IP Fundamentals: Copyright 2022
Are you solving today’s problems with yesterday’s toolkit? Leading IP practitioners will untangle the key issues in copyright law that will take your practice to new heights. Unscramble copyright risk areas using recent cases, investigate the intersect of copyright with designs. Learn the ropes of copyright in the context of non-fungible tokens, and so much more. WEB229N61A
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD units in Substantive Law
OR
3 CPE points in Trade Marks
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Ben Hamilton, Partner, Hall & Wilcox; Best Lawyers 2023, Intellectual Property Law
9.00am to 9.45am Copyright Refresher and Update
- Copyright introduction and refresher
- At the protection phase
- At the enforcement phase – defences and remedies
- Some observations on copyright and trade marks including emergence of “Brand Jamming”
- Copyright risk areas from recent cases
Presented by Alison Jones, Special Counsel, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
9.45am to 10.30am The Design/Copyright Overlap: the State of Escape Decision
- History and purpose of the design/overlap provisions
- The current legislative regime
- The Full Court decision in State of Escape v Schwartz
Presented by Timothy Creek, Principal Lawyer, Davies Collison Cave; Best Lawyers 2023, Intellectual Property Law
10.30am to 10.45am Morning Tea
10.45am to 11.30am Intersection Between Non-Fungible Tokens and Copyright
- Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), Blockchain and Smart Contracts explained
- Copyright’s intersection with NFTs
- NFT use cases from a copyright perspective
- Copyright legal issues in the context of NFTs
Presented by Stephen Annicchiarico, Practice Leader (Intellectual Property), WRP Legal & Advisory; Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Finalist; Intellectual Property, Financial Services; Australasian Lawyer Rising Stars 2022
11.30am to 12.15pm A Deep Dive on Copyrighting Software
- The subsistence of copyright in software; software as a literary work
- Ownership of copyright in software
- Infringement of copyright in software
- The Intersection between data and copyright
Presented by Stephanie Rowland, Partner, Allion Partners; Best Lawyers 2023 Lawyer of the Year, Intellectual Property Law; Recommended Intellectual Property & TMT Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2022
Presenters
Ben Hamilton
Ben Hamilton is a partner in the Intellectual Property and Technology practice at Hall & Wilcox. He has over 15 years' experience in IP commercialisation, technology transactions and other non-contentious and contentious IP matters, including trade marks, copyright, patents and plant breeders rights. Ben's practice includes working with clients from the horticulture, sports and entertainment, telecommunications, IT and technology, banking, franchising and distribution and higher education sectors.
Alison Jones
Alison Jones is a Special Counsel in the intellectual property practice of Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Australia’s leading independent law firm. Alison specialises in intellectual property and consumer protection law, and advises clients across all business sectors on a range of IP, regulatory and related areas including IP strategy, advising on commercial arrangements of various kinds and contract drafting, advertising and marketing, competition and consumer law issues, IP enforcement, and commercial regulatory (including food law, cosmetics, life sciences and therapeutic goods regulation, product liability risk and recall, privacy and data protection). Alison's experience in this area also includes secondments at leading companies in IP-driven sectors, including fast moving consumer goods and life sciences.
Timothy Creek
Timothy Creek's practice involves contentious and non-contentious intellectual property law matters, with a focus on commercialisation of intellectual property rights. Tim's non-contentious practice includes the preparation and negotiation of commercial agreements for all intellectual property and related rights, including commercialisation, assignment, licensing and confidentiality agreements. Tim regularly advises clients on general commercial matters, consumer protection and trade practices matters as well as intellectual property rights and their enforcement. He has also worked as in-house counsel for a government agency where he advised on, amongst other things, licensing, distribution and finance arrangements, privacy, corporate law and governance issues. Tim has represented clients in patent opposition proceedings before the Australian Patent Office, trade mark opposition proceedings before the Australian Trade Marks Office and patent, trade mark and design infringement and revocation proceedings, copyright infringement and breach of confidence matters in the Federal Court of Australia. Tim has acted for clients in a wide range of industries, including medical device, manufacturing, transportation, pharmaceutical, telecommunications and consumer electronics industries, and has also acted for government and not-for-profit organisations, including several universities and research organisations.
Stephen Annicchiarico
Stephen Annicchiarico is the practice leader of the intellectual property and technology practice at WRP Legal and Advisory. Stephen advises on a broad range of intellectual property and technology matters, including intellectual property commercialisation, brand protection, technology transactions and other related matters, such as trade marks, copyright, confidential information, financial services, privacy, and competition and consumer law. Stephen’s practice includes working with ASX-listed companies and some of Australia’s largest start-ups across a broad range of intellectual property and technology matters.