Nic Suzor's personal blog

Copyright in some of these publications is not solely owned by Nic Suzor. Accordingly, publications are not available under a Creative Commons licence unless explicity stated.

PhD Thesis (June, 2010)

• Digital constitutionalism and the role of the rule of law in the governance of virtual communities (PDF) (available under a CC BY-SA 3.0 (AU) licence).

Refereed articles

• Nicolas Suzor, The Role of the Rule of Law in Virtual Communities (forthcoming BTLJ 2011) (PDF).
• Nicolas Suzor, "On the (partially-)inalienable rights of participants in virtual communities" (2009) 130 Media International Australia (Post-print only, available under CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 (AU)).
• Nicolas Suzor, Brian Fitzgerald, Mark Perry, 'Free Software as a Democratic Principle' in Mark Perry (ed) Knowledge and Policy for the 21st Century (forthcoming 2008).
• Nicolas Suzor, 'The future of amateur reality broadcasting' in Marett Leiboff (ed), Manipulative Reality TV and the law (forthcoming 2008).
• Nicolas Suzor, 'Where the bloody hell does parody fit in Australian copyright law?' (2008) 13 MALR 218 (available under CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 (AU), attribution to Nicolas Suzor, published by MALR and LexisNexis).
• Nicolas Suzor, Paul Harpur and Dilan Thampapillai, 'Digital copyright and disability discrimination: From braille books to bookshare' (2008) 13(1) MALR 1 (available under CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 (AU), attribution to Nicolas Suzor, published by MALR and LexisNexis).
• Brian Fitzgerald and Nic Suzor, Legal Issues for the Use of Free Software in Government (2005) 29(2) Melbourne University Law Review 412 (alternative version available at AUSTLII).
• Sal Humphreys, Brian Fitzgerald, John Banks, and Nic Suzor, “Fan-based production for computer games: User-led innovation, the 'drift of value' and intellectual property rights” (2005) 114 Media International Australia 16.
• Nic Suzor, Privacy v IP Litigation: preliminary third party discovery on the Internet (2004) 25(3) Australian Bar Review 227.

Other articles

• Brian Fitzgerald and Nic Suzor, The Australian Sony PlayStation Case and the Implementation of the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) (2006) Forthcoming.
• Creative Commons, NAVA Quarterly (2006) (available under a CC BY-SA 2.5 (AU) licence).
• Remix, Reuse, Recycle, Filter (2005) (available under a CC BY-SA 2.5 (AU) licence).

LLM Thesis

• Transformative Use of Copyright Material (available under a CC BY-SA 2.5 (AU) licence).

Book sections

• Brian Fitzgerald and Nic Suzor, “The Role of Open Content Licences in Building Open Communities: Creative Commons, GFDL and Other Licences” in C Kapitzke (ed) Rethinking Intellectual Property (2007) Sense Publishing
• Nic Suzor and Graham Bassett, “Recent Developments” in Brian Fitzgerald and Graham Bassett (eds) Legal Issues Relating to Free and Open Source Software (2004).

Presentations

All presentations, unless specifically noted, are available under a CC BY-SA 2.5 (AU) licence.

• Gods, Dictators, and Democracies: Roles and rights of Communities, Games Convention Online (GCO) Conference, Leipzig (01 August 2009): PPT PDF ODP.
• The role of the rule of law in virtual communities, State of Play VI, New York (20 June 2009): PDF or PPT.
• Reverse Engineering, Anti-Circumvention, and Other Broken Laws, Linux.conf.au 2009, Tasmania: PDF
• Governance in Virtual Environments, PhD Confirmation, QUT, 07 March 2007: OpenOffice ODP or PPT
• Nic Suzor, Virtual Liberties, Videogames, Virtual Environments and the Law, 15 February 2007 2MB PPT or 2MB ODP
• Governance in Virtual Environments, AoIR September 2006: OpenOffice ODP (some images missing); MS Office PPT; PDF.
• Nic Suzor, Governance in Virtual Environments, GikII workshop, Computer Law World Conference, Edinburgh 2006-09-04 (OpenOffice ODP format); (MS PPT;

Submissions

• EFA’s submission on legitimacy and transparency in Mandatory ISP Filtering (February 2010)
• EFA submission to AGD in response to the format shifting exceptions for photographs and films review.
• Brian Fitzgerald and Nic Suzor "Getting the Balance Right" – A Submission to House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs – Inquiry into technological protection measures (TPM) exceptions (2005) (available under a CC BY-SA 2.5 (AU) licence).