A collection of Australia’s pre-eminent voices on Intellectual Property Law

This book provides an introduction to twelve controversial, emerging areas of Intellectual Property, placing Australian concerns in an international context. It provides an intellectual foundation to assist readers in developing a level of general knowledge that enables them to cultivate a more critical understanding of the current political and regulatory environment and to pursue further research and study.

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1. IP in a Changing Information Environment
Kimberlee Weatherall

2. Six Minutes to Midnight: Can Intellectual Property Save the World?
Peter Drahos

3. Indigenous Culture, Knowledge and Intellectual Property: The Need for a New Category of Rights?
Kathy Bowrey

4. Copyright and Freedom of Expression 
David Lindsay

5. Copyright and the Creative Arts: Emerging Issues  
Leanne Wiseman

6. Competing Discourses of ‘Rights’ and ‘Harms’ in Trade Mark Law
Jason Bosland and Megan Richardson

7. GI Blues: The Global Disagreement over Geographical Indications
Michael Handler and Robert Burrell

8. Are the Courts Solving the Emerging Challenges of Biotech Patents?
Dianne Nicol

9. Intellectual Property and Plants: Constitutive, Contingent and Complex
Jay Sanderson

10. Competition Law and Intellectual Property: Establishing a Coherent Approach
Jane Nielsen

11. Intellectual Property and International Trade: Securing and Sharing the Benefits
Christopher Arup

12. Intellectual Property and Commercialisation
Adam Liberman

Kathy Bowrey – Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales

Michael Handler – Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales

Dianne Nicol – Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania