Rebecca Giblin

A Future of International Copyright? Berne and the Front Door Out

Rebecca Giblin

Book Chapter  |  2020

Modernizing Copyright and Saving the Planet? Speculations on WIPO's Future Role

Rebecca Giblin, Kimberlee Weatherall, Jane C Ginsburg, Jukka Liedes

Book Chapter  |  2020

WIPO’s mission is ‘to lead the development of a balanced and effective international IP system that enables innovation and creativ..

Available, but not Accessible? Investigating Publishers' e-Lending Licensing Practices

Rebecca Giblin, Jenny Kennedy, Kimberlee Weatherall, Daniel Gilbert, Julian Thomas, Francois Petitjean

Journal article  |  2019  |  Information Research: an international electronic journal

We report our mixed-methods investigation of publishers’ licensing practices, which affect the books public libraries can offer fo..

Why were Commonwealth Reversionary Rights Abolished (and What Can We Learn Where They Remain)?

Rebecca Giblin, Joshua Yuvaraj

Journal article  |  2019  |  European Intellectual Property Review

What Happens When Books Enter the Public Domain? Testing Copyrights Underuse Hypothesis Across Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada

Jacob Flynn, Rebecca Giblin, Francois Petitjean

Journal article  |  2019  |  University of New South Wales Law Journal

A key justification for copyright term extension has been that exclusive rights encourage publishers to make older works available..

What Can 100,000 Books Tell Us About the International Public Library e-Lending Landscape?

Rebecca Giblin, Jenny Kennedy, Charlotte Pelletier, Julian Thomas, Kimberlee Weatherall, Francois Petitjean

Journal article  |  2019  |  Information Research: an international electronic journal

We investigated the relative availability of e-books to libraries for e-lending in five English-language countries & analysed thei..

Five Ways to Boost Australian Writers’ Earnings

Rebecca Giblin

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

Who makes the money in publishing? Nobody. This often repeated dark joke highlights a serious issue. The most recent figures show ..

Fat Horses & Starving Sparrow: On Bullshit in Copyright Debates

Rebecca Giblin

Journal article  |  2018  |  Overland

A great deal of this bullshit is motivated by good intentions – most notably, the desire to sustain writers’ incomes in an era of ..

Everything He Does, He Does It For Us. Why Bryan Adams is on to Something Important About Copyright

Rebecca Giblin

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2018

Adams appeared before a Canadian House of Commons committee to argue they should be entitled to reclaim ownership of their creatio..

A New Copyright Bargain? Reclaiming Lost Culture and Getting Authors Paid

Rebecca Giblin

Journal article  |  2018  |  Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts

Copyright’s fundamental structure is based on outdated assumptions, including that marginal costs of copying and distribution are ..