Jani McCutcheon

Jani is Director, Law and Society and is an elected Member of the UWA Academic Board, and a member of the Law School Teaching and Learning Committee. She is a co-director, Applied Intellectual Property Research Hub, and a Member of the Law School's Law and Society Research Hub.

Books/monograph:

Jani is currently writing a book, Literary Characters in Intellectual Property Law, to be published by Edward Elgar in 2019.  She is also editing, with her colleague Dr Fiona McGaughey, The Research Handbook on Art and Law (Edward Elgar, 2019).

Recent publications:

•  McCutcheon, JL, ‘Bioart and Copyright’, in E Bonadio and N Lucchi (eds) Unconventional Copyright (forthcoming, Edward Elgar, 2018)
•  McCutcheon, JL, ‘The Artistic Exemption in Hate Speech Regulation’, (forthcoming, 2018 Media and Arts Law Review)
•  McCutcheon, JL and Skead, N, ‘The Art of Crime: Proceeds of Crime Legislation and Visual Art’ (forthcoming, 2018 Media and Arts Law Review)
•  McCutcheon, JL, ‘Copyrighting Culture: Photography and the Public Domain’, Photography and Culture, (forthcoming 2018)

Conference presentations:

• Remedies Forum, Aix en Provence, France (June 2018): Copyright, Illegal Works and the Remedial Discretion of the Court
• Feeling Art: Disability Exceptions and their Application to 3D Printing, International experts Workshop, University of Maastricht, June 2018

Completion of Literary Characters in Intellectual Property Law (Edward Elgar,2019) and The Research Handbook on Art and Law (Edward Elgar, 2019).

Jani's other writing in progress includes:

- 'When Words Become Art: the Picturisation Right Under Copyright Law’
- ‘On The Nullians’
- ‘Works of Fiction: The Misconception of Literary Characters as Copyright Works’
- ‘Copyright, Illegal Works and the Court's Remedial Discretion' (Remedies Forum, France, June 2018)
- ‘Feeling Art: Australian Copyright Law’s Disability Exceptions and their Application to 3D Printing of 2D Art’ (Feeling Art International experts Workshop, University of Maastricht, June 2018)
- ‘Copyright and Illustrated Fiction in the 19th C’
- ‘Contextual Infringement of the Moral Right of Integrity’
- ‘The Moral of the Story: Literary Appropriation, the Authorial Message and Harm in Moral Rights’
- ‘Literary Appropriation, the Adaptation Right and Transformative Use’
- ‘Do Australian Authors Have a Sequel Right?’
- ‘Literary Characters and the Public Domain’

Future projects:

Feeling Art, Interrogating Intellectual Property Rights Exceptions for 3D Printing of 2D Art to Facilitate Access by the Visually Impaired

'Law in Art Symposium', September 2018, with Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies. Contemporary artists engaging with law as subject matter will discuss their work with a panel of interlocutors

The IP Awareness Project: How IP Savvy Are Australia's Creators and Innovators? Jani recently received a UWA Law School teaching-research Nexus grant to gain insight into the teaching of intellectual property law in Australian tertiary institutions.

Jani is also currently drafting a number of grant applications concerning disability exceptions and visual art.