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Lecture Delivered at American University Washington College of Law
September 3, 2019

Copyright laws are beset from every angle. They’re criticized for failing to recognize and reward creators, for blocking new forms of creativity, for limiting access to knowledge and for causing culture to be lost. Copyright’s fundamental structures were settled before the digital era, but are cemented in by outdated and effectively unamendable treaties. In this public lecture, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow Rebecca Giblin illuminates a path forward to a new copyright bargain: one that, by taking authors’ interests seriously, would simultaneously reclaim lost culture, promote access to knowledge and help authors get paid –  all within those unamendable treaty frameworks.  

The themes of Professor Giblin’s talk are canvased in:

• A New Copyright Bargain? Reclaiming Lost Culture and Getting Authors Paid. Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Vol. 41 (2018) pp 369-411
• What Happens When Books Enter the Public Domain? Testing Copyright’s Underuse Hypothesis Across Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada. University of New South Wales Law Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4, 2019