Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Chair
Janine Lapworth, Legal Consultant
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
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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 is a leading media, information technology, intellectual property and privacy partner with a particular focus on advice and disputes. She has extensive experience in advising and acting for companies and agencies in relation to matters including defamation, intellectual property, privacy and law reform advice and disputes. She has also successfully acted for telecommunications and information technologies including many of the world’s leading suppliers, in strategic disputes including in negotiations, mediations, expert determinations and domestic and international arbitrations as well as litigation. Sophie is ranked as a leading media lawyer in Chambers & Partners, leading privacy lawyer in Legal 500, leading lawyer in Best Lawyers in each of her key areas of practice and a recommended privacy and data protection lawyer in the Lexology Index. Sophie has also been recognised as a Preeminent Technology, Media & Telecommunications lawyer (NSW) in the 2026 Doyle’s Guide rankings. Sophie is co-author of Thomson Reuters' Media & Internet Law & Practice and is the current author of the Internet title in Laws of Australia. She is a past president of the Communications and Media Law Association and is a current member of the UTS Centre for Media Transition Advisory Board.
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.
