Hear one of Australia's most respected Intellectual Property and eCommerce lawyers talk about Creative Commons and its application in Australia.

Speaker: Professor Anne Fitzgerald from QUT will represent Creative Commons Australia.

Anne Fitzgerald is a Brisbane-based intellectual property and e-commerce lawyer. She is a Professor in Law Research at QUT Law School where she is involved in research on several projects including the OAK Law (Open Access to Knowledge – Law) project, the Legal Framework for e-Research project and the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information.

Anne has served terms as a member of Australia’s two principal federal government-appointed standing advisory committees on intellectual property: she was a member of the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP) which advises IP Australia from 1996 to 1999 and, as a member of the Copyright Law Review Committee’s Expert Advisory Group (1995 to 1998), participated in the CLRC’s major review (“the simplification reference”) of the Copyright Act.

Free entry.

Venue: TBC

Drinks and refreshments from 5:30 pm with presentation commencing at 6:00 pm.

Contact: VALA Executive Officer + 61 (0) 3 97252725