Landmarks in Australian Intellectual Property Law

Description

This book provides a picture of how Australian intellectual property law has developed as a distinctly Australian body of law during the century since the country was established. The book takes a selection of key intellectual property law cases and tells their stories, situating each case in its historical, cultural, social or economic context, as well as providing factual details about, for example, the arguments made in each case and the evidence adduced. In part, the book offers a deeper legal analysis of the selected cases, many of which have been central to the framing of Australian intellectual property law. The book also provides a fuller sense of each case as revealing and influencing wider understandings and practices. Landmarks in Australian Intellectual Property Law is a valuable resource for teachers, researchers, practitioners and judges in Australia and throughout the common law world.

Andrew T. Kenyon is Professor in the Faculty of Law and Director of the Centre for Media and Communications Law at the University of Melbourne. Megan Richardson is Professor in the Faculty of Law and Deputy Director of the Centre for Media and Communications Law at the University of Melbourne. Sam Ricketson is Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne and practises at the Victorian Bar.

'I hope that I have shown sufficiently the variety of subject matter displayed in these essays to convince anyone interested in the way that intellectual property law adapts over time to societal and technological change that much that is of interest will be found in this volume.' Entertainment Law Review '... the editors Andrew T. Kenyon, Megan Richardson and Sam Ricketson ... have produced a book which is both engaging and erudite. Its contributors are drawn from academia, practice and the bench and the result is a book which will stimulate, entertain and inform students, researchers, teachers and practising members of the legal profession in Australia with an interest in all areas of intellectual property law.' The Cambridge Law Journal