International Expert Panel: Productivity - A New Challenge for Copyright
In response to the latest challenges to copyright law around the world, the Copyright Society of Australia is delighted to present The Hon Justice Stephen Burley (Federal Court of Australia) in discussion with international copyright experts Professor Daryl Lim (Penn State Dickson Law, USA), Professor Alain Strowel (UCLouvain and University of Alicante, EU) and Associate Professor Rita Matulionyte, (Macquarie Law School, Australia).
In the last two decades much of the debate about copyright law has been about how the rights of creators should be balanced against the rights of the tech industry, particularly intermediaries. This has led to unresolved disputes over where the balance should be struck between the rights of copyright owners and of copyright users.
AI has introduced new, and fundamental, challenges to copyright, which have given rise to a discussion of a different type of balance – between productivity which AI claims to bring and copyright rights.
This session will investigate whether these issues can be reconciled and what the future holds for copyright in a post-productivity economy.
MODERATOR
The Hon Justice Stephen Burley, Federal Court of Australia
PANEL SPEAKERS
Professor Daryl Lim, Penn State Dickson Law (USA)
Professor Alain Strowel, UCLouvain (Belgium) and University of Alicante (Spain)
Associate Professor Rita Matulionyte, Macquarie Law School (Australia)
HYBRID EVENT
6pm-8:30pm
Tuesday 12 August, 2025
(Live Stream from 6:30pm)
CPD: 1 point
All members and friends are welcome.
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MODERATOR
The Hon Justice Stephen Burley
The Hon Justice Stephen Burley was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia on 23 May 2016.
His Honour graduated from the University of Sydney in Arts and Law and was admitted as a legal practitioner in 1987. He was subsequently awarded a Master of Laws from the London School of Economics and Political Science, in the United Kingdom. He was awarded an Associate in Music, Australia (AMusA) by the Australian Music Examinations Board in 1982.
Justice Burley practised at the Bar from 5 Wentworth Chambers, Sydney, from 1993 until 2016. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2007. Whilst at the Bar, his Honour practised in commercial law, specialising in patent, copyright, trade mark, designs and confidential information cases. He also appeared in cases involving trade practices, competition and consumer law, and administrative law. Many of his Honour’s patent cases involved pharmaceutical, telecommunications or other high technology subject matter.
Justice Burley hears cases in the Federal Court across a wide range of areas including intellectual property (including patents, trade marks, copyright and designs), administrative law, admiralty, commercial and corporations, and native title. His Honour is a national coordinating judge in the intellectual property practice area of the Federal Court and chair of the Federal Court’s International Cooperation Committee.
His Honour regularly contributes to publications and events hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organisation, an agency of the United Nations tasked with leading the development of a balanced and effective international IP system. His Honour is the series editor for the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s Intellectual Property Bench Books for the Philippines and Viet Nam.
His Honour also gives presentations and publishes on intellectual property subjects in Australia and abroad.
