Copyright, Property and the Social Contract: The Reconceptualisation of Copyright

John Gilchrist is a Senior Research Fellow in Law at the Australian Catholic University. He holds postgraduate degrees and qualifications from four Australian Universities. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.

Dr Gilchrist has been involved with intellectual property as a policy and practicing lawyer and as an academic over a period of four decades. He was the Secretary of the Australian Copyright Law Committee on Reprographic Reproduction (the Franki Committee) and a member of the Australian Copyright Law Review Committee on its Crown Copyright reference. He has published numerous articles and a monograph on government copyright issues.

Brian Fitzgerald is Professor of Law at the Australian Catholic University and was the Foundation Dean of Law from 2012-2015. He holds postgraduate degrees in law from Oxford University and Harvard University and a current practising certificate as a Barrister.