Associate Professor Melissa deZwart

Bram's Pyre Blog

Governance and the Global Metaverse, paper presented at Cybercultures 4, Salzburg 13-15 March 2009

Copyright Society of Australia

ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) Virtual Group of Experts on Security Issues in Virtual Worlds and Gaming (EU)

Steering Committee, Cybercultures, Exploring Critical Issues Project (Interdisciplinary.Net) (UK)

Editorial Board, Journal of Law, Information and Science

BA (Hons)

LLB (Hons)

LLM (Melb)

Ph D (Monash)

Grad Cert Higher Ed (Monash)

• Intellectual property, copyright
• Internet law, cyberlaw
• virtual worlds and social networking

‘The Panel Case’ in Sam Ricketson, Megan Richardson and Andrew T Kenyon Landmarks in Australian Intellectual Property (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

‘Australia’s Fair Dealing Exceptions: Do They Facilitate or Inhibit Creativity in the Production of Television Comedy?’ in Andrew T Kenyon (ed) TV Futures: Digital Television Policy in Australia, Melbourne University Press, 2007, pp 166-195

‘Virtual Worlds: Copyright vs Contract- the new frontier?’ (2008) Copyright Reporter 79- 90

‘Regulating Internet and Convergent Mobile Content: The New Content Services Regime’ (2008) 58 Telecommunications Journal of Australia 32.1- 32.29 (with David Lindsay and Sharon Rodrick)

‘An Historical Analysis of the Birth of Fair Dealing and Fair Use: Lessons for the Digital Age’ (2007) 1 Intellectual Property Quarterly 60-91 (UK)

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Law

• copyright
• the Internet: regulation and governance
• virtual worlds
• social networking