The topic of copyright can leave organisations feeling overwhelmed due to the complex nature of rights and licences, pricing, the scale of use or misuse online, and the underlying risks of litigation. As technology continues to evolve, organisations have further issues to overcome. These include dealing with or avoiding online infringement, the use and misuse of AI, dealing with collective licensing, combatting piracy and maintaining control over content shared internationally.

We advise copyright owners and copyright users on these issues across a range of sectors. We have acted extensively for clients in the software, media and entertainment industries, including major sports, subscription television and video on demand providers, free-to-air television, newspaper publishers and radio broadcasters. We also support the copyright needs of the Education sector, including Government, Catholic and Independent School bodies, in addition to Higher Education.

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Knowledge and expertise

We work closely with clients across the full scope of their Intellectual Property requirements:

How we can help

Our practice has unparalleled experience acting for both copyright owners and users, and for large industry groups in complex licencing disputes. We have also shaped the remedies available to copyright owners, acting in the original and subsequent development of site blocking applications in Australia.

Our services include:

• negotiating and representing clients in disputes with copyright collecting societies, including in relation to music licencing;
• representing clients in complex Copyright Tribunal proceedings, including for representative industry bodies and associations;
• representing clients in contested Federal Court enforcement and infringement defence proceedings, and in other dispute resolution processes;
• acting in Full Court of the Federal Court and High Court of Australia appellate proceedings;
• copyright transactions and licensing; and
• copyright advisory and counselling.