Delia Browne
National Copyright Director of the Copyright Advisory Group
Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs
Delia Browne is an extremely experienced intellectual property lawyer. Prior to her role as the National Copyright Director of the Copyright Advisory Group, Delia worked at Minter Ellison providing specialist copyright advice to the education sector. Delia has considerable experience in law reform and lobbying. In her role as the Executive Director of the Arts Law Centre of Australia (1996 - 2002), she led the arts sector advocacy in respect of the introduction of moral rights legislative reforms and new taxation rulings for artists. In her current role as the National Copyright Director, Delia manages the National Copyright Unit of Copyright Advisory Group which provides specialist copyright advice to schools and the TAFE sector, implements smart copying initiatives and conducts negotiations with collecting societies on behalf of schools and TAFE institutes. In 2005 and 2006, Delia led the education sector in its lobbying efforts for copyright law review. This resulted in the introduction of new legislative exceptions with significant benefits to the education sector.
Delia is a strong advocate of the open education movement and has actively participated in several international meetings on promoting open resources, technology and teaching practices in education. She is one of the co drafters of the Cape Town Declaration on Open Education Resources. Delia continues to work closely with Creative Commons Australia in promoting open education in Australia.
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