Professor Isabella Alexander, Faculty of Law, UTS

Isabella Alexander is a professor and Director of Higher Degree Research in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. She is the author of two monographs on the history of copyright law: Copyright and Cartography: History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge (Hart Publishing, 2023), and Copyright and the Public Interest in the Nineteenth Century (Hart Publishing, 2010). She is also co-editor, with Tomas Gomez-Arostegui, of Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law (Edward Elgar, 2016) and currently the lead Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery grant, Hacking Copyright Law in the 21st Century: Art, Law, History and Technology.

Eli Fisher, Hall & Wilcox

Eli Fisher is a Special Counsel at Hall & Wilcox. Eli is a commercial lawyer and adviser to the media, entertainment and tech industries, particularly in relation to intellectual property; production, content and talent; privacy, cybersecurity and data management; technology procurement and licensing; AdTech, advertising and publishing laws; and competition and consumer regulation. Prior to joining Hall & Wilcox, Eli worked in-house at Paramount, where he worked on the legals for Paramount+, Network Ten and MTV Australia programs and talent. Eli co-edits the Communications Law Bulletin, sits on the Board of CAMLA and was a Board member of the Copyright Society for many years. He completed his Masters of Laws degree (graduating with excellence) at UNSW, dual-specialising in Media & Technology Law, and Innovation Law, where he was awarded the “best performing postgraduate student across all postgraduate programs at the law school”. In 2024, Eli was named by Australasian Lawyer as one of Australia’s most influential lawyers.

Rebecca Smith, Gilbert + Tobin

Rebecca Smith is a Special Counsel in the Intellectual Property group at Gilbert + Tobin. She advises Australian and international clients in IP‑intensive industries on strategic IP commercialisation, brand protection and enforcement issues, with particular expertise in media and entertainment, luxury brands, FMCG, emerging technologies and cross-border matters. In this context, Rebecca has extensive experience advising on copyright and moral rights issues and in managing IP and contract litigation at trial and appellate level. She is a member of the Management Committee of the Copyright Society of Australia and co-developed and co-teaches the UNSW postgraduate law course “Intellectual Property & Tech Commercialisation: Strategic Management of the Lifecycle of Innovation”. Rebecca trained at Freshfields in London, where she spent time on secondment at a major global computer entertainment company and in Paris. She has a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Hons) and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney.