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Policy Issues

Internet and Innovation

Digital Sampling and Culture Jamming in a Remix World: What does the law allow?

PROFESSOR JOHN QUIGGIN, PROFESSOR BRIAN FITZGERALD AND DAMIEN O’BRIEN

The following two papers reflect the significant challenges that face intellectual property in the digital world.

Internet and Innovation
In this paper Professor John Quiggin of the University of Queensland discusses the impact the internet has had on innovation in modern society, and in particular networked innovation and the rise of social capital.

Digital Sampling and Culture Jamming in a Remix World: What does the law allow?
Professor Brian Fitzgerald and Damien O’Brien examine the extent to which the law restricts the use of the cultural environment as part of modern discursive practices.

Professor Brian Fitzgerald

(Head, QUT Law School)