Day 1 – 18 January 2010 - Cybercrime

16:00 Registration

Scott Corish will examine data and communications offences under the Cybercrime Act 2001 which is part 10.7 of the Criminal Code Act 1995.  He will also examine online grooming legislative offences and cases and online stalking offences.  He will consider storing, access and transmission crimes in relation to child and other restricted content pornography.  Scott will review his role in cases relating to the growing area of identity fraud.

Richard Cobden SC will examine criminal provisions and enforcement under Australian intellectual property legislation in relation to the Internet. The session will cover new criminal provisions under the 2006 amendments to the Copyright Act and enforcements through the courts such as the case against three NSW University students. He will discuss digital forensics issues and the work of experts such as Michael A. Caloyannides, author of Desktop Witness.

Day 2 – 19 January 2010 Cybercrime (Contd)

Day 3 - 20 January 2010 - The Internet and Business method Patents

Richard Cobden SC will examine legislation and cases in relation to the business method patents concerning software and Internet business methods.

Mathew Sulman will provide an overview of online resources available when applying for an Australian innovation patent in relation to software or business methods. He will examine the benefits and disadvantages of innovation and standard patents for software and internet business methods and discuss recent case law in the field.

Day 4 – 21 January 2010 - Creative Commons

Graham Bassett will examine the development of the Australian Creative Commons from the Open Source software movement.  Approaches to the development of a public domain in cyberspace will be overviewed.  Participants shall examine Australian licensing models in the public domain under the Creative Commons.

Course dinner for participants after the last session.

You can download the full course program here.