The "Unlocking IP" Research Project

"Unlocking IP" is a research project supported by a 2005-2009 ARC Linkage grant to a consortium led by UNSW's Prof Graham Greenleaf, contributions from industry partners, and hosting from Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre. You can find:

Policy submissions arising from the project
The main Unlocking IP Report (in progress)
Online resources, tools, and publications
Our researchers' House of Commons Blog
Project summary, aims, funding and participants
2009, 2006, and 2004 UIP Conferences, and other events

News and Events

The Centre is assisting Copyright Agency Ltd in a followup research project on Orphan Works in 2010.
The Centre is assisting Consumers International in a followup research project on the impact of the 2006 Copyright Act amendments in 2009 and 2010.
Graham Greenleaf presents at GLAMWiki (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums & Wikimedia: Finding the common ground), Australian War Memorial, Canberra - 6-7 August 2009
The UIP Conference: Unlocking IP 2009: Global and national aspects of the information commons, including round table on consumer and public interest copyright issues, UNSW - 16–17 April 2009
LawTechTalk: "Intellectual Property Transplants in the Digital Age," Prof. Peter Yu, director of the IP Law Center at Drake University Law School, UNSW - 28 November 2008
Conference: Prof Greenleaf presents at 'Building an Australasian Commons', Creative Commons Australia, Brisbane - 24 June 2008
LawTechTalk: 'Sharing info on the 'Semantic Web' or 'Giant Global Graph': unresolved legal issues', UNSW law room 101, 1-2 pm Wednesday 14 May 2008 Submissions: Legal deposit's role in the public domain - 2 May 2008; Unlocking IP to stimulate innovation in Australia- 30 April 2008
LawTechTalk: 'The Winny case: Cybercrime and copyright law in Japan', Prof. Makoto Ibusuki, UNSW Law - 19 March 2008
Seminar: Prof Jane Winn, US online contracts and consumer regulation expert, Consumer Protection in the 'Information Economy' lecture co-hosted with CHOICE, and a workshop, intro by Chris Connolly, on proposed Consumer Digital Rights Charter, UNSW Law Theatre G23 - 7 March 2008
Symposium on The p roposed OO XML ISO file format standard, with sesssions and background on technical and legal issues UNSW. Includes materials, links, photos. Participants from Microsoft, Linux Australia, IBM, Open Source Industry Australia, National Archives, Google, Standards Australia and experts from US, HK and NZ. UNSW 14 December 2007
'Increasing Consumers Voice in Intellectual Property Policy', side event at Consumers International World Congress 2007 supported by Centre. North Sydney 29 October 2007
Digital Copyright & the Consumer Revolution: Hands off my iPod by research associate Matthew Rimmer, Senior Lecturer at ACIPA, ANU. Book launch, National Library, Canberra 21 September 2007
LawTechTalk: 'The Democratic Deficit in Copyright Law: A Legislative Proposal', Maureen O'Sullivan, Lecturer, University of Ireland, Galway. UNSW Law Faculty 25 July 2007
'Commons in IP', two-day intensive LLM (LAWS5239) and CLE course investigating the public domain and public rights in copyright law. UNSW Law Faculty Fri 11–Sat 12 May 2007
'Digital Copyright Update' CLE seminar: Cooper link authorisation, Copyright Act amendments, temp. copies, and ISP, content provider and user issues. Anne Flahvin & Ross McLean (Baker & Mckenzie), Nick Abrahams (Deacons), Michael Williams (Gilbert + Tobin) and Nathan Mattock (Gadens). Grace Hotel Sydney 13 March 2007
'IP Information as a Business Tool in the Asia-Pacific session', IP Australia 'Trading Ideas: the future of IP in the Asia Pacific' conference. David Vaile session chair. Sydney Hilton 30 January 2007

2006 conference

The archived link for the 2006 'Unlocking IP' conference at UNSW is here: 2006

2004 conference materials archive

The original joint 'Unlocking IP' conference was in 2004 at UNSW.
It was initially at this address. The archived URL for the original 2004 'Unlocking IP' conference is:

www.cyberlawcentre.org/unlocking-ip2004/