• Francis Gurry
• The World Intellectual Property Organization

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15 March 2011On Friday, 25 February 2011 the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation and the QUT Faculty of Law’s Intellectual Property: Knowledge, Culture, Economy research program hosted the Blue Sky conference at The Bathers’ Pavilion, Balmoral, Sydney. The conference was convened by Professor Brian Fitzgerald and Ben Atkinson.

‘Blue sky’ refers to Professor Lawrence Lessig’s call, at a recent WIPO conference, for a WIPO-sponsored ‘blue sky commission’ to lead reform of copyright, “The most inefficient property system known to man”. At the same conference, Dr Gurry affirmed WIPO’s commitment to making copyright work in the digital environment. He stated the principle that the object of copyright regulation is to ensure the “widest possible availability of cultural works” while “affording a viable economic base for culture.”