News Corp Australia
In-Person Event |
at REA Group Offices
Level 17, 309 Kent Street,
Sydney NSW 2000
Overview (Program Summary)
A program hosted by:
ACC Australia
Doors open and light lunch is served from 12:20pm.
The legal and operational risks around copyright are becoming more complex as enterprise systems evolve and AI enters the workplace. For in-house teams, ensuring compliance while enabling innovation and efficiency is a constant balancing act.
In this session, Marlia Saunders, Partner at Thomson Geer and Gina McWilliams, Senior Legal Counsel at News Corp Australia, will explore how copyright issues arise in staff workflows and organisational systems, highlight the additional challenges AI creates, and provide practical guidance for in-house counsel navigating this shifting landscape.
Speakers
Marlia Saunders, Partner, Media Thomson Geer
Marlia is an experienced media/entertainment, intellectual property and privacy lawyer who has extensive top-tier law firm expertise and a unique client perspective after working as a senior in-house lawyer for many years.
She has been a partner at Thomson Geer for four years, was the Senior Litigation Counsel at News Corp Australia for four years, and previously worked at a top-tier international firm for 13 years. She regularly acts for and advises most of Australia’s major media organisations, social media and streaming platforms, large corporates and government bodies.
Marlia specialises in defamation, copyright, contempt of court, suppression orders, freedom of information and court access applications, confidential information claims, prepublication advice, consumer law and privacy matters. She has acted in a large number of high profile media and intellectual property disputes; advised on sponsorship, production and licensing deals; and given pre-publication advice in relation to newspaper and online articles, television programs, podcasts, films, books and marketing/advertising materials.
Highly respected in the industry, Marlia is ranked by international legal directory Chambers and Partners Band 2 for Media Law.
Gina McWilliams, Senior Legal Counsel, News Corp Australia
Gina started her legal career at Edwards Wallace (now defunct) in Perth before moving to Sydney in 2005. Apart from a short stint at Ashurst Australia, she has worked in-house at News Corp Australia ever since and likes to quip that they will one day cart her out of Holt Street in a pine box. Gina has worked on defamation matters large and small including Kostov v Nationwide News Pty Ltd; suppression and access matters including Hogan v Australian Crime Commission; press freedom matters including Smethurst v the Australian Federal Police and, in between, advises her print and online clients on all matters media related. She is a pilates fiend in her down-time and was delighted to be part of the team awarded the 2021 June Andrews Walkley Award for Women’s Leadership in Media for their work on the #LetHerSpeak/#LetThemSpeak campaign.
Notes
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