Materials are now available for most speakers, under their section.

Day 1 – Thursday 18 November

Speakers for Session 1 - Keynotes

• Evan Arthur
• Professor Michael Pendleton
• Professor James Boyle
• Professor Yochai Benkler
• Chair: Professor Graham Greenleaf

Speakers for Session 2 -
Core legal issues in opening up and locking up content

• Anne Flahvin, Baker & McKenzie
• Ross McLean, Baker & McKenzie

Speakers for Session 3 - Case Studies: Successes in sharing?

• Open Source Software: Pia Smith, Linux Australia
• Learning Activity Management System: James Dalziel
• Sharing E-Learning Resources in VET:
  Vivienne Blanksby, Australian Flexible Learning Framework
• The teaching and learning exchange: Should sharing be limited?
  Leslie Loble, Strategic Planning & Regulation, DET NSW
• Professor Graham Greenleaf, UNSW Law Faculty,
  Co-director, Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre

Speakers for Session 4 -
Licensing for sharing and trading content: Working models?

• iCommons: Creative Commons: Ian Oi, Blake Dawson Waldron
• Licensing multiple layers of intellectual Property to the school sector: Nigel Ward and Nicky Pitkanen, The Le@rning Federation
• New publishing paradigms and the ‘Free-for Education’ licence
  Phillip Crisp, Australian Government Solicitors
• Funding the Development of Free & Open Source Software: Peter Eckersley, IPRIA
• Chair: Roger Clarke, Xamax Consultancy

Speakers for Session 5A -
Business Models for sharing content

• Roger Clarke, Xamax Consultancy
• David Jonas, Convergence e-Business Solutions

Speakers for Session 5B -
Rethinking copyright's public domain - legal theory

• Graham Greenleaf
• Michael Pendleton
• Kimberlee Weatherall IPRIA
• Chair: Kathy Bowrey, UNSW Law Faculty

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Day 2 – Friday 19 November

Speakers for Session 6 -

• Issues for Rights Management Organisations: Michael Fraser, CAL
• Managing IP in Education: Lisa Wood, Box Hill TAFE
• Content Creators: [tba]
• Publishers: Sheila Fitzgerald, TAFE Frontiers
• Chair: Jennifer Dunbabin, Australian Flexible Learning Framework

Speakers for Session 7A -
DRM Technologies: Flexibility and Interoperability

• Renato Ianella
• Rob Sanders and Dale Spender, AHOOT Consulting
• Chair: Rusty Russell, IBM Linux Labs

Speakers for Session 7B -
Implementing 'Free' or 'Open Source' Software licences

• Brendan Scott, Open Source Law
• Paul Kangro Novell
• Chair: Pia Smith, Linux Australia

Speakers for Panel Discussion/Summary -
The future shape of copyright and IP sharing and trading

• Participants drawn from speakers at the conference

Speakers for Session 9A - Global Standards and interoperability

• Jon Mason, IMS
• Tim Hand, DET NSW
• Chair: Robert Sanders, RMR Global

Speakers for Session 9B -
Implementing ‘Open Content’ licences, including 'Free for Education'

• Carol Fripp and Dennis Macnamara, AEShareNet

Speakers for Session 10A -
Acquiring and Adapting: Re-use of Resources

• Public and private case studies, including
  Greg Richard Body OnLine
• Chair: Dennis Macnamara, AEShareNet

Speakers for Session 10B -
Implementing Creative Commons licences

• Ian Oi, Blake Dawson Waldron
• Chair: Carol Fripp, AEShareNet

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