Project leads
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Project leads
 | Professor Tom Cochrane, Co-Project Lead Started: January 2005 Professor Tom Cochrane is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Technology, Information and Learning Support) at the Queensland University of Technology. The position heads a Division which combines the services of the Libraries, Information Technology Services, eLearning Services, Learning Environments and Technology Services and QUT Printing Services in the one structure. The organisation currently comprises approximately 480 equivalent full time staff and oversees an annual expenditure in excess of $50 million, to support a full range of information and technology services as well as learning and academic support for QUT’s teaching and research activities. In his current role Professor Cochrane’s external duties include Chair, Australian Libraries’ Copyright Committee; Chair, Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council; Director, Australian Digital Alliance and Director, Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation. He is also a member of the National Research Infrastructure Council and a member of the Publications Board of the CSIRO. He is co-leader of the Creative Commons project for which QUT is the institutional partner for Australia. This project, together with other open access initiatives locally based at QUT, signal a long standing commitment to access to knowledge, and to research output worldwide.
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 | Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Co-Project Lead Started: January 2004 – February 2012 Brian Fitzgerald studied law at the Queensland University of Technology graduating as University Medallist in Law and holds postgraduate degrees in law from Oxford University and Harvard University. He is a well-known Intellectual Property and Information Technology/Internet lawyer who has pioneered the teaching of Internet/Cyber Law in Australia. He has published articles on Intellectual Property and Internet Law in Australia, the United States, Europe, Nepal, India, Canada and Japan and his latest (co-authored) books are 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 eight 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, Korea, Singapore, Norway, Croatia and the Netherlands. 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, Science Commons, e-Research, Licensing of Digital Entertainment and Anti-Circumvention Law. He has organised numerous conferences on Intellectual Property and Internet Law in Australia, is a regular speaker at international and national conferences and has made a number of significant submissions to government in the area of Internet and IP 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. From 2007 to 2012 Brian was a specialist Research Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation at QUT. Since March 2012 he has been the Executive Dean of Law at the Australian Catholic University (ACU).
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Core staff
| Professor Anne FitzgeraldStarted: 2007 Professor 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 teaches, supervises higher degree research students and is involved in several major research projects. Anne has a JSD degree from Columbia University, New York (2002) a LLM degree from Columbia University (1992) and a LLM (International Business Law) from the University of London (1989). She is a member of the Queensland Bar and has also been admitted to legal practice in Victoria and Tasmania. Anne has an extensive background in the areas of intellectual property law, internet and e-commerce law and international trade law. Since 1991 she has taught subjects in these areas at several universities and has delivered addresses at many conferences in Australia and overseas. Current teaching commitments at QUT include the Law Masters subject Patent Law & Commercialisation and the WIPO IP Masters subject Patents and Biotechnological Inventions. From 2005, Anne worked on the Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF) project in collaboration with Queensland Government legal and information management experts. She was a lead researcher on legal and policy issues for the CRC-Spatial Information project (2007-2010) that investigated the use of Creative Commons licences on public sector copyright materials. Since 2007 Anne has been the project lead for Creative Commons Australia’s engagement with the Australian public sector and has overseen the adoption of CC licences as the default copyright licence for public sector materials. Anne has published widely on intellectual property and internet law. Her latest book is ”Internet and E-commerce Law, Business and Policy”, Thomson Reuters, Sydney (2011). (For other publications see http://eprints.qut.edu.au/
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 | Nicolas Suzor, Project Officer Started: January 2005 Dr Nicolas Suzor is a researcher in intellectual property and technology law. His research interests focus on the emerging relations of power that are created and reinforced by networked technologies. Nic is a Lecturer in the law school at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, where he teaches intellectual property, internet law, constitutional law, open content licensing, and jurisprudence in the law school’s undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Nic has published broadly in copyright and technology law issues, including graduated response schemes, parody and satire in copyright, legal issues associated with free software, and the legitimate governance of virtual communities.
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Affiliated staff
 | Cheryl FoongStarted: March 2009 Cheryl is a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) and Master of Laws (Intellectual Property and Technology Law) graduate from QUT. She completed a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice and is admitted as a solicitor of the Queensland Supreme Court. Cheryl previously coordinated the Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic (a pro bono legal advice and referral service) from 2010-2012. Cheryl has a keen interest in intellectual property and internet laws, and the impact these laws have on our knowledge and culture. Cheryl has written several publications focussing on CC-related topics (including CC business models and tort liability for CC licensed public sector information), co-authored the CC & Government Guide, and organised and presented at several CC Australia seminars.
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 | Elliott Bledsoe Started: January 2005 When Elliott is not busy talking up Creative Commons somewhere in Australia he is busy doing one of the following: trying to finish his Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Arts and his Masters of Arts; is viewing, pondering, discussing or writing about some arts event or project in the local or national arts scene; or he’s drinking gin (sometimes a combination thereof).He is the founder and editor of POPCULT, a blog of un/popular culture. He is also the Secretary of Youth Arts Queensland, which promotes, advocates and provides access to the arts for young people in Queensland and is on the Board of Metro Arts, a performing and visual arts venue in the heart of Brisbane.
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