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Christoph Antons holds degrees of Referendar jur (Rhineland Palatinate), Assessor jur. (Bavaria), and PhD (Amsterdam). He is Professor of Comparative Law and Director of the Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific (CLDSAP) at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is a QEII Fellow of the Australian Research Council (ARC), Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCi), Adjunct Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich and Senior Fellow (Graduate Program) in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne. His book publications are “Intellectual Property Law in Indonesia” (Kluwer 2000), “Law and Development in East and Southeast Asia” (RoutledgeCurzon 2003), “Intellectual Property Harmonisation Within ASEAN and APEC” (Kluwer 2004, co-edited with Michael Blakeney and Christopher Heath), and “Globalisation and Resistance: Law Reform in Asia since the Crisis” (Hart 2007, co-edited with Volkmar Gessner).
Peter Coroneos is Chief Executive of the Internet Industry Association, the national industry body for the Internet in Australia. In addition to his role as primary industry advocate, political strategist and spokesperson for the IIA, Peter drives the IIA’s policy development work and has instigated the formation of specialist taskforces to leverage member expertise in diverse legal, economic and technical areas. Peter acts as industry representative on a number of high level bodies and regularly appears before House of Representatives and Senate inquiries to advise on the development of facilitative and workable rules for the internet and new media. A specialist in internet governance and joint industry-government co-operation, Peter has addressed audiences in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Professor Brian Fitzgerald holds postgraduate law degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He is a professor of intellectual property law and innovation at the Faculty of Law of the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Brian has published numerous articles and books on these topics in Australia, the United States, Europe and Japan. Professor Fitzgerald has delivered seminars throughout Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, Nepal, India, China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Norway and the Netherlands. His most recent book is Internet and e-Commerce Law: Technology, Law and Policy (published by Thomson Australia).
Professor Fuping Gao is one of the leading academics in China on real property, E-Commerce and intellectual property law. He is the Dean of the Intellectual Property School at the East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) and the Director of the Institute of E-Commerce Law. Professor Gao was also a Fulbright Scholar, serving as a Visiting Scholar with the Institute for International Law and Public Policy at Temple University, Beasley School of Law. Professor Gao is also a member of the E-Commerce Expert Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of PRC and a Legislation Consultant for the Shanghai Informatisation Office.
Steven Gething holds a Master of Laws majoring in Commercial law from Queensland University of Technology, a Graduate Diploma in Law from Leeds Metropolitan University and a Bachelor of Art in Visual Culture from Falmouth College of Art. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Queensland University of Technology researching criminal copyright law.
John Howkins is an internationally renowned expert on the creative economy. He is the author of several books, including “Understanding Television”, “Communications in China”, “New Technologies, New Policies”, “Four Global Scenarios on Information”, and “Creative Economy”. He has worked for the Governments of Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Singapore, UK, USA and 15 other countries.
CJ Zhipei Jiang, the Chief Justice of the Third Chamber – formerly the Intellectual Property Right Chambe - of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China, occupies the highest position on the Supreme Court bench dealing with lawsuits concerning intellectual property. A famous legal scholar in the areas of Internet Law and socially domain names in China, Justice Jiang has extensive judicial experience and also serves as the Commissioner of the Trial Committee of the Court. In addition, Judge Jiang is the Routine director of the council of China Intellectual Property Right Research Association, and the China Science and Technology Law Academy. He is also the Director of the China Judge Academy, and participated in writing and editing The Intellectual Property Right Lawsuit; General Discussions of Law; and Network and Electronic Business Law among others. In 2005, the Managing Intellectual Property magazine (UK) reported in its July/August issue that CJ Jiang, with Chinese vice-premier Wu Yi, was among the top 50 most influential people in the intellectual property world.
Susanna is an Associate Professor at the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore and is an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. Susanna received her LLB (Hons) from National University of Singapore and her LLM (with Merit) from University College London, University of London. She teaches business related law courses such as contract, sale of goods and intellectual property to undergraduate and graduate business students. Her research interests are in intellectual property and technology-related laws. She has published in Journal of Business Law, International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law (IIC), European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR), International Journal of Law and Information, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) and several other international and local academic journals. Susanna is the Vice-Dean, Graduate Studies Office, NUS Business School and the Academic Director of the NUS-PKU International MBA program. She is a Senior Fellow at the Intellectual Property Academy of Singapore. She is a member of The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Centre’s Domain Name Panel and a member of The Regional Centre for Arbitration, Kuala Lumpur (RCAKL) Panel.
Cheng Lim is an Assistant Professor of Law at Singapore Management University where he teaches Business Law and Intellectual Property Rights. He is a Solicitor and Advocate and has practiced in the intellectual property department of Messrs Shook Lin & Bok, Singapore. In 2003 he was appointed a Fellow of the Intellectual Property Academy of Singapore. Cheng Lim’s research interests lie mainly in the law of intellectual property and he has since published several articles in the following international journals: “European Intellectual Property Review”; “Cambridge Law Journal”; “International Journal of Law and Information Technology”; “Journal of Business Law”; “Hong Kong Law Journal” and “Singapore Journal of Legal Studies”.
Damien holds a Bachelor of Laws from the Queensland University of Technology, a Graduate Certificate in International Studies (International Relations) from the University of Queensland, a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Queensland University of Technology and is admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland. He is currently completing a Masters of Laws (Intellectual Property and Technology Law) at the National University of Singapore. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on topics such as blogs and the law, search engine liability for copyright infringement, digital music law and digital copyright law.
Jane Ogge-Cowan is the Deputy Consul General at the Australian Consulate in Shanghai. Prior to taking up her posting in Shanghai, she worked in the Office of Trade Negotiations in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, specialising in Agriculture Trade Negotiations in the WTO. As well as developing Australian negotiating positions, she managed the Secretariat for the Cairns Group coalition of agricultural exporters, which is chaired by Australia. Jane has had previous posting in Sri Lanka and Mauritius. She has a Masters degree in Foreign Affairs and Trade and undergraduate degrees in Law and Japanese.
Eric Priest is CEO of Fei Liu Holdings, a company that began as a joint research project between Harvard and Tsinghua Universities to help solve the problem of online copyright infringement. Eric is a veteran of the global entertainment business and an intellectual property lawyer with broad China experience. He holds a Masters in Law from Harvard University and a JD from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he was Editor-In-Chief of the Chicago-Kent Law Review, and subsequently practiced as an intellectual property associate at Dorsey & Whitney LLP Most recently, Eric was a Resident Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, where he took the lead in developing Fei Liu, a copyright compliant online distribution service for China market. His 2006 article, The Future of Music and Film Piracy in China, was published in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.
Daniel Seng is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore. He had been a partner and head of the Technology Practice Group at Rajah & Tann, a leading Singapore law firm, and Director of Research with the Singapore Academy of Law. He was appointed amicus curiae to the Court of Appeal of Singapore in the case of Chwee Kin Keong & Ors v Digilandmall.com Pte Ltd. He is currently a member of the Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society (AIMS), a high level committee set up by the Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts, and a Law Reform Consultant with the Attorney-General’s Chambers of Singapore. His publications and contributions include “Butterworths Annotated Statutes of Singapore: Evidence Act” (Butterworths 1997), “The Impact of the Regulatory Framework on E-Commerce in Singapore” (Singapore Academy of Law 2002, editor), “Computer Output as Evidence: Consultation Paper” (Singapore Academy of Law 2003, co-authored with Sriram Chakravarthi), and “Electronic Evidence: Electronic Evidence in Singapore” (Butterworths 2007, edited by Stephen Mason, co-authored with Bryan Tan).
Wentao Sha holds a LLM from ECUPL and is currently a PhD candidate at ECUPL majoring economic law. Sha is often interviewed by the mainstream media such as 21st Century Business Herald and No 1 Finance Daily. He has also been a Guest Columnist of Xinmin Weekly since 2006. In addition, Sha is a part-time PRC lawyer serving international and local enterprises. For instance, he advised a leading online retail corporation based in South Korea to duly conduct its business in PRC, i.e., provided legal opinions for its market entry (ICP license), investment structure and cash flow arrangement.
Sampsung Xiaoxiang Shi is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology. He is also a research assistant to Professor Brian Fitzgerald at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI). In July 2007, Sampsung was accepted into the annual Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP) run by the Oxford Internet Institute in partnership with The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. His PhD research topic focuses on copyright and innovation in the networked information economy in Australia and China. His research interests cover the law of copyright, media, entertainment, and especially the social and legal implications of the Internet and ICT. Sampsung received degrees of Bachelor in Law (2001) and Master in Civil and Commercial Law (2006) from ECUPL. From 2003 to 2006, he was a research assistant to Professor Fuping Gao, Dean of Intellectual Property school of ECUPL, and co-authored several research reports for the Shanghai Government.
Professor Qian Wang holds a PhD from Peking University and LLM from the University of Toronto and specialises in intellectual property and high technology law. He has been teaching IP law at ECUPL since 2003. He has published three books and more than 50 papers. He is engaged as the IP consultant for 2010 Shanghai Expo and as an expert in National IP Strategy Research Project.
Chunyan Wang is Associate Professor of Law at Renmin University of China. She is also the Project Lead for Creative Commons China Mainland. She began her undergraduate studies at Zhejiang University Law School and graduated from Peking University. She received her PhD. in Law from Renmin University of China. She was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School in 1996 and in 2003, specialising in intellectual property issues. Her area of specialty is intellectual property and copyright law. Chunyan is responsible for localising and promoting the China Mainland version of the Creative Commons licences. She has also delivered presentations at various international conferences on topics such as copyright law, creative commons, new media, open licensing, and open education.
Chao Xu is the Director of the Copyright Administration Department, National Administration of Copyright of the People’s Republic of China, which is responsible for the registration and administration of copyright, and enforcement of copyright laws in China. He has worked at the National Copyright Administration of China since 1983 and has twice held a copyright fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for International and Foreign Patent, Copyright and Competition Rights in Munich. He also participated in the draft formulation and modification of the Chinese Copyright Law, the Implementing Regulations of the Copyright Law and the Regulation to Protect Computer Software. He is a part-time Assistant Professor of the Law Institute of the People’s University of China, part-time Professor of the Civil and Commercial Law College of Polity and Law University of China, a Professor of Tianjing Intellectual Property Advanced Training Institute and an IP Consultant of Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Fujian province justice systems.
Difei Yu holds a LLM from ECUPL. As a member of the Policy and Law Committee of China E-commerce Association and E-commerce Law Institute of ECUPL, Yu has participated in several legislation drafting projects of relevant authorities and organized a handful of workshops or forums in the area of e-commerce (eg regulation of electronic contract, online transaction and online payment). She has published over 10 articles on e-commerce, including “Uniform Suggestions to the Equivalence of Electronic Records and Paper Evidence” (co-authored with Professor Fuping Gao, Science of Law, Vol. 11, 2004) and “Strategies for Buyers in On-line Transactions” (Journal of Electronic World, Vol 8, 2004). Yu is currently serving international clients in the sector of foreign direct investment for e-commerce and the telecom industry.
Xiaoli Zhi has worked as an Associate Professor with the School of Computer Engineering and Science of Shanghai University since 2003. She holds an MS degree in computer science from Zhejiang University (2000) and a PhD degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2003). Her main research interests focus on digital exploitation of information resources and the content industry, embedded systems, and software. Over the past five years, she has published over 27 technical papers related to computer-centered system or network computing, among them 10 papers were indexed by EI and 7 by SCI. She has conducted more than 5 foundation projects as PI or CO-PI and more than 10 cooperation programs with the industrial sector as PI or active participant.
Yee Fen Lim is a Principal consultant at Galexia and assists with Galexia’s regional projects. Yee Fen is based in Singapore where she is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. Yee Fen is uniquely qualified as she holds degrees in computer science and law with Honours from the University of Sydney. She was previously a tenured Associate Professor of Law at a university in Sydney and she has over ten years experience as a senior academic specialising in E-commerce law, Internet Law and Intellectual Property Law. Yee Fen also has considerable experience as an IT professional having being a consultant on key Internet and database projects in the 1990s. She is author of one of Australia’s leading texts on Internet Law – Cyberspace Law: Commentaries and Materials (Oxford University Press). The second edition of this seminal work was published in early 2007, with a Foreword by the Honourable Justice Gummow AC QC of the High Court of Australia. She is also co-author of E-Commerce and the Internet: Technology, Law and Policy (Thomson Legal & Regulatory) published in 2007.
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