News Corp Australia
In-Person Event |
at Allens Offices
Level 26, 480 Queen Street,
Brisbane QLD 4000
Overview (Program Summary)
A program hosted by:
ACC Australia
Doors open and light lunch is served from 12:20pm.
Copyright law remains a pressing issue for organisations balancing the demands of content creation, technology, and compliance. In-house lawyers are increasingly asked to advise on how copyright intersects with day-to-day staff workflows, large-scale enterprise systems, and now the rise of AI tools.
In this session, Miriam Stiel, Partner at Allens and Grant McAvaney, Head of Litigation at News Corp Australia, will examine current and emerging copyright challenges, share practical insights, and discuss strategies for managing risk in a rapidly changing environment.
Speakers
Miriam Stiel, Partner and Intellectual Property Practice Group Leader, Allens
Miriam Stiel is a Partner of Allens and the head of the Intellectual Property group. Miriam has over 25 years’ experience as an intellectual property lawyer and works with Australian and multi-national corporations across media and entertainment, fashion, manufacturing, banking and finance, sport and technology to develop strategies for the protection, commercialisation and enforcement of their IP rights.
Miriam is the Deputy Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia, a member of the Enforcement Committee of the International Trademark Association and the AI & New Emerging Technologies and Women in IP committees of the Intellectual Property Owners Association. Miriam has been recognised as a leading IP lawyer by a range of directories including Chambers Asia-Pacific and Legal 500 and as one of the global Top 250 in IP by Managing IP.
Miriam is at the forefront of considering the IP challenges brought by the rapid adoption of AI into the workplace here.
Grant McAvaney, Head of Litigation, News Corp Australia
Grant McAvaney is a senior media and entertainment lawyer with extensive litigation and commercial law experience. Grant was a Partner at Minter Ellison in Adelaide where he performed significant work (both as a solicitor and counsel) for a variety of News Limited entities. He was later Senior Legal Counsel at Ninemsn before joining the ABC to head their litigation team for a number of years. He has also held the role of CEO at the Australian Copyright Council and has since 2021 been the head of litigation at News Corp Australia. He has worked on a variety of complex and high profile matters coming from all areas including publishing, print media, radio, television, news, comedy, and online. Grant’s wealth of varied legal experience includes pre-publication work, defamation, journalist source protection, suppression orders, intellectual property, privacy and legislative/policy reviews. He has also been active in the wider profession, including lecturing media law to University students and members of the Media & Entertainment Arts Alliance. He has on several occasions been awarded a Pro Bono Award by the Arts Law Centre of Australia.
Notes
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