Shared some more thoughts about the recipe copyright dispute between Nagi Maehashi and Brooke Bellamy in an interview in The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/05...

Presumably a relatively close knit grouping, maybe unlike influencers. Although i really dont know much about that community.

There is definitely the feel of gesturing towards copyright or 'plagiarism' to protect something else. I think there is some work about social norms around restaurants chefs use of other recipes but it slips my mind? I wonder, are there norms for celebrity or influencers?

Some thoughts on copyright and recipes in The Conversation today theconversation.com/recipetin-ea...

The inaugural Jill McKeough lecture delivered by Leanne Wiseman, "In everything and everywhere: New challenges for IP" - it's a privilege to be in the audience for such an important reflection on how IP expansion impedes sustainability and other public goals. "IP needs to do better". Indeed.

10 days to go until the deadline for proposal submission: it is an abstract & CV only, and no full draft is required at this point.

We look forward to receiving your proposals and hopefully see you in Madrid!

A/Prof Karen Pearlman and I presented a 'An interdisciplinary dialogue exploring discontinuities between authorship in copyright law and creative actualities'

Great first day of the Macquarie University Centre for Media History Conference - Media Past, Present and Future today!

Wonderful to be at Terri Janke's Francis Gurry Lecture 'Tracking Change: A pathway for a future Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Law' hosted by Melbourne Law School!

An interesting read... Can Universities reconnect with charitable purposes and diversify income streams?

The redundancies and course closures proposed at many struggling UK universities follow a decades-long drift away from the idea of higher education institutions as charities whose non-commercial public benefit needs to be supported by profit-making activity, argues Martin Mills

Depressing results for Australian researchers from our main funding scheme for Humanities and Creative Arts (incl. Law).
In 2021 total of 9 Law projects funded. 2023 it’s only 5 in the whole country.