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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 2005 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. He is currently a specialist Research Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation at QUT.
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Core staff
 | Elliott Bledsoe, Project Officer 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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 | Nicolas Suzor, Project Officer Started: January 2005 Nic Suzor is a Lecturer in the law school at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Nic’s research interests are broadly in Intellectual Property and Technology law and more specifically on the emerging power relations in social media and networked technologies. His recently completed PhD examines digital constitutionalism and the legitimate governance of virtual communities. Nic teaches intellectual property, internet law, open content licensing, and jurisprudence in the law school’s undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
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Affiliated staff
 | Professor Anne Fitzgerald Started: Month Year 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 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 graduated in law from the University of Tasmania (LLB(Hons) 1984 and Grad. Dip. Welfare Law 1987), after first completing a social work degree at the University of Queensland (BSW 1977). She is a member of the Queensland Bar with a current practising certificate; she has also been admitted to legal practice in Victoria (Barrister and Solicitor, 1990) and Tasmania (Practitioner, 1985). Anne has an extensive background in the areas of intellectual property law, internet and e-commerce law, international trade law and natural resources law. From 1991 she has taught subjects in these areas at several universities (including QUT, University of Tasmania and Macquarie University). Current teaching commitments at QUT include the LLM subjects Patent Law & Commercialisation, Electronic Commerce Law and the undergraduate law subject Internet Law. 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. From 2004 to 2007 she was a member of the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries’ Intellectual Property Advisory Group convened by that Department’s Director-General.
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 | Neale Hooper Started: Month Year Coming soon. |
 | Cheryl Foong Started: November 2008 Cheryl is a LLB (First Class Hons) graduate from Queensland University of Technology. She is the Coordinator of the QUT/QPILCH Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic (IPTLC) and research assistant to Anne and Brian. Cheryl has a keen interest in intellectual property law, internet law and the impact these laws have on knowledge and culture.
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| Jimmy Ti, Web Engineer Started: Month Year Coming soon.
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