Dr Melissa deZwart

Publications

2007

Australia's Fair Dealing Exceptions: Do They Facilitate or Inhibit Creativity in the Production of the Television Comedy?, in TV Futures: Digital Television Policy in Australia, eds Andrew T. Kenyon, Melbourne University Press, Carlton Victoria Austrlalia, pp 166-195

The Future of Fair Dealing in Australia: Protecting Freedom of Communication, SCRIPT-ed, vol 4, issue 1, AHRC Centre for Research in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, University of Edinburgh, pp95-116

An Historical Analysis of the Birth of Fair Dealing and Fair Use: Lessons for the Digital Age, Intellectual Property Quarterly, vol 2007, issue 1, Sweet and Maxwell, London, pp60-91

The Copyright Amendment Act 2006: the new copyright expectations, Copyright Reporter, vol 25, issue 1, Australian Copyright Council, Strawberry Hills NSW Australia, pp4-20

Technological enclosure of copyright: The end of fair dealing?, Australian Intellectual Property Journal, vol 18, issue 1, Lawbook Co, Pyrmont NSW, pp7-38 

Book Review: Intellectual Property Stories, Media and Arts Law Review, vol 12, issue 1, LexisNexis, Chatswood NSW, pp136-140

Mobile Phones: Copyright in Content, Mobile Media 2007, 2-4 July, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW, pp. 276-287

Virtual Worlds: Copyright vs contract: the new frontier? 13th Biennial Copyright Law & Practice Symposium 2007, Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney, 22 & 23 November 2007

'Second Life vs Real law', SL Discovery Day,Monash University, Caulfield Campus, 17 November 2007

Copyright, Contract and Virtual Worlds, Second Life Best Practices in Education Conference (International Online Conferences) 25 May 2007

Contract, MySpace, YouTube and Second Life, Contracting in the Digital Age, Leo Cussen Institute, Melbourne, 21 March 2007

2006

‘Fair Use? Fair Dealing?’ (2006) 24(1) Copyright Reporter 20-37

'Copyright Exceptions - Book Review' (2006) 31(1) Monash University Law Review  216-221

'The Internet in 2006: A Global, Corporate or Community Constract?' (2006) 30 Melbourne University Law Review 1002-1007 (A review of Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu Who Controls The Internet, OUP, 2006 and Yochai Benkler The Wealth of Networks, Yale University Press, 2006)

Conference paper:
Buxton, K., Jackson., De Zwart, M.J., Webster, L. & Lindsay, D.F. 'Recorded lectures: Looking to the future', The 23rd Annual conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education: Who's Learning? Whose Technology? Sydney NSW, 3-6 December 2006. Sydney University Press (2006) 101-104

'The Future of fair Dealing in Australia: Protecting freedom of communication' Creating Commons: The Tasks ahead in Unlocking IP, Australian Graduate School of Management UNSW Sydney Australia, 10 July 2006. UNSW / austLii (2006) 1-17

Expert commentary:
'Piracy, Consumers and The Digital Age', Radio interview on Australia Talks Back, ABC Radio National 15 November 2006

2005

‘TCN Channel Nine v Network Ten (No 2)’ (2005) 10(3) Media & Arts Law Review 249-256

2004

‘Copyright in Television Broadcasts: Network Ten v TCN Channel Nine- “A case which can excite emotions”’ (2004) 9(4) Media & Arts Law Review 277-294

2003

‘Seriously Entertaining: The Panel and the future of fair dealing’ (2003) 8.1 Media & Arts Law Review 1-17

2000

‘The Experience of Online Learning: Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Innovation in Web-based Legal Education’ (2000) in R. Sims, M. O’Reilly and S. Sawkins (ed.) Learning to Choose: Choosing to Learn: Proceedings of the 17th Annual ASCILITE Conference, Southern Cross University Press, 425-434. (with Robyn Benson, CeLTS, Monash University)

1999

“Some Legal Aspects of the Internet: An Australian Perspective” (1999) 1 Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 103- 116

1998

'The Future of the Internet: Content Regulation and its Potential Impact on the Shape of Cyberspace' (1998) 9.2 Entertainment Law Review 86-94 (UK)

‘The Music on Hold Case’ (1998) 5 Journal of Intellectual Property 397-415 (US)

‘Information Wants to be Free: How Cyberspace Challenges traditional legal concepts of information use and ownership’ (1998) 26 Archives & Manuscripts 368-389

‘Electronic Commerce: Promises, Problems and Proposals’ (1998) 21(3) The University of New South Wales Law Journal 1-19

1997

'Controlling Content on the Information Superhighway- Liability of Internet Service Providers For Copyright Infringement' (1997) 5.1 Current Commercial Law 1-14

'Keeping Your Site Nice- Unfair Practices on the World Wide Web' (1997) 8.4 Australian Intellectual Property Journal 181-191

1996

'Copyright in Cyberspace' (1996) 21.6 Alternative Law Journal 266-270