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The IOC is incredibly protective of the Olympic brand. The rings, Rio 2016, and even the flame are all heavily guarded.
The Productivity Commission’s report into copyright reform will be good for the public, good for innovation and good for Australia.
The Productivity Commission’s draft report on Australia’s intellectual property system is good. Shame it is likely to be still-born.
What happened after artists such as Michael Jackson, J.D. Salinger and Franz Kafka died suggests it’ll be hard to keep Prince’s unpublished work out of the public eye, regardless of his wishes.
Traditional knowledge that drives indigenous communities’ innovation in agriculture, medicine and conservation is not protected by existing international law.
Gifted musician, peerless showman – and fierce protector of his copyrighted work. Prince fought battles that changed the direction of the music industry and are helping the next generation of artists.
Composers and musicians wouldn’t have created many masterpieces if the current copyright laws had always been around.
The government has agreed to the Harper competition review recommendation on parallel imports on books, but there’s still a long way to go on IP reform.
Knowledge and ideas and their application are the key to creating the conditions for the level of innovation Australia needs to build its comparative advantage.
The full text of the TPP trade deal is now public and offers some worrying lessons for how TTIP could turn out.
Australia’s risks losing its valuable native plants that could help solve a global food problem. So do we need new laws to stop the seeds being taken overseas?
Copyright lasts the life of the author plus 70 years before it enters the public domain. But the author and their family are often not the beneficiary. Perhaps it’s time for shrink that term.
What can Australia expect from the Trans-Pacific Partnership? We asked experts about to nominate some winners and losers.
Before the last round of negotiations, only a handful of issues remained in the way of concluding the TPP. A potential deal-breaker for Australia was intellectual property protections for biologics.
Intellectual property laws, 19th-century legislation struggling for relevance in the 21st century, are well overdue for reform.
Vodacom’s battle with its former employee over the “Please Call Me” service brings home global disputes over intellectual property rights. Do South African laws adequately protect innovators?
Intellectual property is critical to Australia’s success, but we don’t need another review to tell us where the problems are.
When academics come up with a viable innovation, they need to figure out the best way to protect their intellectual property if they’re going to bring it to market. Patents aren’t always the answer.
What’s behind the fall in the figures for patent applications in Australia? Is it just a lack of innovation or is something else to blame?
Top contributors
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Reader in Intellectual Property Law, City St George's, University of London
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Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University
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Professor of Law, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Associate Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Clemson University
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Senior Lecturer Above the Bar, University of Canterbury
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Professor in International Relations / International Political Economy, UNSW Sydney
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Professor and Distinguished Research Chair, Globalization and Health Equity, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Director, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
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ARC Future Fellow; Professor; Director, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Interim Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork
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Professor, University of Gondar
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Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law; Director Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Managament (CIPPM), Bournemouth University, Bournemouth University
