ICML Conference 2009: Keynote Speaker

Professor Brian Fitzgerald BA (Griff) LLB (Hons) (QUT) BCL (Oxon.) LLM (Harv.) PhD (Griff)

Professor - Law Faculty, QUT Brisbane Australia
Barrister of the High Court of Australia
bf.fitzgerald@qut.edu.au
Website at: http://www.law.qut.edu.au/staff/lsstaff/fitzgerald.jsp | htpp://www.ip.qut.edu.au

Biography:

Brian Fitzgerald BA (Griff) LLB (Hons) (QUT) BCL (Oxon.) LLM (Harv.) PhD (Griff) is an internationally recognised scholar specialising in Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw.

He holds postgraduate degrees in law from Oxford University and Harvard University and his recent publications include Cyberlaw: Cases and Materials on the Internet, Digital Intellectual Property and E Commerce (2002); Jurisdiction and the Internet (2004); Intellectual Property in Principle (2004) and Internet and Ecommerce Law (2007). Over the past ten years Brian has delivered seminars on Information Technology, Internet and Intellectual Property law in Australia, Canada, China, Brazil, New Zealand, USA, Nepal, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Norway, Croatia, France, Thailand, Slovakia and the Netherlands.

Brian is a Chief Investigator and Program Leader for Law in the ARC Centre of Excellence on Creative Industries and Innovation and Project Leader for the Australian Government funded Open Access to Knowledge Law Project (OAK Law) www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au and Legal Framework for e-Research Project. He is also a Program Leader for the CRC Spatial Information. His current projects include work on intellectual property issues across the areas of Copyright, Digital Content and the Internet, Copyright and the Creative Industries in China, Open Content Licensing and the Creative Commons, Free and Open Source Software, Research Use of Patents, Patent Transparency, Science Commons, e-Research, Licensing of Digital Entertainment and Anti-Circumvention Law.

From 1998-2002 Brian was Head of the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University in New South Wales, Australia and from January 2002 – January 2007 was Head of the School of Law at QUT in Brisbane. He is currently a specialist Research Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation at QUT. He is also a Barrister of the High Court of Australia. See further information here http://www.law.qut.edu.au/staff/lsstaff/fitzgerald.jsp and here www.ip.qut.edu.au

Presentation: Sharing for Knowledge: The Role and Response of Law

The way we develop knowledge and enhance productivity across all sectors of modern life has changed significantly in recent years. The rise of the networked information environment has provided the opportunity for knowledge production processes to be more distributed, collaborative and serendipitous and for them to occur in 'real time' and on a global scale. However the law (especially copyright law) still presents as one of the most significant barriers to realising the full potential of the new knowledge landscape. This keynote presentation will examine how the law is reacting to the rise of the networked information society and how it might be reformed and/or better implemented in the future to enhance the networking of knowledge in an era of open innovation.