Copyright, Property and the Social Contract

Part I: Copyright and Developing Countries: Copyright Legacy and Developing Countries: Important Lessons for Nigeria's Emerging Copyright Reform by Adebambo Adewopo.- Embracing Open Policies to Enable Access to Information: The EDO State Open Data Portal by Kunle Ola.- Copyright in the Palestinian Territories: Setting the Scene by Rawan Al Tamimi.- Copyright Law in Indonesia: From a Hybrid to an Endogenous System? by Christoph Antons.- Copyright and (Dis)harmonisation: Can Developing Nations Prioritise Their Own Public Good in a Global Copyright Hegemony? by Mark Perry.- Part II: Government and Copyright: Australia-US Copyright Relations: An Unhurried View of the Reciprocal Protection of Literary Works by John S Gilchrist.- The Adoption of the American Model of Fair Use in the U.A.E Copyright Law by Rami Olwan.- Digitising the Public Domain: Non-original Photographs in Comparative EU Copyright Law by Thomas Margoni.- Part III: Copyright, Technology and the Future: Copyright in the Age of Access by Brian Fitzgerald.- The Royalties System and Paratrophic Copyright by Ben Atkinson.- Copyright According to Google by Jo Gray.- Dead Cats in the Mail: Dallas Buyers Club and the Emergence of the User in Australian Intermediary Copyright Law by Kylie Pappalardo and Carrick Brough.- The Making Available Right: Problems with "the Public" by Cheryl Foong.

John Gilchrist is a Senior Research Fellow in Law at the Australian Catholic University.  He holds postgraduate degrees and qualifications from four Australian Universities.  He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.

Dr Gilchrist has been involved with intellectual property as a policy and practicing lawyer and as an academic over a period of four decades. He was the Secretary of the Australian Copyright Law Committee on Reprographic Reproduction (the Franki Committee) and a member of the Australian Copyright Law Review Committee on its Crown Copyright reference. He has published numerous articles and a monograph on government copyright issues.

Brian Fitzgerald is Professor of Law at the Australian Catholic University and was the Foundation Dean of Law from 2012-2015. He holds postgraduate degrees in law from Oxford University and Harvard University and a current practising certificateas a Barrister.