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Publications Graeme Austin

Books

  • Across Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Sam Ricketson (Cambridge University Press, March 2020) (co-editor with: Andrew F Christie, Andrew T Kenyon and Megan Richardson (eds)).
  • International Intellectual Property and the ASEAN Way: Pathways to Interoperability (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017) (co editor with Elizabeth Siew-Kuan Ng).
  • Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface (Cambridge University Press, 2011) (co-author, with Laurence R Helfer).
    Available at: SSRN
  • International Intellectual Property Law and Policy (2d ed, 2008) (co-author, with Graeme B Dinwoodie, William O Hennessey, & Shira Perlmutter).
  • International Intellectual Property and the Common Law World (2000) (co-editor, with Charles EF Rickett, & author of Copyright Across (and Within) Domestic Borders 105).
  • Trapski's Family Law, Volume 6a, The Matrimonial Property Act of 1976 (1995) (co-author, with V Grainer & V Urlich).
  • Children: Stories the Law Tells (1994).

            Edited Collections

            • (with Jessica Palmer) (2016) 47(2) Victoria University of Wellington: Special Issue: Papers from the 2016 New Zealand Private Law Roundtable pp 150.
            • (with Jessica Palmer) (2016) 47(3) Victoria University of Wellington: Special Issue: Papers from the 2016 New Zealand Private Law Roundtable pp 158.

            Articles in books

            • "Connecting Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Law School Syllabus" in Graeme Austin, Andrew F Christie, Andrew T Kenyon and Megan Richardson (eds)) Across Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Sam Ricketson (Cambridge University Press, March 2020) pp 189-200.
            • (with Andrew F Christie, Andrew T Kenyon and Megan Richardson) "Introduction" in Graeme Austin, Andrew F Christie, Andrew T Kenyon and Megan Richardson (eds)) Across Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Sam Ricketson (Cambridge University Press, March 2020) pp1-8.
            • "Authors' Human Rights in the Intellectual Property Framework" in Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss and Elizabeth Siew-Kuan Ng (eds) Framing Intellectual Property Law in the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018).
            • "Cooperation through Conflict of Laws: The Justiciability of Cross-Border Copyright Infringement" in Elizabeth Siew-Kuan Ng and Graeme W Austin (eds) International Intellectual Property and the ASEAN Way: Pathways to Interoperability (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017) pp 111-127.
            • "Common Law Pragmatism: New Zealand's Approach to Secondary Liability of Internet Service Providers" in Graeme B Dinwoodie (ed) Secondary Liability of Internet Service Providers (Springer, Switzerland, 2017) pp 213-227.
            • "Entertaining Foreign copyrights" in Megan Richardson and Sam Ricketson (eds) Research Handbook on Intellectual Property in Media and Entertainment (Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK, 2017) pp 245-264.
              Available at: SSRN
            • "New technologies and the scale of copyright infringement: Should size matter to liability?" in Susy Frankel and Daniel Gervais (eds) The Evolution and Equilibrium of Copyright in the Digital Age (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014) pp 203-220.
            • "Introduction: The Inevitability of 'territoriality challenges'" in Irene Calboli and Edward Lee (eds) Trademark Protection and Territoriality Challenges in a Global Economy (Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham UK, 2013) pp 1-14.
            • "The Regulation of Consumer Credit Products: Interrogating Assumptions about the Objects of Regulation" in Susy Frankel and Deborah Ryder (eds) Recalibrating Behaviour: Smarter Regulation in a Global World (LexisNexis, Wellington, 2013) pp 305-328
            • "Radio: Early Battles over the Public Performance Right" in Brad Sherman and Leanne Wiseman (eds) Copyright and the Challenge of the New (Wolters Kluwer, The Netherlands, 2012) pp 115-140.
              Available at: SSRN
            • "Reproduction Rights in the US Trade Mark Law" in Andrew T Kenyon, Ng-Loy Wee Loon and Megan Richardson (eds) The Law of Reputation and Brands in the Asia Pacific (Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2012) pp 119-141.
            • "Intellectual Property Liability of Consumers, Facilitators and Intermediaries: The Position in Australia and New Zealand" in Christopher Heath and Anselm Kamperman Sanders (eds) Intellectual Property Liability of Consumers, Facilitators and Intermediaries (Wolters Kluwer, The Netherlands, 2012) pp 177-194.
            • "The Regulation of Consumer Credit Products: An Examination of Baseline Assumptions in Susy Frankel (ed) Learning from the Past, Adapting for the Future: Regulatory Reform in New Zealand (Lexis Nexis, Wellington 2011) pp 295-310.
            • "Global Networks and Domestic Laws: Some Private International Law Issues arising from Australian and US Liability Theories" in Alain Strowel (ed) Peer-To-Peer File Sharing and Secondary Liability in Copyright Law 124 (2009) (an updated version of a paper at 22 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech LJ 576 (2006)).
            • "Copyright Law Reform Through a Human Rights Lens" in Paul LC Torremans (ed) Intellectual Property and Human Rights 257 (2008) (co-author, with Amy G Zavidow).
              Available at: SSRN
            • "Tolerating Confusion about Confusion: Trademark Policies and Fair Use" in Graeme B Dinwoodie & Mark Janis (eds) Trademark Law and Theory 368 (2008) and 50 Ariz L Rev 157 (2008).
              Available at: SSRN | Hein Online | Westlaw | Lexis
            • "The Territoriality of US Trademark Law" in Peter K Yu (ed) 3 Intellectual Property and Information Wealth: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age 235 (2007).
              Available at: SSRN
            • "The Story of Steele v Bulova: Trademarks on the Line" in Jane C Ginsburg & Rachel Cooper Dreyfuss (eds) Intellectual Property Stories 395 (2006) SSRN.
            • "Equity in Family Law" in Andrew Butler (ed) Equity and Trusts in New Zealand 1179 (2003).
            • "Family Law in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Facing Ideologies" in John Eekelaar & Ronald T Nhlapo (eds) The Changing Family 9 (1998) (co-author, with  WR Atkin).
            • "Cross Cultural Challenges in Family Law in Aotearoa/New Zealand" in Nigel V Lowe & Gillian Douglas (eds) Families Across Frontiers (1996) (co-author, with WR Atkin).

            Articles

            • "'This Is a Complex Issue': A Few More Questions about Fair Use" 28(3) 01 Mar 2018 Australian Intellectual Property Journal pp 97-106 SSRN.
            • "Trademarks and Private Environmental Governance" (2017) 93 Notre Dame Law Review pp 709-56 (with David Adelman). Available at: SSRN
            • "Authors' Human Rights and Copyright Policy" (2017) 40(4) Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts pp 405-429. Available at: SSRN
            • "The Consumer in Cross-Border Passing Off Cases" (2016) 47(2) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review Special Issue: Papers from the 2016 New Zealand Private Law Roundtable pp 191-208.
              Available at: SSRN
            • "EU and US Perspectives on Fair Dealing for the Purpose of Parody or Satire" (2016) 39(2) UNSW Law Journal pp 684-714. Available at: SSRN
              Available at: SSRN
            • "The Guts of a Torts Class" (2015) 46 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp 769-788.
            • "Property on the Line: Life on the Frontier between Copyright and the Public Domain" (2013) 44(1) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp 1-16.
              Available at: SSRN
            • "The Two Faces of Fair Use" (2012) 25 New Zealand Universities Law Review pp 285-317.
              Available at: SSRN
            • "The Concept of 'Justiciability' in Foreign Copyright Infringement Cases" 40 Int’l Rev Intell Prop & Competition L 393 (2009). Available at: SSRN
            • "International Copyright Law & Domestic Constitutional Doctrines" 30 Colum JL & Arts 337 (2007).
              Available at: SSRN | Westlaw | Lexis
            • "Essay: Family Law and Civil Union Partnerships—Status, Contract and Access to Symbols" 37 Victoria University of Wellington L Rev 183 (2006).
              Available at: SSRN | Westlaw
            • "Importing Kazaa—Exporting Grokster" 22 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech LJ 577 (2006), also published as Kazaa and Grokster Across Borders, 11 Media & Arts L Rev 355 (2006).
              Available at: SSRN | Hein Online | Westlaw | Lexis
            • "The Metamorphosis of Authors' Rights in the Digital Era" 28 Colum JL & Arts 397 (2005).
              Available at: Hein Online | Westlaw | Lexis
            • "The Berne Convention as a Canon of Construction: Moral Rights After Dastar" 61 NYU Ann Surv Am L 111 (2005).
              Available at: SSRN | Hein Online | Westlaw | Lexis
            • "Intellectual Property Politics and the Private International Law of Copyright Ownership" 30 Brook J Int'l L 899 (2005).
              Available at: SSRN | Hein Online | Westlaw | Lexis
            • "Trademarks and the Burdened Imagination" 69 Brooklyn L Rev 827 (2004).
              Available at: Hein Online | Westlaw | Lexis
            • "Copyright's Modest Ontology: Theory and Pragmatism in Eldred v Ashcroft" 16 Can JL & Juris 163 (2003). Available at: SSRN
              Available at: SSRN | Hein Online | Westlaw | Lexis
            • "Re-Treating Intellectual Property? The WAI 262 Proceeding and the Heuristics of Intellectual Property Law" 11 Cardozo J Int'l & Comp L 333 (2003).
              Available at: Hein Online | Westlaw | Lexis
            • "Does the Copyright Clause Mandate Isolationism?" 26 Colum JL & Arts 17 (2002).
              Available at: SSRN | Hein Online | Westlaw | Lexis
            • "Valuing 'Domestic Self-Determination' in International Intellectual Property Jurisprudence" 77 Chi-Kent L Rev 1155 (2002).
              Available at: Hein Online | Westlaw | Lexis
            • "Trade Marks On-Line: The WIPO and Paris Union Joint Recommendation on the Protection of Marks on the Internet" 8 N.Z. Bus. L.Q. 92 (2002).
            • "Copyright Infringement in New Zealand's Private International Law" 19 NZUL Rev 1 (2000).
              Available at: Westlaw
            • "Social Policy Choices and Choice of Law for Copyright Infringement in Cyberspace" 79 Or L Rev 575 (2000).
              Available at: SSRN | Hein Online | Westlaw | Lexis | Other Link
            • "Internet Domain Names, Jurisdiction, and the Territorial Nature of Goodwill" 1 NZ Bus LQ 85 (1999).
            • "Domestic Laws and Foreign Rights: Choice of Law in Transnational Copyright Infringement Litigation" 23 Colum-VLA JL & Arts 1 (1999).
              Available at: Hein Online | Westlaw | Lexis
            • "Queering Family Law" 8 Australasian Gay & Lesbian LJ 39 (1999).
            • "The Law of Family Property" 1998 NZ L Rev 645.
            • "The Infringement of Foreign Intellectual Property Rights" 113 Law Q Rev 321 (1997).
            • "Children's Rights in New Zealand Law and Society" 25 Victoria University of Wellington L Rev 249 (1995).
            • "The Treaty of Waitangi and Child Custody: Some Legal and Rhetorical Issues" 10 Austl J L & Soc'y 85 (1994).

            Other writings

            • "Book Review: The Commercial Appropriation of Fame: A Cultural Analysis of the Right of Publicity and Passing Off by David Tan" (2017) 28 Australian Intellectual Property Journal pp 32-34.
            • (with Jessica Palmer) "Introduction" (2016) 47(2) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review Special Issue: Papers from the 2016 New Zealand Private Law Roundtable pp 187-188.
            • Book Review: Tort law defences by James Goudkamp's (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2013) in New Zealand Law Journal p 2.
            • Book Review, 13 Media & Arts L Rev. 133 (2008) (reviewing Katja S Ziegler ed, Human Rights and Private Law: Privacy as Autonomy (2007)).
            • "Partition—De Facto Couples—Property Law Act 1952, s140", 7 Butterworths Conveyancing Bull, Feb 1998, at 284.
            • "Foreign Intellectual Property Rights in the English Courts—A Common Law Perspective" NZ Intell Prop J, Feb 1998, at 284.
            • "New Zealand Copyrights In Conflict" NZ Bus LQ 85 (1995).
            • "The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and Domestic Law" Butterworths Fam LJ, June 1994, at 1, reprinted in Youth Law Review, June-July-Aug 1996, at 12 and at 7.
            • "Departure Orders—Gyselman Affirmed in New Zealand" 7 Austl J Fam L 98 (1993).
            • "Forcing Access Parents to Share the Load" 1992 NZ LJ 379.
            • "Righting a Child's Right to Refuse Medical Treatment: Section 11 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights and the Gillick Competent Child" 7 Otago L Rev 578 (1992).
            • Book Review, 21 Victoria University of Wellington L Rev 417 (1991) (reviewing Martha Fineman, The Illusion of Equality: The Rhetoric and Reality of Divorce Reform (1991)).
            • "The Guardianship Act 1968—A Status Statute?" 3 Fam L Bull 14 (1991).
            • "Custody and Access—Psychiatric Reports" 3 Fam L Bull 43 (1991).
            • "Maori Fishing Rights in the New Zealand Courts: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries v Pono Hakaria and Tony Scott" 19 U W Austl L Rev 401 (1989).

            Presentations

            • "Copyright and Human Rights" to the Corporate Governance and Intellectual Property Policy (CGIPP) team at the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment on 9 September 2019.
            • "Functionality Exclusions" at Design Law Reform Conference (EW Barker Centre for Law & Business, NUS Faculty of Law, Singapore, 19–20 September 2017).
            • "Is Fair Use a Fair Go?" at the 31st Annual Conference of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand, Gold Coast, Australia 8–10 September 2017.
            • "Trademarks and Private Environmental Governance" seminar for The Sheffield Institute of Corporate and Commercial Law, at University of Sheffield, Sheffield UK, 24 May 2017.
            • "Trademarks and Private Governance" CIPIL lunchtime seminar at University of Cambridge, Kings College, Cambridge UK 19 May 2017.
            • "Trademarks and Private Governance" seminar at University of Oxford, St Peter's College Oxford, UK 18 May 2017.
            • "Digital Copyright and E-commerce Provisions in Bilateral and Regional Agreements in Asia" at WIPO-WTO Colloquium for Intellectual Property Teachers and Researchers in Asia organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO); in cooperation with Singapore Management University (SMU) (20–22 February 2017, Singapore).
            • "Developments in copyright law in the UK/EU and Australia" at 4th Developments in IP Law Series (IP Academy, Singapore, 16 Feb 2017).
            • Commentary on "Fair Use in the Digital Economy: Phoenix Center Policy Paper Number 51" NZCIEL Innovation and Investment Lecture Series 2016–2017 (Wellington, 20 September 2016) pp 1-3.
            • "Current events, 'fair dealing', and the citizen journalist" at Lawyers in Government Conference: Advising the Future (Wellington, 19 August 2016).
            • "Fair Dealing, Human Rights, Liability Rules, and the Citizen Journalist" at Comparative Dimensions of Limitations and Exceptions in Copyright Law (National University of Singapore, Singapore, 21–22 July 2016).
            • "Cartographic Formalism, and the Properties of Goodwill" at Private Law Roundtable (Wellington, 22–23 February 2016).
            • "ASEAN IP Interoperability Project" at International Intellectual Property Law: Ways to Interoperability in ASEAN & Beyond (NUS, Singapore, 16 January 2016).
            • "Trademarks are like sex" at Media & IP Law Conference, University of Melbourne (Melbourne, November 2015).
            • "Cooperation through Conflicts" at National University of Singapore: Intellectual Property Interoperability: ASEAN & Beyond Conference (Singapore, August, 2015).
            • "Anglo American Developments in Private International Law" at Singapore Intellectual Property Academy: Global Forum on Intellectual Property 2015 conference (Singapore, August, 2015).
            • "The Consumer in Different Trade Mark Contexts" at Seventh Trademark Scholars Roundtable: The Construction of the Consumer in Trade Mark Law (Oxford, June, 2015).
            • "Motion: Trade Marks Should be Kept in Their Place" The Great Trade Marks Debate (Melbourne, December 2014).
            • "Getting Author-focused Human Rights to the Policy Table", National University of Singapore, 15 August, 2014. Invited Paper Presentation. Conference on Framing Intellectual Property Law in the 21st Century: Integrating Incentives, Trade, Development, Culture and Human Rights, to mark the launch of the NUS Centre for Law and Business.
            • (with Prof Irene Calboli) "Trademark Protection and Territoriality Challenges in a Global Economy: Impact to and Perspective from Asia" Seminar at National University of Singapore, Centre for Asian Legal Studies, Faculty of Law (Singapore, February, 2014).
            • "IP & Free Expression and Access to Information" at Intellectual Property and Human Rights, American University Washington College of Law, Washington DC, February 2013.
            • "Copyright and Human Rights, Conflicts and accommodations" lecture at Columbia Law School, Kernochan Center for Law, Media and Arts, Spring 2013 IP Speaker Series, 19 February 2013.
            • "Rights in Culture in Aotearoa, New Zealand: Treaty Rights and Human Rights" at the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas (Texas, November, 2011).
            • "Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface" Workshop at Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School (Durham, North Carolina, October, 2011).
            • Public Lecture, Privacy and Copyright, Arts Law Centre of Australia & Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, 16 June 2011.
            • Panelist and Presenter, Secondary Liability for Copyright Infringement: Australia and New Zealand, Institute of European Studies, Macao, 24 May 2011.
            • Panelist and Presenter, Recent Developments in Australian Copyright Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 21 May 2011.
            • (with Laurence R Helfer) "Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface" seminar at Melbourne Law School (Melbourne, May, 2011).
            • (with Laurence R Helfer) "Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface" seminar at Melbourne Law School (Sydney, May, 2011).
            • (with Laurence R Helfer) "Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface" NZCPL lecture (May, Wellington, 2011).
            • Invited speaker, Authorial Creativity at the Boundaries of Privacy and Copyright Law, New Zealand Society for Law and Social Philosophy, Wellington 15 March 2011.
            • Lecture, El intercambio de Obras Protegidas por el Derecho de Autor a través de plataformas “Peer to Peer” (Aspectos de Derechos Internacional en la Jurisprudencia) (Colegio Público de Abogados de la Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, June 9, 2009).
            • Paper Presentation, What's Public about the Public Domain? Is Copyright's Flipside a Flop? (National Digital Forum, Auckland, NZ, Nov 28, 2008).
            • Paper Presentation, Freedom of Expression as a Price Regulator in Copyright Markets (Centre for Media & Communication Law, Melbourne Univ, Nov 21, 2008).
            • Guest Lecture, Transnational Issues in Copyright (Intellectual Property Society of Australia & New Zealand, Adelaide, Australia, Sept 20, 2008).
            • Lecture, Copyright Law Reform through a Human Rights Lens (Guest Lecture Series, Law School, Melbourne University, May 6, 2008).
            • Introductory Remarks, The Trademark Use Debate (Trademark Scholars Roundtable, Univ. Iowa College of Law, Apr 12, 2008).
            • Speaker, Copyright Law Reform through a Human Rights Lens (Law Faculty Works-in-Progress Workshop, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Mar 4, 2008).
            • Public Lecture, Making Copyright Safe for Parody and Satire: A View from the United States (Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, July 2, 2007).
            • Paper Presentation & Discussant, Internationalizing Constitutional Scrutiny of Domestic Copyright Laws (Copyright & the Constitution Conf, Columbia Univ. School Law, Oct 27, 2006).
            • Paper Presentation, Grokster and Kazaa across Borders (Conf Cross-Border Communications: Legal Liability & Dispute Resolution, Center for Media & Communications Law, Univ Melbourne Law School, May 16, 2006).
            • Panelist, Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program (Michigan State Univ College of Law, Apr 7–8, 2006).
            • Discussant, International Law Roundtable (Vanderbilt Univ. Law School, Mar 24–25, 2006).
            • Public Lecture & Guest Speaker, Liability of P2P Software and Service Providers in US and Elsewhere (Columbia University Law School, Kernochan Center for Law Media and the Arts, Jan 31, 2006). (with Professor Tim Wu, Columbia University Law School).
            • Panel Presentation, International Aspects of P2P Litigation (Arizona State Univ School of Law, Oct 21, 2005).
            • Lead Panel Paper, Importing Kazaa—Exporting Grokster (Conf. on Third Party Liability in Intellectual Property, Santa Clara Univ School of Law, Oct 7, 2005).
            • Faculty paper presentation, Trademarks Across Borders (Victoria University of Wellington Law School, Dec 2004).
            • Keynote Address, The Metamorphosis of Authors' Rights in the Digital Era (Columbia Law School Conf, Nov 2004).
            • Speaker, De-Constitutionalizing Copyright (Copyright Future Direction Future Agendas Conf, Univ Queensland, Feb 2004).
            • Panelist, International Panel on Intellectual Property, Theoretical Underpinnings or Pure Pragmatism? (Univ Western Ontario, Canada/Center for Innovation Policy, Feb 10, 2003).
            • Presentation, Copyright's Thin Bargain Theory (Univ Western Ontario, Canada/Center for Innovation Policy, Feb 10, 2003).
            • Presenter, Trademarks and the Burdened Imagination (NYU Law School, Colloquium on Innovation Policy, Jan 30, 2003).
            • Workshop, Constitutional Scrutiny and the Mythologizing of Copyright's Fundamental Values (Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, Melbourne University, Australia, Aug 7, 2002).
            • Public Presentation, Constitutional Scrutiny and the Mythologizing of Copyright's Fundamental Values (New Zealand Centre for Public Law, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, July 30, 2002).
            • Speaker, Copyright in the Digital Era (Managing Copyright in a Digital Environment Pgm, Univ Ariz, Tucson, Ariz, Mar 1, 2002).
            • Invited Speaker, The Role of Territoriality in Intellectual Property Law (Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Ill, 2001).
            • Speaker, The Private International Law of Intellectual Property: A Common Law Overview (World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2001).
            • Invited Speaker, Facing Ideologies in Family Law (University of Durban, South Africa).
            • Invited Speaker, Cross-Cultural Challenges in Family Law (Cardiff University, Wales, UK 1995).