Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Chair
Janine Lapworth, Legal Consultant
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
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Part 2: Overview of Global Approaches to AI Regulation and Australia's Legislative Plans
- Global approaches to AI regulation
- Australia's National AI Plan and future direction
Presented by Professor Mimi Zou, Head of School of Private and Commercial Law, Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW Sydney
Part 1: Updates following the Productivity Commission’s Reports around Generative AI Outputs
- Application of the reproduction right to AI training and look up
- Fair dealing defences and AI
- Recent US and EU case law
- Copyright Act Technological Protection Circumvention provisions: potential application
- Government decision not to have a text and data mining exception
- Productivity commission report (Due December 2025)
Presented by Sophie Dawson, Partner, Johnson Winter Slattery; co-author, Media & Internet Law & Practice
Presenters
Janine Lapworth, Legal ConsultantJanine Lapworth is a Senior Consultant with extensive experience in corporate, commercial, intellectual property, and entertainment law. She has worked at national and international law firms, as well as in senior in-house legal positions at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and ESPN Star Sports. Janine advises a diverse range of clients, including international studios, industry groups, tech start-ups, and creative businesses, focusing on areas such as television production, distribution, publishing, and general IP contracting.
Sophie Dawson, Partner, Johnson Winter Slattery
Sophie has been a leading defamation and privacy for more than 20 years, advising mainly mainstream media defendants and internet businesses. She has acted in many high profile matters, including acting for the interveners in the High Court in the landmark Gutnick v Dow Jones defamation matter. Sophie is experienced in providing prepublication advice and in handling disputes in an effective and cost efficient way. She is listed as a “pre-eminent’ TMT lawyer in Doyles 2025, and as a leading Media and Entertainment lawyer in the Chambers Asia Pacific directory.
Professor Mimi Zou, Head of School of Private and Commercial Law, Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW Sydney
Her research focuses on private & commercial law issues arising from AI and blockchain and the regulation of these new technologies. Prior to joining UNSW, she held senior positions at top universities worldwide, including the Chair in Commercial Law at the University of Exeter, UK and the first-ever Fellowship in Chinese Law at the University of Oxford. She also founded and led Oxford’s first lawtech research and innovation lab. She received the Global Australian Award for Technology in 2024.
