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'A historically grounded study on a cutting-edge topic, Intellectual Property and Climate Change has it...
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"Dr Rimmer's book is a marvellous introduction to a crucial topic of our time. He...
‘Rimmer brings the tension between law and technology to life in this important and accessible...
This thesis provides a cultural history of Australian copyright law and related artistic controversies. It...
This unique and comprehensive collection investigates the challenges posed to intellectual property by recent paradigm...
This portrait of the global debate over patent law and access to essential medicines focuses...
In response to scientific breakthroughs in biotechnology, the development of new technologies, and the demands...
'It could easily provide the back-drop for a James Bond movie. Deep inside a mountain...
In The Climate Change Review, Ross Garnaut emphasised that ‘Climate change and climate change mitigation...
Patent law has a significant instrumental and symbolic role in regulating nanotechnology. A 2011 report...
In 2009, the National Research Council of the National Academies released a report on A...
4,400 people die every day of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Treatment exists. In about 60...
Historically, there have been intense conflicts over the ownership and exploitation of pharmaceutical drugs and...
This chapter considers the legal ramifications of Wikipedia, and other online media, such as the...
The famous wine region of Coonawarra in South Australia has been promoted as 'Australia's other...
This article considers the moral rights controversy over plans to redesign the landscape architecture of...
In an exploration of intellectual property and fashion, this article examines the question of the...
This article charts the conflicted, dissonant policies of the European Union towards intellectual property and...
Legal Context. In the wake of the Copenhagen Accord 2009 and the Cancun Agreements 2010,...
In August of 2010, Anna Salleh of the Science Unit of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
This essay provides a critical assessment of the Fair Use Project based at the Stanford...
This article considers the significance of a leading marine biodiscovery initiative. In March 2004, Dr....
This article considers the significance of the first export of essential medicines under the WTO...
This article considers the ongoing debate over the appropriation of well-known and famous trade marks...
The global Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) requires nations to ban all tobacco advertising...
This article considers the debate over patent law, informed consent, and benefit-sharing in the context...
"It's akin to the old Spanish, English and Portuguese explorers. They would take their boats...
This article considers the recent international controversy over the patents held by a Melbourne firm,...
This article considers the radical, sweeping changes to Australian copyright law wrought by the Australia-United...
Copyright estates have been unduly empowered by the extension of the term of copyright protection...
This article examines a series of controversies within the life sciences over data sharing. Part...
This article evaluates the implementation of the WTO General Council Decision in 2003, which resolved...
This paper considers the ongoing litigation against the peer to peer network Kazaa. Record companies...
This article considers the origins and the development of the defence of experimental use in...
In the field of digital sampling, disk jockeys have shown a recent enthusiasm for 'mash-ups'...
This article considers the race to sequence the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus ('the SARS...
This article considers the ground-breaking Supreme Court of Canada decision in CCH Canadian Limited v....
This article evaluates the adoption and implementation of an Indigenous certification trademark system in Australia....
This article considers the efforts of the Australian Law Reform Commission to clarify the meaning...
Drawing on two case studies, this article considers the allegation of a disgruntled author: 'Defamation...
This article examines the legal responses to protect traditional knowledge of biodiversity in the wake...
This paper considers the relationship between patent law and plant breeders' rights in light of...
In a victory for corporate control of cultural heritage, the Supreme Court of the United...
This article considers the integral role played by patent law in respect of stem cell...
This paper examines the dispute between the Seattle company Virtual Countries Inc. and the Republic...
This article considers the challenges posed to intellectual property law by the emerging field of...
This paper evaluates the litigation over the biotechnology patent dispute between the University of California...
This paper considers the legal challenges to the legal validity of the patents held by...
This paper investigates copyright law and public architecture in the context of cultural institutions of...
An artistic controversy over a group of landscape painters called the Daubists provided impetus for...
Whereas Lessig's recent work engages with questions of culture and creativity in society, this paper...
The production of the play Heretic in 1996 prompted a debate over copyright and the...
This article argues that copyright law is not just a creature of statute, but it...
This article looks at the various experiences of the film-makers involved in Shine in relation...
This paper considers the copyright litigation over the file-sharing program, Napster. The first section examines...
This article provides an account of one of Australia's great literary hoaxes - the Demidenko...
This article considers the artistic and legal practices of Bangarra Dance Theatre in a case...
This article considers copyright law and the art of appropriation in an Australian context. It...
With promises of improved medical treatments, greener energy and even artificial life, the field of...
There is a trade war brewing between the United States and China over intellectual property...
DURBAN CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE: In a global day of action for climate justice, thousands of...
In an episode of the television show Mad Men, Don Draper, the creative director of...
After much hue and cry, the Copenhagen negotiations over intellectual property and climate change ended...
In September, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd emphasized the need for national and global action on...
Campaigning to become United States President, Barack Obama vowed to ‘Reform the Patent System’. He...
The draft negotiating text on long-term co-operative action under the United Nations Framework Convention on...
In the landmark 2008 case Warner Bros and JK
Rowling v RDR Books, Patterson J...
Patent law provides exclusive rights to exploit scientific inventions, which are novel, inventive, and useful....
In a three day trial in April 2008, the United States District Court for the...
Once upon a time, Abraham Lincoln famously said that the patent system was intended to...
AUSTRALIA'S patent laws need to be updated for the 21st century to accommodate a range...
This week, Sotheby's sold the late Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri's painting, Warlugulong. The auctionhouse's spokesman, Tim...
Back in the 1996, the World Intellectual Property Organisation promulgated internet treaties to help protect...
In the case of Mattel Inc v Walking Mountain Productions, the toy doll manufacturer Mattel...
Albert Namatjira was Australia's first Indigenous professional artist. He adapted Western-style painting to express his...
“If Hollywood could order intellectual property laws for Christmas, what would they look like? This...
As an intellectual property expert, I am of the view that the much threatened litigation...
There are currently no regulatory mechanisms, laws or policies that specifically provide rights to Indigenous...
Thank you for the opportunity to make a submission to your inquiry into the effectiveness...
Geographical indications are defined under the TRIPS Agreement 1994 as “indications which identify a good...
I am a senior lecturer and the associate director for research at the Australian National...
We whole-heartedly support the introduction of a right of resale for visual artists in Australia....
“The Intellectual Property chapter locks in Australia and Chile’s current standards of intellectual property protection...
I note, with interest, that the policy document, The Protection of Indigenous Knowledge through the...
In the wake of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health 2001...
Despite Australia’s prodigious directing talent our Copyright Act operates under the legal fiction that there...
"There is a whole constituency out there with a strong view against copyright term extension...
As part of its policy activities, ACIPA hosted a symposium, "Freedom To Tinker: Patent Law...
This lively book, Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright, is designed...
This review essay considers three recent books, which have explored the legal dimensions of new...
This review essay pays homage to a number of recent texts and films dealing with...
In his book, True History of the Kelly Gang, the Australian novelist Peter Carey retells...
Given this heritage, it is little wonder that the University of Edinburgh has taken such...
The book, New Dimensions in Privacy Law, has an arresting cover — a pack of...
Of late, there has been a spate of popular and academic books decrying that copyright...
Law and Internet Cultures is a highly original and creative perspective on cyberspace law, with...
In Moral Rights and Their Application in Australia, Maree Sainsbury offers a summary of the...
Eva Hemmungs Wirten is an associate professor in Library and Information Science at the University...
Back in 1995, Peter Drahos wrote a futuristic article called ‘Information feudalism in the information...
The human genome project was a grand scientific enterprise, which attracted both hyperbole and ridicule...
In his 1994 book, Copyright's Highway, Paul Goldstein made the telling prophecy:
"The celestial jukebox...
Stephen Gray is a writer and law lecturer who has been living in Darwin since...
In an essay, "The Books of Last Things", Delia Falconer discusses the emergence of a...