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Delia Browne

Delia is the National Copyright Director ,Copyright Advisory Group of Australian Schools and Technical and Further Education Institutes(TAFEs).  Delia is an extremely experienced intellectual property lawyer. In her current role, Delia manages the National Copyright Unit which provides specialist copyright advice to  the education sector  and conducts negotiations with collecting societies on behalf of schools and TAFE institutes. Prior to her current role,  Delia worked at  law firm  Minter Ellison providing specialist copyright advice to the education and media/entertainment sectors .

Delia has considerable experience in law reform and  advocacy.  In her role as the Executive Director of the Arts Law Centre of Australia (1996 – 2002), she was instrumental in achieving significant legislative reforms such as the introduction of moral rights for creators in the Copyright Act and new tax rulings providing fairer tax treatment for arts professionals.   In 2005- 2007, Delia led the education sector in its  advocacy efforts for copyright law review. This resulted in the introduction of new educational exceptions into Australia's Copyright Act including the new flexible dealing exception.

Delia is a strong advocate of the open education movement and has actively participated in several international meetings and projects on promoting open resources, technology and teaching practices in education. Delia  works  closely with Creative Commons Australia  and CC learn  in promoting open education in Australia.

Andrew Rens

Andrew Rens thinks and writes about the interaction of law, knowledge and innovation, and blogs his thoughts at www.aliquidnovi.org. Currently based in Cape Town where he is completing a three year fellowship as the Intellectual Property Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation, Andrew has worked in academe, private practise and the non profit sector. He was the founding Legal Lead of Creative Commons South Africa, a co-founder and former director of The African Commons Project, a charter member and director of Freedom to Innovate South Africa ,a fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society , and a research associate at the LINK Center at the School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Andrew qualified as an attorney in South Africa, and was awarded a Master of Laws from the Law School at the University of the Witwatersrand where he where he subsequently taught Master's courses in Intellectual Property, Telecommunications, Broadcasting, Space and Satellite, and Media and Information Technology Law, before spending several years in San Francisco, California. He works closely with Intellectual Property Law Research at the University of Cape Town, and will be teaching a Master's course in Electronic Intellectual Property Law at the UCT Law School during the second term of 2009 (July to November).

Lila Bailey 

Lila Bailey is counsel for ccLearn, the education program at Creative Commons and is based in San Francisco, California.  Before coming to ccLearn, Lila was an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she practiced Internet-related litigation and counseling, focusing on novel copyright and privacy issues. Lila also worked for the Seattle-based law firm Perkins Coie, where she devoted significant energy to her pro bono work for the Internet Archive. Lila was also an Intellectual Property Fellow with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 2007. She earned her law degree at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and holds a degree in philosophy from Brown University.