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Graham Greenleaf

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Rudd Government abandons border security of privacy

Is protecting our personal information less important than border protection for narcotics, immigration or quarantine? asks Graham Greenleaf

National and international dimensions of copyright's public domain (an Australian case study)

Australians continue to make very substantial contributions to the development of open source software and thus to the Internet's global infrastructure, according to this paper

All change or plus ça change . . .? The global financial crisis and four key drivers of the world economy

This paper asks whether the changing facts about the world economy are so significant that we have to change our minds about the fundamental ways in which the world now works

Improving privacy legislation in New South Wales

This submission to the NSW Law Reform Commission is in response to the Commission's June 2008 Privacy Legislation in New South Wales consultation paper

Doha's demise

This paper considers Tuesday's failure in world trade talks and outlines the three important sets of issues that have been raised by this latest collapse in negotiations

Unlocking IP to stimulate Australian innovation: An issues paper

'Public rights' in intellectual goods (the broad usage of 'the public domain'), are increasingly important as a driver of innovation in information economies

Legal information institutes and the free access to law movement

This article surveys the group of free access providers of legal information known as 'the Legal Information Institutes' ('LII's) or 'the Free Access to Law Movement' and gives a brief description of each legal information institute

Not a fair trade: Australia's TPM protection and AUSFTA-inspired reforms

The exposure draft for the Copyright Amendment (Technological Protection Measures) Bill 2006 was released with the aim of replacing Australia's existing technological protection measure scheme

'Access all areas': function creep guaranteed in Australia's ID Card Bill

Graham Greenleaf argues that the federal government's 'access card' proposals should be rejected by parliament

Creating commons by friendly appropriation

Graham Greenleaf argues that the operation of internet-wide search engines constitutes the creation of an intellectual commons

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