Australian made: A history of Australian copyright law and creator success 1868-1968. This project evaluates the role of copyright law in the development of Australian culture. Through an investigation of the experience of five iconic Australian creators in the arts (Nellie Melba, Norman Lindsay, Ken Hall, Albert Namatjira and Alfred Hill) the project examines how copyright law actually worked and the extent to which it served the mutual interests of Australian creators and media owners. The pro ....Australian made: A history of Australian copyright law and creator success 1868-1968. This project evaluates the role of copyright law in the development of Australian culture. Through an investigation of the experience of five iconic Australian creators in the arts (Nellie Melba, Norman Lindsay, Ken Hall, Albert Namatjira and Alfred Hill) the project examines how copyright law actually worked and the extent to which it served the mutual interests of Australian creators and media owners. The project makes a unique and significant contribution to the history of Australian copyright law, a long neglected area of research. It builds a better understanding of the legal foundations to commercial success. Misunderstanding in this area currently causes difficulties in law reform processes.Read moreRead less
Optimising Industry-led Regulation for the Digital Platforms Era. This project aims to investigate how harms caused by digital platforms can be effectively prevented through co-regulation where industry develops rules enforced by a regulator. Widely used in the broader communications sector, ‘co-regulation’ remains chronically under-theorised and its effectiveness has never been adequately reviewed. Meanwhile, harms such as disinformation and violent content expand in both scale and impact. This ....Optimising Industry-led Regulation for the Digital Platforms Era. This project aims to investigate how harms caused by digital platforms can be effectively prevented through co-regulation where industry develops rules enforced by a regulator. Widely used in the broader communications sector, ‘co-regulation’ remains chronically under-theorised and its effectiveness has never been adequately reviewed. Meanwhile, harms such as disinformation and violent content expand in both scale and impact. This research will provide an evidential base for optimising co-regulation in the contemporary Australian communications environment, benefiting regulators seeking to meet public policy goals; consumers experiencing online harms; and platforms themselves, who might otherwise be subject to blunt regulatory tools.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE210100525
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$421,625.00
Summary
Reconceptualising copyright to improve access to screen culture . This project examines the impact of copyright law in Australia’s screen industries, focusing on distribution and access to audiovisual material. It seeks to understand how copyright law and practice can better ensure that the wealth of humankind’s recorded creative output is available for people to enjoy, learn from, and reuse. It combines novel digital research methods with in-depth interviews to study the challenges of licensing ....Reconceptualising copyright to improve access to screen culture . This project examines the impact of copyright law in Australia’s screen industries, focusing on distribution and access to audiovisual material. It seeks to understand how copyright law and practice can better ensure that the wealth of humankind’s recorded creative output is available for people to enjoy, learn from, and reuse. It combines novel digital research methods with in-depth interviews to study the challenges of licensing and distribution in the screen industries, where copyright is at its most complex. It aims to provide rigorous evidence to inform the development of technology-neutral regulation for Australia's copyright industries, improve copyright licensing markets, and unlock the value of under-distributed screen content.Read moreRead less
Diplomatic Knowledge, Disasters and the Future of International Legal Order. Gaps and divergences in diplomatic understanding of global social, economic, and environmental conditions make coordinated international action difficult, especially in response to natural disasters. This project aims to shed light on how diplomatic and consular personnel come to know what they know about global conditions, how the information infrastructure with which diplomats work may inform (or impede) coordinated i ....Diplomatic Knowledge, Disasters and the Future of International Legal Order. Gaps and divergences in diplomatic understanding of global social, economic, and environmental conditions make coordinated international action difficult, especially in response to natural disasters. This project aims to shed light on how diplomatic and consular personnel come to know what they know about global conditions, how the information infrastructure with which diplomats work may inform (or impede) coordinated international legal action, and what could be done to make that information infrastructure more robust and less prone to blindspots. Expected outcomes include practical suggestions for diplomats, helping to strengthen Australia’s capabilities in diplomacy, especially capacity to lead coordinated response to natural disasters.Read moreRead less
A Principled Theory of Legal Interpretation. Law's practical operation depends upon the meanings of statements of law: judges, lawyers and parliamentarians all must frequently grapple with issues of legal interpretation. The development of a principled theory of legal interpretation - which will be the result of this project - is therefore crucial to the practice of law-makers and legal officials. It is also important to the broader community, whose interests are often affected by interpretive d ....A Principled Theory of Legal Interpretation. Law's practical operation depends upon the meanings of statements of law: judges, lawyers and parliamentarians all must frequently grapple with issues of legal interpretation. The development of a principled theory of legal interpretation - which will be the result of this project - is therefore crucial to the practice of law-makers and legal officials. It is also important to the broader community, whose interests are often affected by interpretive decisions made by legal officials. By bringing together a team of Australian and New Zealander philosophers of law with a leading international philosopher of language, this interdisciplinary project will also raise the international profile of Australian legal philosophy.Read moreRead less
Regulating and countering structural inequality on digital platforms. This project aims to find legal, ethical, technical, and commercial opportunities to counter inequality online. It uses machine learning and custom data collection tools to create new knowledge about how digital platforms—including search engines, social media, peer economy, and news platforms—can help to tackle misogyny, racism, and other forms of structural discrimination. It uses this knowledge to investigate the extent to ....Regulating and countering structural inequality on digital platforms. This project aims to find legal, ethical, technical, and commercial opportunities to counter inequality online. It uses machine learning and custom data collection tools to create new knowledge about how digital platforms—including search engines, social media, peer economy, and news platforms—can help to tackle misogyny, racism, and other forms of structural discrimination. It uses this knowledge to investigate the extent to which private sector digital platforms can be expected to monitor and regulate the actions of their users, what responsibilities they have to avoid contributing to discrimination, hatred, intolerance and abuse, and how the law should develop to ensure that our digital environment is more equal and fair. Read moreRead less
Interpreters in court: witness credibility with interpreted testimony. The study will improve access to justice for non-English speaking witnesses, testifying in court through an interpreter. It achieves this by taking advantage of new wireless technologies to transform the social and technological environment of the courtroom.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE210101827
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$394,700.00
Summary
Governing by Looking Back: A Socio-Legal Account of Cambodian ‘boat people’. This project aims to establish a socio-legal account of the arrival of Cambodian ‘boat people’ in Australia from 1989 to the present. The project expects to shed new light on these events by using an innovative blend of research methods. Interweaving archival and oral history sources, it seeks both to describe institutional responses to these events and show how participants experienced and remember them. Expected ou ....Governing by Looking Back: A Socio-Legal Account of Cambodian ‘boat people’. This project aims to establish a socio-legal account of the arrival of Cambodian ‘boat people’ in Australia from 1989 to the present. The project expects to shed new light on these events by using an innovative blend of research methods. Interweaving archival and oral history sources, it seeks both to describe institutional responses to these events and show how participants experienced and remember them. Expected outcomes include enhanced knowledge of the effects of asylum-related policy and the generation of international and domestic policy guidance for ensuring that such policy is historically-informed. Significant societal benefits will flow by generating new historical knowledge and understanding, and better-informed policy. Read moreRead less
Countering misconceptions in child sexual assault cases with expert evidence and judicial directions. This project reduces miscarriages of justice by identifying topics about which jurors benefit from specialised knowledge by an expert witnesses and the best way to deliver that information so they are better equipped to appropriately assess the credibility of child victims and offenders and render verdicts in cases of child sexual assault.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE200101447
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$419,337.00
Summary
The Law and Politics of Machine Listening. Machine listening refers to the branch of AI driving the rapid growth of smart speakers, voice assistants and other always-on listening devices. Many of its applications offer real benefits, but machine listening also poses urgent challenges across privacy, security, surveillance, human rights and other areas of law and politics. These challenges are yet to receive a systematic response. This project aims to examine the effects of machine listening’s em ....The Law and Politics of Machine Listening. Machine listening refers to the branch of AI driving the rapid growth of smart speakers, voice assistants and other always-on listening devices. Many of its applications offer real benefits, but machine listening also poses urgent challenges across privacy, security, surveillance, human rights and other areas of law and politics. These challenges are yet to receive a systematic response. This project aims to examine the effects of machine listening’s emergence in order to develop a conceptual framework for regulation and greater public scrutiny of this growing field of power. These outcomes are intended to impact public policy and enhance the social benefits of future technologies, devices and services that use machine listening techniques.Read moreRead less