Launch of the Asian Pacific Copyright Association

29 May 2015

Susan Corbett and presenters — Associate Professor Susan Corbett, General Secretary of APCA and its driving force, introduced the four presenters: Susy Frankel, Professor of Law at Victoria University and Chair of the Copyright Tribunal; Lida Ayoubi, PhD candidate in Law at Victoria University; Jonathan Barrett, Senior Lecturer in the School of Accounting and Commercial Law at Victoria University and Kate Duckworth, Partner at Catalyst Intellectual Property and a leading intellectual property specialist.

“Would the Asian Pacific region benefit from harmonisation of copyright laws throughout the region?” was the topic on the menu at a breakfast Business Links Seminar held on 20 May.

Organised jointly by the Centre of Accounting, Governance and Taxation Research (CAGTR) and the Asian Pacific Copyright Association (APCA), the seminar was attended by lawyers and people involved with copyright. It was also an opportunity to introduce APCA to the public for the first time.

Associate Professor Corbett also acknowledged Professor Adrian Sterling, an expert in copyright and founder of APCA. Professor Sterling, who resides in England, sent a message to participants. “From the point of view of the individual countries of the region, harmonisation will assist in the local administration of rights, for instance by establishing principles concerning justiciability and applicable law,” he wrote.

At the end of the seminar, APCA president Brent McAnulty outlined the importance of having a copyright voice in the Asia Pacific and encouraged attendees to join ACPA.