Making tomorrow better

Macquarie Law School researchers seek to serve the common good, identifying core societal challenges and providing solutions to the real-world issues facing us all.

We drive a deliberate agenda of making tomorrow better. Our researchers bring Macquarie Law School to the global stage with their passion for innovation, collaboration and commitment to realising positive societal change, not just in our own region, but around the world.

Our projects include:

There is a widely acknowledged gap between who copyright law considers to be an ‘author’ of a film and who, in fact, is a creative participant in the making of a film. The aim of this project is to generate insights that allow us to more clearly define and better understand the extent of this gap and to reflect on why it matters.

The project brings together expertise in creative practice, cognition and copyright law to inquire into collaborative creativity in the context of filmmaking. As collaboration is an increasingly important way of working in the modern digital age, the insights from this work have a broader relevance insofar as they tend to challenge theories of authorship which operate to occlude the contributions of non-dominant creative collaborators and help us better understand how the process of collaboration actually works.

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Along with our industry partner, the Australian Wine & Grape Inc, this multi-university collaboration works to investigate claims of the EU to exclusive use of grape names such as Prosecco as Geographical Indications under the WTO TRIPS Agreement.

It is expected that new and detailed understanding, produced by this project, of the legal and evidentiary bases for these claims, will be highly influential in Australian-EU Free Trade Agreement negotiations.

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