Why Listen To Me
I make my assertion after 40 years as an Intellectual Property professor, practitioner and Intellectual Property law reformer in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, China. I was appointed by the Prime Minister as a member of the Australian Copyright Law Review Committee for two references and by the Governor of Western Australia as Chair of the West Australian Law Reform Commission. I was a member of the Law Reform Commission Subcommittee on Copyright and that on Privacy and Breach of Confidence in Hong Kong, China. I’m a Mediator, Arbitrator and Domain Name Neutral for the World Intellectual Property Organisation WIPO. I’ve worked for major international IP law firms like Baker and McKenzie and Deacons. I’ve written twelve books and over 100 articles on Intellectual Property – see here.
Whose Barrow am I Pushing
I am not beholden to any particular interest group, right holders, corporations, consumers, political action groups. I am merely addressing the fundamental mechanisms by which intellectual property laws function. Failed mechanisms. Most experienced IP lawyers agree but they don’t see the point of, or it’s not in their interest to say so. Examples of these failures follow here and in turn, so does a more detailed explanation.