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Composers and musicians wouldn’t have created many masterpieces if the current copyright laws had always been around.
The government has agreed to the Harper competition review recommendation on parallel imports on books, but there’s still a long way to go on IP reform.
Knowledge and ideas and their application are the key to creating the conditions for the level of innovation Australia needs to build its comparative advantage.
The full text of the TPP trade deal is now public and offers some worrying lessons for how TTIP could turn out.
Australia’s risks losing its valuable native plants that could help solve a global food problem. So do we need new laws to stop the seeds being taken overseas?
Copyright lasts the life of the author plus 70 years before it enters the public domain. But the author and their family are often not the beneficiary. Perhaps it’s time for shrink that term.
What can Australia expect from the Trans-Pacific Partnership? We asked experts about to nominate some winners and losers.
Before the last round of negotiations, only a handful of issues remained in the way of concluding the TPP. A potential deal-breaker for Australia was intellectual property protections for biologics.
Intellectual property laws, 19th-century legislation struggling for relevance in the 21st century, are well overdue for reform.
Vodacom’s battle with its former employee over the “Please Call Me” service brings home global disputes over intellectual property rights. Do South African laws adequately protect innovators?
Intellectual property is critical to Australia’s success, but we don’t need another review to tell us where the problems are.
When academics come up with a viable innovation, they need to figure out the best way to protect their intellectual property if they’re going to bring it to market. Patents aren’t always the answer.
What’s behind the fall in the figures for patent applications in Australia? Is it just a lack of innovation or is something else to blame?
The argument that plain packaging encroaches on trademark rights is unconvincing – here’s why.
When asked in 1977 what he would do now that Elvis was dead, his manager Colonel Parker allegedly replied: “Why, I’ll just go right on managing him!”. In Parker’s mind, neither Elvis’ name, image, likeness…
Ten years on from the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement, Australia is entering another round of negotiations towards the new and controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership. In this Free Trade Scorecard series…
Some good news for soul music lovers from an unlikely source: a recent trademark decision by the UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) sent a strong message that the iconography of the “northern soul…
While legal sales of recorded music continue to suffer from widespread music piracy, the popularity of live music appears to be enjoying an unprecedented boom, particularly in the UK where new stadiums…
On Wednesday the US Patent and Trademark Office cancelled the US trademark registration for the Washington Redskins football team. This is a big victory for Native American groups, and an important development…
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Professor of Intellectual Property Law, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Public Health, La Trobe University
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Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Law, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Associate Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Clemson University
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Professor of Law, University of Melbourne; Chair of Private Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor and Distinguished Research Chair, Globalization and Health Equity, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Director, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in International Relations / International Political Economy, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork
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Professor, University of Gondar
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ARC Future Fellow; Professor; Director, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, The University of Melbourne