ADA Copyright Forum 2024

Patricia is a Wuthathi, Mabuiag Islander and Ghanaian woman from Sydney, Australia. She is the Director leading the standalone legislation at the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts. Previously, Patricia was the Head of First Nations arts at Creative Australia. She has a Bachelor of Arts and Law from UNSW and the 2022 UNSW Alumni winner for her contribution to art and culture. She was also a 2018 Churchill fellowship recipient, investigating the practical application of laws in the USA and Panama that protect Indigenous cultural rights.

Patricia has worked on developing the Creative Australia Protocols for using First Nations Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Arts. Patricia has served on the City of Sydney, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advisory panel and has been a Board member of the Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival and the Moogahlin Performing Arts Board. She is currently on the RAP advisory committees for Beyond Blue and Intrepid Travel. She is an advisory member of the Sunshine Coast Arts Committee and the editor of the inaugural Lexis Nexis First Nations legal newsletter. Trish also previously worked as a lawyer at the Copyright Agency, Arts Law Centre of Australia and National Indigenous TV. Patricia was the 2010 WIPO Indigenous intellectual property law fellow and has attended WIPO IGC meetings on TK since 2007. She is also a published author, having written several articles and a chapter on Indigenous cultural intellectual property rights.

Delia Browne is a Sydney based policy lawyer specialising in Copyright issues. She is the National Copyright Director of the National Copyright Unit for the Copyright Advisory Group to COAG Education Council. The NCU provides copyright advice to the School and TAFE sector. See www.smartcopying.edu.au for information sheets and online educational resources on copyright. The NCU also advocates for copyright law reform on behalf of the School and TAFE sector.

She is a co founder and President of Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) a free online disruptive education initiative, the deputy chair of the Australian Centre of Photography and an iCommons Board Director. She is a passionate advocate of Creative Commons and Open Education and was one the drafters of the Cape Town Declaration on Open Education. She is on the editorial boards of the Media and Arts Law Review and the NZ Intellectual Property Review and is a sought after conference presenter.

Seb Chan is Director & CEO at ACMI in Melbourne. Appointed to the role in August 2022, he was previously a key part of the team behind the organisation’s $40 million renewal project, underpinned by co-design methodology, which transformed ACMI into a multi-award winning, multiplatform museum. Seb joined ACMI as Chief Experience Officer in 2015, as the senior executive responsible for the Experience & Engagement division of the museum, guiding teams responsible for visitor experience, marketing, brand & communication design, digital products, technology, and the museum’s collections, digitisation & digital preservation programs. He designed and leads ACMI’s CEO Digital Mentoring Program (2021–ongoing), working with CEOs and directors across the Australian arts and cultural sector. He is currently the National President of the Australian Museums and Galleries Association.

Prior to ACMI, Seb led the digital renewal and transformation of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York (2011–15) and the Powerhouse Museum’s pioneering work in open access, mass collaboration and digital experience during the 2000s. His work has won awards internationally in the museum, media and design spheres. Seb is Adjunct Professor, School of Media and Communications, in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT, and an international advisory board member of Art Science Museum (Singapore). He is an alumnus of the Getty Leadership Institute, Salzburg Global Seminar and UNSW. Seb also leads a parallel life in digital art, writing and music.

Dr Carys Craig is the Associate Dean (Research & Institutional Relations) and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in Toronto, Canada. She is also the Director of Osgoode’s Law & Technology Program, IP Osgoode, Academic Director of Osgoode’s Professional LLM Program in Intellectual Property Law, and Editor-in-Chief of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. A recipient of the Institute of International Education Outstanding Service Award and the President’s University-wide Teaching Award, Dr. Craig teaches and publishes in the areas of copyright, trademarks, law and technology, and legal theory. Her award-winning scholarship has been cited with approval in several landmark copyright rulings of the Supreme Court of Canada. Dr. Craig holds an LL.B. (First Class Honours) from the University of Edinburgh, an LL.M. from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and an S.J.D. from the University of Toronto.

Erin has an extensive background in copyright law and rights management in both cultural heritage and government settings. She has previously worked across in-house legal and rights-related roles at both the NFSA and the National Museum of Australia. She has helped deliver copyright reforms within the federal public service, including the remake of the Copyright Regulations 1969 and lead the consultations on copyright modernisation through 2018-19. She also supported the Copyright Law Review Committee in its inquiry into copyright and contract and also legal policy work related to Australia’s compliance with its international copyright obligations.   

Erin has worked on a range of policy reforms within the communications and arts portfolio, including the regulation of digital platforms and supported the initial work on the development of stand-alone legislation for the protection of indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights. Erin is currently the Chair of the Copyright in Cultural Institutions (CICI) group. She is a passionate about the arts and cultural heritage, with a background in dance and dance teaching.

Boris Eldagsen (*1970) is a Berlin-based photomedia artist, who studied fine arts at the art academies of Mainz, Prague and Hyderabad (India) – and philosophy at the universities of Cologne and Mainz.

He has exhibited in international institutions and festivals for over 20 years and has been teaching for international art colleges, universities, festivals and museums since 2004. Between 2003 and 2009 he lived in Melbourne and taught at VCA and PSC.

Boris is “Head of Digital” at the German Photographic Academy (DFA) and one of the leading AI experts in the international photography scene. In April 2023 he refused the Sony World Photography Awards, admitting that he applied with an AI-generated image to initiate a debate about the relationship between AI-generated images and photography. His stunt became worldwide news and his image THE ELECTRICIAN one of the most famous of the year.

Peter-Lucas Jones (Te Aupōuri, Ngāi Takoto, Ngāti Kahu) is the Chief Executive Officer of Te Hiku Media, an iwi organisation owned by the five iwi of the Far North of New Zealand. He is also Chairman of Te Whakaruruhau o Ngā Reo Irirangi Māori (The Iwi Radio Network), Chairman of Te Rūnanga Nui o Te Aupōuri, and Deputy Chair of Whakaata Māori.

In his role as a kaitiaki (guardian) of iwi radio data, Peter-Lucas oversees the safeguarding of data while driving the advancement of te reo Māori natural language processing tools.

Te Hiku Media is at the forefront of an innovative initiative to revitalise the Māori language, utilising AI technology and emphasising the protection and control of data. The development of their own Kaitiakitanga License allows for the responsible use of Māori data from a haukāinga (local people belonging to a specific marae) standpoint.

Peter-Lucas will talk about their groundbreaking Papa Reo project, highlight the significance of Māori having control over data, platforms, and technologies, and demonstrate how Te Hiku Media is actively addressing the challenges faced by Indigenous communities.

Olivia Lanchester is the CEO and company secretary of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). Previously, Olivia worked as an intellectual property lawyer in private practice and as a freelance editor. Olivia advises authors and illustrators on all aspects of the publishing process, and is highly experienced in the negotiation of publishing, agency and distribution contracts. She leads the ASA’s advocacy on copyright reform, cultural policy, unfair contracts and lending rights, and advocates for the recognition of authors as key drivers of the creative economy. Olivia is also a director of the Australian Copyright Council and sits on the board of the International Authors Forum.

Cullen is the VP of Policy at Spawning. Spawning believes that a future of consenting data will benefit both AI development and the people it is trained on. Spawning is an independent third party that created a Do Not Train registry intended to provide machine readable opt-outs to AI model trainers. 

Dr Kylie Pappalardo studies how automation, digital distribution, and intellectual property laws shape the reach and diversity of our culture. Her work seeks to develop and inform law, public policy and industry norms that prioritise marginalised voices and diverse perspectives in the production and distribution of screen content. 

Kylie is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), a Chief Investigator with the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Research (DECRA) Fellow (2021-2024) (DE210100525). Her DECRA project examines the impact of copyright law in Australia’s screen industries, focusing on distribution and access to audiovisual material. It considers how the high costs and complex logistics of screen production and distribution can be reconciled with the public goal of broad, affordable and sustained availability of audiovisual content that represents the full diversity of Australia’s people and cultures. 

Kylie holds degrees in Law and Creative Writing from QUT, a Master of Law from Georgetown University in Washington D.C., and a PhD from the Australian Catholic University.  

Matthew Sag is a Professor of Law in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science at Emory University Law School. Professor Sag is a leading U.S. authority on the fair use doctrine in copyright law and its implications for researchers in the fields of text data mining, machine learning, and AI. 

Professor Sag was born and educated in Australia. He earned honors in Law at the Australian National University and clerked for Justice Paul Finn at the Australian Federal Court. Professor Sag practiced law in London as an associate at Arnold & Porter, and in Silicon Valley with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. In July 2023, he testified to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Intellectual Property in relation to copyright and Generative AI. 

Robyn van Dyk is Head of the Australian War Memorial’s Research Centre. Her work involves leading the Research Centre team to develop, manage, preserve, and provide access to the Memorial’s archival and published collections.

Ms van Dyk has curated a variety of exhibitions, including co-curating the MAGNA award-winning Anzac voices (2014) and a joint exhibition with Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation, Gallipoli to Afghanistan and the future: 100 years of mapping (2015) and A Matter of Trust: Dayaks & Z Special Unit Operatives in Borneo 1945 (2018).

She is the concept leader for Anzac connections, the Memorial’s major centenary web project to enhance availability and access to digital content. Ms van Dyk has produced museum-related publications and delivered papers at national conferences. In October 2012, she travelled to Afghanistan as the Memorial’s official curator, and spent several weeks observing conditions and collecting records and objects. Ms van Dyk has recently partnered with the Australian National University in an ARC-funded project researching Australians in Borneo during the Second World War.

Kimberlee is a Professor of Law at the University of Sydney focusing on the regulation of technology and intellectual property law, and a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. She is a Fellow at the Gradient Institute, a research institute developing ethical AI, and a research affiliate of the Humanising Machine Intelligence group at the Australian National University, and a co-chair of the Australian Computer Society’s Advisory Committee on AI Ethics. She is the co-host of IP Provocations, a podcast asking challenging questions about IP law.