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
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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 is a dispute resolution lawyer specialising in media law. He advises leading media and technology companies in relation to defamation, privacy, legislative restrictions, broadcast regulation, copyright, contractual matters and consumer issues. He also advises on general commercial litigation matters in various courts and tribunals. The 2026 edition of the Legal 500 lists Kevin as a leading individual in media and entertainment, where he is described as having “years of experience, commercial nous and a healthy dose of common sense”. Chambers & Partners 2026 ranks Kevin as a notable practitioner. Kevin has been profiled in Lawyer's Weekly as one of the "senior heavyweights in media law". He is on the Committee of the Communication and Media Lawyers Association and the Media Communications Committee of the Law Council of Australia. Kevin’s publications include articles in LexisNexis Internet Law Bulletin and Privacy Law Bulletin, and the Communications Law Bulletin. He presented a paper on 'Libel Tourism' at the New York State Bar Association Fall Conference and has acted as Chair of the Legalwise Annual Media Law Conference since 2020. Kevin is a regular commentator on legal issues in The AFR, The Australian, the ABC and Sky News. Kevin is recognised as a Leading lawyer in the area of Defamation & Reputation Management in the 2026 Doyle’s Guide rankings (Australia-wide).
