Copyright Future: Copyright Freedom

Copyright Future: Copyright Freedom

Old Parliament House
Canberra Australia

Program Chairs: Professor Brian Fitzgerald and Benedict Atkinson
QUT Law Faculty and ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation

This conference - Copyright Future: Copyright Freedom – will be held at Old Parliament House (OPH) in Canberra on Wednesday 27th May and Thursday 28th May 2009. The month of May in 2009 marks 40 years since the commencement of the Australian Copyright Act of 1968.

The conference will consider the history of copyright law with special focus on the excellent work of Benedict Atkinson on the True History of Australian Copyright Law (2007). It will also chart the path of copyright law since that time and give special focus to future possibilities. The conference will be opened by the Honourable Robert McClelland Attorney-General for the Commonwealth of Australia and our Keynote Speaker will be Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford University Law School.

Speakers include:
Professor Julie Cohen, Faculty of Law Georgetown University Washington DC
Professor Tom Cochrane DVC QUT
Maroochy Barambah, Songwoman for Turrbal People
Professor Adrian Sterling, Queen Mary College London
Dr Terry Cutler, Cutler and Co Melbourne
Professor Susy Frankel, Faculty of Law Victoria University of Wellington NZ
Professor Anne Fitzgerald, Faculty of Law QUT
Dr Prodromous Tsiavos, London School of Economics London
Professor Phillip Graham, Director of iCi QUT

Information
For further information on this conference please contact Professor Brian Fitzgerald
at QUT via email: bf.fitzgerald@qut.edu.au

Program
For the full program, see Copyright Future: Copyright Freedom program

Or download the PDF here.

Online Feeds
If you can't be there on the day, Creative Commons Australia (@ccAustralia) will be live twittering the conference, using the hashtag #CopyrightFuture09.

Videos of key presentations and interviews with guests are available on the conference website.