The disruptive potential of digital technologies has become a hot topic in recent years. There are calls for governments to add or remove regulations, invest in digital start ups, and protect the jobs of workers threatened by new ways of doing business. This research paper reviews and interprets expert opinion on disruption in order to...

Main key points Intellectual property (IP) arrangements need to balance the interests of rights holders with users. IP arrangements should: encourage investment in IP that would not otherwise occur provide the minimum incentives necessary to encourage that investment resist impeding follow-on innovation, competition and access to goods and services. Improvements are needed so Australia's copyright...

Australia gained some concessions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations. But this is still the wrong way to manage our international trade and investment, writes John Quiggin.

This report argues that that Australia's current process for treaty-making falls short on a number of counts, and recommends changes.

Pacific islands artifacts and imageries have had a strong appeal to the popular imagination of the West over the years. However, in recent years the question of ownership of intellectual property rights has emerged as many indigenous groups around the world call for the repatriation of their cultural objects taken away, with or without their...