During 2011 Rebecca is the Kernochan Center International Visiting Intellectual Property Scholar at Columbia Law School in New York. Her forthcoming book, "Code Wars: 10 years of P2P file sharing litigation" will be published by Edward Elgar in late 2011. Rebecca holds a first class honours degree in law, a a PhD in copyright law, and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education. Her home institution is Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where she is fully qualified to supervise masters and doctoral research students. Rebecca's primary research focus is on copyright law and technology regulation. She has particular expertise is in the area of secondary liability for copyright infringement, particularly with regard to the Australian, US, UK and Canadian jurisdictions. Having previously worked as an information technology consultant, Rebecca also has a strong interest in other legal fields which affect the regulation of computing, the internet and emerging technologies.
Books
Peer Reviewed Publications
The Uncertainties, Baby: Hidden Perils of Australia's Authorisation Law, Australian Intellectual Property Journal (2009)
As digital copying and online distribution become increasingly prevalent, the issue of when a technology...
A Bit Liable? A Guide to Navigating the US Secondary Liability Patchwork, Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal (2008)
In terms of scholarly and media attention, copyright’s secondary liability doctrines long played a bit-part...
On Sony, StreamCast and Smoking Guns, European Intellectual Property Review (2007)
In perhaps the final installment of the long-running Grokster litigation, the last remaining defendant to...
Australia to become “nerve centre” for P2P litigation?, Computer Review International (2006)
Discusses the terms and implications of the Sharman Networks (Kazaa) settlement.
Kazaa goes the way of Grokster? Authorisation of copyright infringement via peer-to-peer networks in Australia (with Mark Davison), Australian Intellectual Property Journal (2006)
In Universal Music Australia v Sharman License Holdings (2005) 65 IPR 289 an Australian Federal...