Geographical Indications for Wine in Australia’s Free Trade Agreements. This project aims to clarify the appropriate basis for protecting geographical indications for wines in trade agreements and domestic legal systems. The project expects to generate new knowledge concerning the criteria, evidence and procedure that should be required to establish a geographical indication. Existing law risks misuse of this mechanism to unjustifiably protect domestic markets; the European Union is seeking prot ....Geographical Indications for Wine in Australia’s Free Trade Agreements. This project aims to clarify the appropriate basis for protecting geographical indications for wines in trade agreements and domestic legal systems. The project expects to generate new knowledge concerning the criteria, evidence and procedure that should be required to establish a geographical indication. Existing law risks misuse of this mechanism to unjustifiably protect domestic markets; the European Union is seeking protection for what appear to be grape varieties rather than geographical indications. Expected outcomes include evidence-based recommendations to government and industry. Project outcomes should benefit Australian economic interests by enhancing Australia’s ability to resist spurious geographical indication claims.Read moreRead less
Legal and social dynamics of eBook lending in Australia’s public libraries. Legal and social dynamics of eBook lending in Australia’s public libraries. This project aims to develop an evidence base of quantitative and qualitative data about how eBooks are used in libraries. EBooks have tremendous beneficial potential, particularly for Australians in remote areas and those with impaired mobility or vision. However, libraries’ rights to acquire and lend them are more restricted than for physical b ....Legal and social dynamics of eBook lending in Australia’s public libraries. Legal and social dynamics of eBook lending in Australia’s public libraries. This project aims to develop an evidence base of quantitative and qualitative data about how eBooks are used in libraries. EBooks have tremendous beneficial potential, particularly for Australians in remote areas and those with impaired mobility or vision. However, libraries’ rights to acquire and lend them are more restricted than for physical books. Libraries and legal, social and data science researchers will investigate eBook lending practices and understand their social impacts. The project will identify ways of reforming policy, law, and practice to help libraries fulfil their public interest missions. This project is expected to enable libraries to extract more value from existing public investments.Read moreRead less
Cultural Collections, Creators and Copyright: Museums, Galleries, Libraries and Archives and Australia's Digital Heritage. This project investigates current and emerging ways of using digital collections in museums, galleries, libraries and archives, in light of copyright law and the interests of creators. It serves the strong public interest in facilitating digital access to collections while efficiently managing copyright. Exploiting the potential of digital media and maximising Australia's cr ....Cultural Collections, Creators and Copyright: Museums, Galleries, Libraries and Archives and Australia's Digital Heritage. This project investigates current and emerging ways of using digital collections in museums, galleries, libraries and archives, in light of copyright law and the interests of creators. It serves the strong public interest in facilitating digital access to collections while efficiently managing copyright. Exploiting the potential of digital media and maximising Australia's creative capability both depend on providing adequate incentives for content production while granting access to creative material as a resource for new production. The project will assist Australia better manage its digital cultural collections and balance the interests of creators, institutions and public accessibility.Read moreRead less
Unlocking IP - Expanding public rights and the public domain in Australian copyright. This research investigates how Australia's digital commons, comprising both the public domain and public rights created by open content and open software licensing, can be expanded and protected. It focuses on 'self help' actions within the existing statutory context, in Australia's distinct legal and cultural context, and on comprehensiveness. Its significance is that healthy commons-based production of inform ....Unlocking IP - Expanding public rights and the public domain in Australian copyright. This research investigates how Australia's digital commons, comprising both the public domain and public rights created by open content and open software licensing, can be expanded and protected. It focuses on 'self help' actions within the existing statutory context, in Australia's distinct legal and cultural context, and on comprehensiveness. Its significance is that healthy commons-based production of information is essential to Australia as an innovative country and a democracy. The principal outcomes will be better understood and more efficient public rights licences, incentives to copyright owners to create them, and technical aids to allow users to find commons content.Read moreRead less
Testing trade mark law's image of the consumer. An effective trade mark law is vital both to protect consumers and to allow businesses to build brand recognition. This project seeks to put Australian trade mark law on a firmer empirical footing by bringing together experts from psychology, law and marketing to test the law’s assumptions against actual consumer responses.
Negotiation style choice and performance in non-equity business partnerships: An empirical assessment. Business relationships, in general, and non-equity business partnerships, in particular, are increasingly important in accomplishing commercial and community objectives in Australia. While businesses focus on purposefully negotiated agreements to drive the performance of these collaborations, an all too large majority fail. This study will result in theoretical and empirical contributions to ou ....Negotiation style choice and performance in non-equity business partnerships: An empirical assessment. Business relationships, in general, and non-equity business partnerships, in particular, are increasingly important in accomplishing commercial and community objectives in Australia. While businesses focus on purposefully negotiated agreements to drive the performance of these collaborations, an all too large majority fail. This study will result in theoretical and empirical contributions to our understanding of negotiation behaviour and related performance effects in non-equity business partnerships; hence, filling a gap in the literature. The findings will significantly benefit those organisations being involved in partnering by providing recommendations for negotiating these partnerships more effectively; hence, reducing their failure rate and achieving important objectives.Read moreRead less
Valuation, Investment Timing and Equity Financing of Commercial Real Estate in the Australian Market. Commercial real estate represents a significant component of the investment opportunities available in Australia. This sector is currently valued at approximately $1,500 billion with in excess of 85% of development financed via property trusts. The effective management of these assets requires an understanding of the tools available and their impact on risk and return. Despite its importance th ....Valuation, Investment Timing and Equity Financing of Commercial Real Estate in the Australian Market. Commercial real estate represents a significant component of the investment opportunities available in Australia. This sector is currently valued at approximately $1,500 billion with in excess of 85% of development financed via property trusts. The effective management of these assets requires an understanding of the tools available and their impact on risk and return. Despite its importance there is limited empirical evidence on the factors that influence land pricing, the development process and the provision of equity financing to this sector. Here we propose to undertake two interrelated studies designed to address this gap, providing management with a benchmark for assessing investment alternatives within the real estate sector.Read moreRead less
Spatial data mining with intelligent agents for E-commerce. The current explosion of spatial data enables many new kinds of queries, but also raises technical issues. This project investigates such questions for online spatial data mining within the NSW Land and Property Information. The LPI will place its cadastral and land title information online during 2001 and plans to develop links to outside data holdings. These activities raise three key questions, with widespread relevance to other syst ....Spatial data mining with intelligent agents for E-commerce. The current explosion of spatial data enables many new kinds of queries, but also raises technical issues. This project investigates such questions for online spatial data mining within the NSW Land and Property Information. The LPI will place its cadastral and land title information online during 2001 and plans to develop links to outside data holdings. These activities raise three key questions, with widespread relevance to other systems: finding practical approaches to processing queries in a distributed data warehouse; using adaptive agents to create robust, flexible spatial query systems; and identifying organizational models for commercialization of online spatial queries.Read moreRead less
Governing the Compact City: The Role and Effectiveness of Strata Management in Higher Density Residential Developments. The research will deliver systematic information about the operation of the strata system that regulates the majority of residential higher density housing in Australia. It will assist strata residents and owners and those involved in strata management and policy development to better understand the nature and scale of issues facing the strata sector and its capacity to self-m ....Governing the Compact City: The Role and Effectiveness of Strata Management in Higher Density Residential Developments. The research will deliver systematic information about the operation of the strata system that regulates the majority of residential higher density housing in Australia. It will assist strata residents and owners and those involved in strata management and policy development to better understand the nature and scale of issues facing the strata sector and its capacity to self-manage these issues. It will therefore build an informed evidence base to support improved best practice and policy development across the sector. In addition, the research will make a major contribution to the emerging academic literature on local urban governance in higher density cities.Read moreRead less
Deep Pattern Mining for Dynamic Real-time Enterprise Scale Pricing. This project aims to build a pricing framework, based on deep pattern mining, to enable dynamic real-time pricing for large enterprises. It aims to advance existing business intelligence pricing models from policy driven to achieve deep pattern driven real-time pricing. The deep pattern mining addresses critical and under-developed knowledge discovery and data mining issues. Detailed research topics include a probabilistic data ....Deep Pattern Mining for Dynamic Real-time Enterprise Scale Pricing. This project aims to build a pricing framework, based on deep pattern mining, to enable dynamic real-time pricing for large enterprises. It aims to advance existing business intelligence pricing models from policy driven to achieve deep pattern driven real-time pricing. The deep pattern mining addresses critical and under-developed knowledge discovery and data mining issues. Detailed research topics include a probabilistic data model, an extracted deep feature representation, a deep pattern mining algorithm, and a prototype system for pricing determination. The project outcomes aim to empower enterprises with real-time dynamic pricing capability, as well as building theoretical foundations to strengthen world leadership by Australian businesses.Read moreRead less