IP Law in Asia

Congratulations to John Hartley, Distinguished Professor at QUT and Research Director at CCI, for his recent Member of the Order of Australia (AM) award announced last Monday in the Queens Birthday honours list.

Vice-Chancellor Peter Coaldrake has recently approved the award for the title of Distinguished Professor to Professor Stuart Cunningham in recognition of his outstanding achievements as a leading researcher and his contribution to humanities both nationally and internationally.

The announcement also notes the award also recognises his eminence in leading both the successful bid and a subsequent re-bid, for Australia's only ARC Centre of Excellence in the Humanities arena.

The CCI annual report for 2008 is now available to download as a PDF. Or if you would like to receive a print copy please email infocci@qut.edu.au to request a copy.

PLATFORM Journal of Media & Communication is an international peer review journal featuring postgraduate work in the field of Media and

Communication. PLATFORM is an online journal available at

http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/index.html

As part of our efforts to promote the work of promising emerging scholars in the field, we would like to invite you to nominate your postgraduate students as guest author for our inaugural issue, to be published in June 2009.

A new book, edited by Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Professor Fuping Gao, Mr Damien O’Brien and Mr Sampsung Xiaoxiang Shi, focuses geographically on the Asia-Pacific, and particularly on China and Australia, but addresses universal themes about the law of copyright and its adaptation to the Internet in the 21st century said the Hon Justice Douglas at the launch in Brisbane yesterday.

A new book has been launched by current and former researchers from QUT’s Intellectual Property: Knowledge Culture Economy program led by Professor Brian Fitzgerald. Copyright law, digital content and the Internet in the Asia-Pacific, edited by Brian Fitzgerald, Fuping Gao, Damien O'Brien and Sampsung Xiaoxiang Shi, provides a unique insight into the key issues facing copyright law and digital content policy in a networked information world.

Professor Antons will organise a further annual workshop on IP in Asia at the University of Wollongong in December 2008, as well as completing his book on Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expressions and Intellectual Property Law in the Asia Pacific Region, which is under contract with Kluwer Law International. He will also be working on three further book projects. The first is a Research Handbook on intellectual property law in Southeast Asia, which is under contract with Edward Elgar; the second is an edited volume on IP Enforcement in Asia, which will be offered to Kluwer Law International; and the third is the new edition of his book on Indonesian intellectual property law. Several other book chapters and articles are also in print.

During 2007, Professor Antons published one edited book and several book chapters, articles and working papers, as well as working on an edited volume resulting from a workshop in December 2006.