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property law serves the public interest.

Article Highlights Controversies Around the South African Music Rights Organization

Struan Douglas has a recent article in Noseweek arguing that the South African Music Rights Organization (SAMRO) needs to operate under more transparency, and to be more closely regulated. He notes a "huge income inequality gap between top and bottom royalty earners", and reports that 95 out of its 595 top royalty earners were "music publishers, most of whom were

South Africa’s Copyright Bill Is Good for Digital Archives – Here’s Why

The current Copyright Act has no provisions for libraries, archives, galleries and museums. As an afterthought, limited provisions were included in Section 13 regulations for libraries and archives. Digitisation is the main form of preserving material in the 21st century. Yet the country’s copyright law doesn’t permit it. This causes serious problems for libraries, archives, museums and galleries. They are

Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Professor Eva Hemmungs Wirten QUT Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research Program Wed, July 10, 20195:30 PM — 7:00 PM AESTLocationThe Gibson Room (Z1064)QUTGardens Point CampusBrisbane, Queensland 4000 Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information Professor Eva Hemmungs Wirten Abstract In many […]

Tobacco Control in the Asia-Pacific

QUT IP and Innovation Law Research Program, 19 September 2019 QUT Faculty of Law Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research Program Thursday, 19 September 2019 5:30pm to 7:30pm Z1064, Gibson Room, Level 10, Z Block QUT Gardens Point Campus OVERVIEW This event is a research workshop focusing upon tobacco control in the Asia-Pacific. The World […]

Raising Climate Ambition: A Resolution for a Green New Deal

A number of Nobel Laureates in economics have been grappling with the problem of research, development, and transfer of clean technologies in order to tackle the climate crisis. Joseph Stiglitz has been investigating how intellectual property laws could be recalibrated and redesigned to better account for sustainable development and climate change. Stiglitz and his collaborators […]

3D Printing, the Maker Movement, IP litigation and Legal Reform

October 2019 By Matthew Rimmer*, Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation Law at the Faculty of Law in the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia 3D printing is a field of technology that relies upon additive manufacturing (as opposed to traditional subtractive manufacturing). 3D printing has also been associated with the Maker Movement – a social […]