Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Imminent ICIP Legislation: Protecting Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property in Media and the Arts
- What is Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP)
- Update on progress of drafting standalone ICIP legislation
- Relationship with existing legal mechanisms
- Issues to be aware of/embedding best practice amongst entertainment industry professionals
Presented by Dr Louise Buckingham, CEO, Arts Law
Chair
Kevin Lynch, Partner, Johnson Winter Slattery
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Presenters
Dr Louise Buckingham, CEO, Arts Law
Dr Louise Buckingham is the CEO of the Arts Law Centre of Australia. As a lawyer and lecturer she has specialised in intellectual property, cultural heritage and human rights and has worked in commercial and in-house roles across the corporate, education and not-for-profit sectors in Sydney, London and California (beginning at Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Sydney, and most recently in the award-winning Tech + IP and Innovation teams at Gilbert + Tobin with several years as the Senior Lawyer at the Australian Copyright Council and an editor of the Copyright Reporter along the way). She holds a BA(Hons First Class Ancient History)/LLB(Hons) and an LLM from the University of Sydney, an MSc (Comparative Politics) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD from the University of New South Wales (her thesis, broadly concerned with the subject matter of today's discussion won a Law Faculty Award for Excellence and her studies were supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award).
Kevin Lynch, Partner, Johnson Winter Slattery
Kevin has over twenty years’ experience in advising media and technology companies in relation to defamation, contempt, privacy, legislative restrictions, broadcast regulation, copyright, contractual matters and trade practices. With the JWS team Kevin provides dedicated defamation and pre-publication advice to prominent online, radio and television clients, including multinational media distributors and publishers. The 2020 edition of the Asia Pacific Legal 500 lists Kevin listed as a leading individual in media and entertainment where he is described as “a valued adviser, bringing exceptional experience, grounded assessment of claims and commercially-based advice across a range of specialised areas”. Chambers and Partners ranks Kevin as a notable practitioner – “an experienced and extremely capable lawyer who takes a very commercial approach to his matters”.
