information
technology industry representatives. Since 2003 Neale has
been an adjunct lecturer at QUT law school, where he has
taught in several intellectual property, internet and e-commerce
law courses in the undergraduate and graduate law programs.
During the course of Neale’s employment
with the Queensland Government, he has drafted and negotiated
numerous information technology contracts, including contracts
based on the standardized Government Information Technology
Conditions (GITC). As well as advising on a broad range
of intellectual property issues (copyright, trade marks
and patents), Neale was closely involved in the development
and drafting of the Queensland Government’s Intellectual
Property Policy and Guidelines.
Dr Janet Hope
Centre for Governance of Knowledge and
Development, RSSS, ANU
Dr Janet Hope is an Australian Research
Council Postdoctoral Fellow affiliated with the Australian
National University's Regulatory Institutions Network.
A qualified biochemist and molecular biologist, she was
admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court
of Australia in 1997 and spent several years working at
the Australian Government Solicitor. In 2001, she left
practice to study for a doctorate at the ANU's Research
School of Social Sciences under the supervision of Professor
Peter Drahos. Her thesis, titled "Open Source Biotechnology",
was completed in December 2004 and is available online
at http://rsss.anu.edu.au/~janeth.
Together with colleagues Dr Dianne Nicol
(University of Tasmania) and Professor John Braithwaite
(ANU), Dr Hope is the recipient of an Australian Research
Council Discovery Grant (2005-2008) to explore the application
of co-operative intellectual property management mechanisms
-- that is, "clearing models" -- in the Australian
biotechnology industry. Dr Hope has also written a book,
titled "Biobazaar: Biotechnology and the Open Source
Revolution", to be published
in 2007 by Harvard University Press.
Emma Hudson
Law School, University of Melbourne
Since late 2003, Emily Hudson has been
Research Fellow at the CMCL and IPRIA at the University
of Melbourne, after working for several years at a national
law firm in the commercial disputes and intellectual property
groups. Emily's primary research focus has been on the
copyright, digitisation and cultural institutions project
with Andrew Kenyon and Andrew Christie. She has also worked
on a collaborative project with the Australian Institute
of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies on intellectual
property and Indigenous knowledge.
Scott Keil-Chisholm
Project Manager, The OAK (Open Access
to Knowledge) Law Project http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au
Scott completed his Articles of Clerkship
with Blake Dawson Waldron Lawyers in 2001, after working
in the Insurance, Projects, Intellectual Property and Communications
and Corporate Advisory practice groups. He then travelled
to Silicon Valley, California USA and upon his return,
Scott commenced work in the Litigation practice group of
McInnes Wilson Lawyers, concentrating on the defence of
professional indemnity claims. In 2004, Scott joined the
Commercial Litigation practice group of Home Wilkinson
Lowry Lawyers which provided broader litigation experience
in project management contracting, retailing, construction,
manufacturing and franchising. In an effort to progress
a career in intellectual property law, Scott commenced
work with Colavitti Lillas Lawyers before becoming Project
Manager of The OAK (Open Access to Knowledge) Law Project.
Scott is presently undertaking his Master of Laws specialising
in intellectual property law at The University of Queensland.
Assoc Prof Andrew Kenyon
Centre for Media and Communications Law,
University of Melbourne
Andrew Kenyon is the Director of the CMCL
- Centre for Media and Communications Law at the University
of Melbourne in Australia and Associate Professor in the
Faculty of Law. The CMCL undertakes research into many
aspects of media and communications law and policy; holds
public seminars in Melbourne and Sydney about legal and
regulatory developments; supports research visits from
Australian and international academics, lawyers and policy
makers; and supervises undergraduate and graduate teaching
and research in media and communications law at the university.
Andrew researches in comparative media law, across topics
in defamation, journalism, free speech, digital communications
and copyright. Among other community engagements, he has
had a long involvement with the Arts Law Centre of Australia,
which is the country's national community legal service
for the arts. His most recent books are Defamation:
Comparative Law and Practice (London: UCL Press, 2006) and New Dimensions in Privacy Law: International
and Comparative Perspectives (co-edited
with Megan Richardson and being published by Cambridge
in 2006). He is also the editor of the refereed journal,
the Media & Arts Law Review, which is published internationally in paper and digital formats.
Simon Lake
CEO, Screenrights Australia
Simon Lake is the Chief Executive of Screenrights,
a non-profit audio-visual collecting society which collects
royalties for owners of copyright in film and television.
Previously Simon was the Executive Director of the Australian
Writers’ Guild, the national professional association for
writers working in film, television, theatre and multimedia
and also the Executive Director of the AWGACS, the Australian
Writers’ Guild’s Authorship Collecting Society.
Simon was a legal policy adviser with the
Australian Federal Government from 1992 to December 1995
working for then Attorney-General Michael Lavarch, then
Minister for Justice Duncan Kerr and the former Minister
for Justice, Michael tate and at the same time was director
of the Victorian Legal Aid Commission. Prior to this, Simon
was an Associate to the President of the NSW Court of Appeal,
Justice Michael Kirby. Simon is on the board of the international
retransmission collection agency, AGICOA, and the Australian
Copyright Council.
Raena Lea-Shannon
Frankels Lawyers (arts and film advisor)
Raena Lea-Shannon was the first volunteer
solicitor to work at the Arts Law Centre of Australia in 1988 where she researched and assisted with submissions on behalf
of the Centre to various industry bodies in the Arts and
Entertainment Industry including, visual and performance
arts collectives, organisations and individuals. She was
appointed as an Associate with Simpsons Solicitors in 1989.
She is a founding Director of the Board
of Queer Screen Limited,
which presents the annual Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi
Gras Film Festival and other
special film, seminar and performance events; a panel consultant
Solicitor with the Arts Law Centre of Australia since
1988; a founding Director of Out FM Limited, an aspirant community broadcaster in Sydney; In 2000 - 2002 she
was Vice President of Watch on Censorship,
a committee established to protect and provide freedom
of expression in Australia. She is presently still a Committee
Member of Watch On Censorship and Proper Officer. Raena is an active advocate of freedom of expression
and prepared the Watch on Censorship submission
to the New South Wales Legislative Council and appeared at the hearing of the Standing Committee on Social
Issues in respect to the NSW Classification Films, etc
Enforcement Act. Raena represented the Distributors of the films Irreversible (Accent Film Entertainment), Nine Songs (Accent Film Entertainment), Anatomy of Hell (Potential Films) and Mysterious Skin (Hopscotch). She
researched and wrote the Electronic Frontiers Association
of Australia submission to the Productivity Commission for its Report on Radiocommunications. She has written numerous articles and presented papers on Entertainment
and Media Law. She lectured part-time at the University
of New South Wales in the Entertainment
Law Masters course in 2002-2004.
Raena commenced with Michael Frankel & Co.
Solicitors in 1991 became Partner with the formation of
Frankel Lawyers in 2005. She has 20 years experience in
copyright, media and entertainment law and sound knowledge
of the new technologies industries through her active interest
in digital media. She is member of the New South Wales
Society for Computers and the Law. In 2006 she
founded the Open Legal Practice Standards Collaboration Org which
was launched at the 2006 LinuxWorld Conference at the Sydney
Convention Centre. In 1999 she was awarded the Law Society
of NSW, Community Legal Centre award for pro bono solicitor
for working voluntarily with the Arts Law Centre over a
period of more than fifteen years.
Dennis Macnamara
AEShareNet Ltd
Dennis Macnamara has worked in education for over 30 years
in both public and private sectors. He has expertise in both
managing the development of content and the delivery of services
and has been responsible for designing successful business
models for the design and delivery of flexible and innovative
learning services.
Since joining AEShareNet in 2002 Dennis has developed approaches
to demystify the complexities of copyright, IP management
and licensing so that practitioners can get on with business.
It is imperative that intellectual property be carefully
managed in e learning so that resources can be shared, traded
and used as widely as possible. Dennis presents frequently
on this topic.
Bryan Mercurio
UNSW Law Faculty, Director, International
Trade and Development Project, Gilbert and Tobin Centre
for Public Law
Bryan Mercurio is a Senior Lecturer at
The University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law, Director
of the International Trade and Development Project at the
Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and a Fellow of the
Tim Fischer Centre for Global Trade & Finance. Bryan
began his career working with the Government of Canada
working on Canadian-US bilateral trade disputes and subsequently
practiced international commercial law and international
trade law in the United States and Australia. More recently,
Bryan has advised both Australian and New Zealand parliamentarians
on international trade law matters. Bryan has published
several articles and book chapters and is co-author of
WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding: A Detailed Interpretation
(2005, Kluwer Law International).
Dianne Nicol
Law Faculty, University of Tasmania and
Centre for Law and Genetics
Dr. Dianne Nicol is a senior lecturer in
the Law Faculty at the University of Tasmania and a member
of the Centre for Law and Genetics (CLG), a cross-institutional
research group with members from the University of Tasmania
and Melbourne University. She has a PhD in cell biology
and an LLM in intellectual property law. The CLG has undertaken
a series of projects examining legal and ethical issues
associated with genetics and biotechnology, particularly
focusing on commercialisation.
Dianne carries responsibility for the intellectual
property component of each of these projects and has contributed
to various other aspects of the research programs. In 2003
she completed an empirical research project on biotechnology
patents and patent licensing in Australia in collaboration
with Jane Nielsen. Dianne’s other major research project, ‘Cooperative
Intellectual Property Management and Technology Transfer
for the Australian Biotechnology Industry’, is being undertaken
with colleagues from the Australian National University,
Janet Hope and John Braithwaite. Dianne was a consultant
and member of the advisory panel to the Australian Law
Reform Commission’s inquiry on gene patents and human health.
Prof Mark Perry
IBM Center for Advanced Studies, Faculty
of Science, Computer Science, Faculty of Law, University
of Western Ontario
Professor Mark Perry is a professor in
both the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Science (Department
of Computer Science) at the University of Western Ontario
and is currently a Visiting Fellow with the Law Faculty
at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. He is
a Barrister and Solicitor of the Law Society of Upper Canada,
a Faculty Fellow at IBM’s Center for Advanced Studies,
the Tremayne-Lloyd Law Fellow, a correspondent for the
Computer Law and Security Report, and a member of the International
Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research
in Intellectual Property, the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, the Intellectual Property Institute
of Canada, and the Association of Computer Machinery. He
acts as a reviewer for multiple granting societies and
professional associations.
Professor Perry’s research is focused on
the nexus of law and science, both digital and biological,
and in the area of autonomic computing system development.
He has published widely in these areas. He holds grants
from SSHRC and NSERC to pursue his research in law and
science and has supervised numerous graduate and undergraduate
theses. He has been invited by law schools in Australia,
Canada, India, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the
United States, to speak at research-intensive colloquia
and to classes, and is frequently interviewed by international
and local media for commentary on topical issues.
Gordon Renouf
Policy Director, Australian Consumers
Association
Gordon Renouf is General Manager, Policy
and Campaigns at the Australian Consumers’ Association,
having joined in May 2005. CHOICE publishes consumer information
and campaigns to improve the lives of consumers. Prior
to joining ACA, Gordon worked for a range of non government
organisations on consumer and legal issues including the
as Director of the National Pro Bono Resource Centre and
of the North Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service. In
2004 he lead a substantial project to develop a ‘whole
of government’ Alcohol Framework for the Northern Territory
Government. Gordon has served on a wide range of consumer
and industry bodies including as convenor of the National
Association of Community Legal Centres and as a Board member
of the Finance Industry Complaints Service.
Rusty Russell
Rusty Russell is a professional Linux and
Free/Open Source Software programmer, employed in that
capacity by various companies since 1997. He is also a
well-established international keynote speaker on technical
topics, founded the linux.conf.au conference in 1998, and
is Linux Australia IP Policy Adviser.
Brendan Scott
Brendan is the principal of Open Source
Law, an ICT legal practice with a special focus on open
source and customer copyright. Brendan has over 12 years
of experience in ICT related legal issues. He is a director
and founding member of Open Source Industry Australia Limited
and is on the steering committee of the Australian Service
for Knowledge of Open Source Software, a national focal
point for advice, management, governance, storage and dissemination
of Open Source Software (OSS) for research and higher education.
Alison Shames
State Copyright Manager, NSW Attorney
General’s Department
Alison Shames is the State Copyright Manager
for New South Wales. She is responsible for the development
of a strategic approach to the State’s use and dissemination
of copyright material, the negotiation of agreements for
government copying, the conduct of copyright litigation,
participation in Commonwealth copyright inquiries, and
the licensing or assignment of Crown copyright material.
Alison is currently developing guidelines for the licensing
of Crown copyright material across the whole-of-government.
Before starting with the Attorney General’s Department
of New South Wales, Alison worked at John Fairfax Holdings
Limited, where she provided strategic and legal advice
for all divisions of the media company. Alison received
a law degree from New York University School of Law and
spent several years as a licensing lawyer in San Francisco
before moving to Australia.
Alida Stanley
Senior Solicitor, Arts Law Centre of Australia
Alida Stanley joined Arts Law in the senior
solicitor’s role in early 2006. Alida graduated from the
University of NSW’s law school in 1997 and spent the last
5 years in New York in the top tier law firm, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
LLP. Prior to heading overseas, Alida worked at Mallesons
Stephen Jaques in their Telecommunications and Intellectual
Property group for 2.5 years. Alida also has experience
as a journalist and has worked in the management and production
of independent music
Nic Suzor
Creative Commons Australia, PhD researcher,
QUT Faculty of Law
Nic Suzor is a PhD student at QUT Law School,
researching commons-based peer production and exploring
legal issues and legitimate governance of virtual worlds.
He is involved in several research projects including Creative
Commons Australia; research into legal issues of Free and
Open Source Software; and massively multiplayer online
environments. Nic teaches jurisprudence in QUT's undergraduate
law programme, and legal issues to journalism students
in QUT's Creative Industries faculty.
Dilan Thampapillai
Associate Lecturer, QUT Faculty of Law
Dilan Thampapillai is an Associate Lecturer
at the Queensland University of Technology. Dilan researches
in intellectual property as part of the Open Access to
Knowledge Law (OAKLAW) project under Professor Brian Fitzgerald.
Dilan also lectures in intellectual property law and property
law. Dilan previously worked for the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s
Department where he advised on the Australia-United States
Free Trade Agreement, Crown Copyright, Fair Use and the
Google print Library Project and other issue. Dilan has
a Master of Laws degree from Cornell University.
Vanessa Tuckfield
Copyright Officer, Canberra Institute
of Technology
Vanessa Tuckfield is the Copyright Officer
at the Canberra Institute of Technology. She is responsible
for the statutory licenses, providing policy advice and
management of intellectual property. She teaches a range
of intellectual property subjects across the Institute
and lectures on IP issues in various industries to many
more. Since 2004, she has worked with the Australian Flexible
Learning Framework to develop the Copyright Kitchen and
to help Vocational and Technical Education practitioners
understand their legal obligations regarding copyright
law. Previously Vanessa worked in publishing in the Commonwealth,
and managed the administration of Commonwealth copyright.
Ray Warouw
Project Manager, ASK-OSS, MELCOE, Macquarie
University
Ray is the Research Centre Manager for
MELCOE. Ray has 15 years of professional software development
experience in open source and proprietary environments
spanning research, education and commercial industries.
Ray is a partner in the "Unlocking IP - Expanding
public rights and the public domain in Australian copyright" ARC
project, and is active and participating in the arrangement
of information events for the Australian open source community.
He is also experienced in e-research and e-learning infrastructure
design, construction and deployment.
Kimberlee Weatherall
Associate Director, Intellectual Property
Research Institute of Australia, University of Melbourne
http://weatherall.blogspot.com/
Kimberlee Weatherall is the Associate Director
(Law) at the Intellectual Property Institute of Australia,
an interdisciplinary research centre based at the University
of Melbourne comprising researchers from the Melbourne
Law School, the Melbourne Business School and the Melbourne
Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research. Kimberlee
holds postgraduate degrees in law, specialising in intellectual
property, from both Oxford and Yale University. She currently
lectures at the Melbourne University Law School in intellectual
property and information technology law. At IPRIA she leads
research projects on intellectual property issues, in particular
on IP Enforcement, digital copyright issues, patent litigation
processes, and the impact of bilateral free trade agreements
on the development of IP law.
Kim has published and spoken on a wide
range of intellectual property issues, from indigenous
interests in traditional designs, to the US-Australia Free
Trade Agreement, and copyright in a digital age. Her commentary
on intellectual property law has been cited by courts and
Parliamentary Committees.
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