Sydney Law School: Recent submissions
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At the intersection of public service and the market: Libraries and the future of lending
Published 2015Most library uses of books occur outside the purview of copyright and the market. Loans fall outside copyright's exclusive rights; libraries have exceptions for many activities that involve copying. Author remuneration for ...Open AccessArticle -
Negligence and health innovation: Issues with the standard of care and the need to revisit the voluntary assumption of risk
Published 2022This section examines current debates about the test for standards of care in negligence under the Civil Liability Acts in Australia, and how those debates may impact adversely on innovations in health care. It examines ...Open AccessArticle -
Law of gifts, conditional donation and biobanking
Published 2013Tissue banks are critical to research efforts into the causes and treatment of many diseases. Biobanks are created from donated tissue but property concepts have not played a major role in understanding methods of the ...Open AccessArticle -
Culture clash : the Australian Law Reform Commission's discussion of retransmission and the world of broadcast
Published 2014The interaction between copyright law and media policy is an area of considerable difficulty. This article analyses and contextualises the conclusions of the Australian Law Reform Commission regarding the retransmission ...Open AccessArticle -
The criminal responsibility of a "failed cadet soldier"
Published 2015On 10 November 1988, Julian Knight was sentenced for "one of the worst massacres in Australian history". Knight, then aged 19, had shot and killed seven people, and injured 19 others, in a shooting spree carried out on ...Open AccessArticle