Faculty of Business and Law

School of Law

Dilan Thampapillai

Lecturer

BA, LLB ANU, M.Com USYD, LLM Cornell, PhD Candidate Melbourne Solicitor admitted to practise, Australian Capital Territory

Campus: Melbourne Burwood Campus
Phone: +61 3 924 46208
Email: dilan.thampapillai@deakin.edu.au

  • "Can the US actually protect performers against bootlegging? Fixation and the Copyright Clause in the Martignon controversy,” (2010) 15 Media Arts Law Review 1
  • "Creating an Innovation Exception? Copyright Law as the Infrastructure for Innovation,” (2010) 7(1) Script-Ed 104
  • “Controversial Speech on Blogs,” Book Chapter in Legal Issues for Internet Blogs, Mr Peter Black (editor). [Forthcoming 2010]
  • “Abandoning Eden: The Google Print Library Project,” Book chapter in Knowledge Project 21st Century, Brian Fitzgerald and Mark Perry (eds) University of Toronto Press, [Forthcoming, 2010]
  • “Print Disability and Copyright” (2008) 13(1) Media Arts Law Review, with Nic Suzor and Paul Harpur
  • Book Review, “William van Caenegem, Intellectual Property Law and Innovation (Cambridge University Press, 2007)” (2008) QUT Law and Justice Journal
  • “Unlocking the Library: Copyright Access and the Disabled,”(2008) 11(3) Internet Law Bulletin 14 with Paul Harpur.
  • “Creating A Legal Framework For Copyright Management Of Open Access Within The Australian Academic And Research Sector,” Book Chapter in Legal Framework For E-Research, University of Sydney Press, 2008, with Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Professor Mark Perry and others.
  • “Crown Copyright: The Nature of the Crown and the Prerogative,”(2007) 14 Murdoch E-Law Journal
  • “Peer to Peer Copyright Infringement: The Grokster Cases From the 9th Circuit to the Supreme Court,” (2006) Copyright Reporter
  • “Copyright and the Protection of Databases,” Chapter in OAKLAW Report No.1: Creating A Legal Framework For Copyright Management Of Open Access Within The Australian Academic And Research Sector, Queensland University of Technology, 2006, Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Dr Anne Fitzgerald, Professor Mark Perry, Scott Kiel-Chisolm, Erin Driscoll, Dilan Thampapillai and Jessica Coates

Teaching Interests

  • Commercial Law
  • Intellectual Property
  • Contract Law
  • Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Competition

Research Interests

  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Free Speech
  • Hate Speech

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30th January 2012