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The Making Available Right: Realizing the Potential of Copyright’s Dissemination Function in the Digital Age by Dr. Cheryl Foong

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The Making Available Right: Realizing the Potential of Copyright’s Dissemination Function in the Digital Age by Dr. Cheryl Foong

By 31 October 2018No Comments

The Making Available Right: Realizing the Potential of Copyright’s Dissemination Function in the Digital Age.

Date: Friday 2 November 2018, 4PM

Venue: Room 207, 10 Professor’s Square


CREATe look forward to welcoming Dr. Cheryl Foong who is visiting us from Curtin Law School, Western Australia. Dr Foong’s presentation, The Making Available Right: Realizing the Potential of Copyright’s Dissemination Function in the Digital Age, will analyse the making available right as introduced by the WIPO Internet Treaties and evaluates current judicial approaches to the right in Australia, the US and the EU. It discusses the underlying justifications driving disparate decisions on the right, and reveals the pitfalls of existing approaches. Distilling lessons from current approaches, this presentation proposes principles for the interpretation of the making available right. These principles are aimed at aligning the development of the making available right with the vast communications potential afforded by the Internet.

Cheryl Foong is a Lecturer at Curtin Law School in Western Australia, where she teaches Intellectual Property law and Competition law. Cheryl publishes in the area of digital copyright, open access and internet law, and regularly speaks at national and international IP conferences. Cheryl has a Master of Laws from Columbia Law School in New York, and previously interned at the United States Copyright Office (Office of Policy and International Affairs) in Washington, DC. She is a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours graduate from Queensland University of Technology in Australia, and recently completed her PhD at the Australian Catholic University.

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