Dr Kathy Bowrey FASSA is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, UNSW, Sydney. She is a legal historian and socio-legal researcher whose research explores laws and practices that inform knowledge creation and the production, distribution and reception of technology and culture. Her primary expertise relates to intellectual property, information technology regulation, regulatory theory, media practice, business history, feminist scholarship and a concern for Indigenous rights. She has a strong interest in higher education research policy and research management. She has acted as a Consultant to the Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD) concerning research assessment exercises in law. She was a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts (2018-2020).
Professor Bowrey is a foundation member of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property established in 2008 and and she became the Co-Director in 2019. This organisation sprang from international interest across law, humanities and the sciences to foster intellectual property research and better communication across national and disciplinary boundaries. She is a Visiting Scholar at the State Library of New South Wales (2021-22) and was a Research Fellow at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (2021), Australia.
Journal articles
Bowrey K; Chan J, 2023, 'The Machinery of Creation. Oulipo Poetry, Copyright & Rules of Constraint', Stockholm journal of intellectual property, vol. 5, pp. 36 - 57, https://stockholmiplawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Kathy-Bowrey_Janet-Bi-Li-Chan4_IP_nr-2_2022_A4.pdf
Bowrey K, 2022, 'Racist Ideology & Hashtag activism: The Collision of Art, Brand and Law in Peter Drew’s Aussie Folk Hero, Monga Khan', Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity, vol. 10, pp. 80 - 103, https://griffithlawjournal.org/index.php/gjlhd/article/view/1234
Bowrey K; Hadley M; Watson I, 2022, 'Decolonising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research', Australian Universities' Review, vol. 64, pp. 54 - 64
Bowrey K, 2021, 'Book Review: Macmillan, Fiona, Intellectual and Cultural Property: Between Market and Community', Modern Law Review, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12656
Bellido J; Bowrey K, 2018, 'Disney in Spain (1930–1935)', Business History, vol. 60, pp. 1275 - 1305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2017.1299129
Bowrey KA, 2016, 'Speaking of Us, About Us and For Us: The Teleology of the Copy and The Colonial Archive', Law&History, vol. 2016, pp. 132 - 161
Bowrey KA, 2016, 'Book review of Tiffany Jenkins, Keeping their Marbles. How the treasures of the past ended up in museums … and why they should stay there', Indigenous Law Bulletin, vol. 25, pp. 20 - 21
Bellido J; Bowrey K, 2014, 'From the Author to the Proprietor: Newspaper Copyright and The Times (1842–1956)', Journal of Media Law, vol. 6, pp. 206 - 233, http://dx.doi.org/10.5235/17577632.6.2.206
Bowrey KA, 2013, 'Audit Culture: Why Law Journals are Ranked and What Impact This Has on the Discipline of Law Today', Legal Education Review, vol. 23, pp. 291 - 312, http://www.ler.edu.au/
Bowrey KA, 2011, 'Law and its confinement: Reflections on Trevor Nickolls' 'brush with the lore'', Griffith Law Review, vol. 20, pp. 729 - 750, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=757816869000477;res=IELHSS
Bowrey KA, 2011, 'The New Intellectual Property: Celebrity, fans and the properties of the entertainment franchise', Griffith Law Review, vol. 20, pp. 188 - 210
Bowrey KA, 2010, 'Why global regulation of ICT needs to be taken more seriously', Transnational Legal Theory, vol. 1, pp. 459 - 474
Bowrey KA, 2010, 'Economic rights, culture claims and a culture of piracy in the Indigenous art market: what should we expect from the western legal system', Australian Indigenous Law Review, vol. 13, pp. 35 - 58
Bowrey KA, 2009, 'Book Review:The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It', Political Quarterly, vol. 80, pp. 153 - 156
Bowrey KA; Fowell NJ, 2009, 'Digging up fragments and building IP franchises', Sydney Law Review, vol. 31, pp. 185 - 210, http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/slr/
Bowrey KA; Bond CM, 2009, 'Copyright and the fourth estate: Does copyright support a sustainable and reliable public domain of news?', Intellectual Property Quarterly, pp. 399 - 427
Bowrey KA; Anderson JE, 2009, 'The politics of global information sharing: Whose cultural agendas are being advanced?', Social and Legal Studies, vol. 18, pp. 479 - 504, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0964663909345095
Bowrey KA, 2009, 'Book Review: The True History of Copyright: the Australian Experience 1905-2005 by Benedict Atkinson', Media and Arts Law Review, vol. 14, pp. 96 - 100
Bowrey KA, 2007, 'Can a Public-Minded Copyight Deliver a more Democratic Internet?', UNB Law Journal, vol. 56, pp. 26 - 35
Bowrey KA, 2007, 'Book Review: Internet politics: States, citizens, and new communication technologies', International History Review, vol. 29, pp. 935 - 937
Bowrey KA, 2007, 'Book Review: Andrew Chadwick, Internet Politics: State, Citizens and New Communicative Technologies', International History Review, vol. 29, pp. 935 - 937
Bowrey KA, 2006, 'Alternative intellectual property? Indigenous Protocols, Copyleft and new Juridifications of customary practices', Macquarie Law Journal, vol. 6, pp. 65 - 95
Bowrey KA, 2005, 'Who writes the communication rules that underpin internet legal practice?', Internet Law Bulletin, vol. 8, pp. 49 - 52
Bowrey K; Rimmer M, 2005, 'Rip, Mix, Burn: The politics of peer to peer and copyright law (originally published in August 2002)', First Monday, http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v0i0.1456
Bowrey K; Rimmer M, 2005, 'Rip, mix, burn: The politics of peer to peer and copyright law', First Monday, vol. 10
Bowrey K; Rimmer M, 2005, 'Rip, Mix, Burn: The politics of peer to peer and copyright law', First Monday, vol. 1
Bowrey K; Rimmer M, 2002, 'Rip, mix, burn: The politics of peer to peer and copyright law', First Monday, vol. 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v7i8.974
Bowrey KA, 2002, 'The Ideal Copyright Framework for Authors? A Bounty to Genius and Learning', Australian Academic and Research Libraries, vol. 32, pp. 223 - 233
Bowrey KA; Rimmer M, 2002, 'Rip, Mix, Burn: The Politics of Peer to Peer', First Monday: Peer Refereed Journal on the Internet, vol. 7
Bowrey K, 2002, 'The ideal framework for academic authors? a bounty to genius and learning', Australian Academic and Research Libraries, vol. 33, pp. 223 - 233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048623.2002.10755203
Bowrey KA, 2001, 'The Outer Limits of Copyright Law - where law meets philosophy and culture', Law and Critique, vol. 12, pp. 75 - 98
Bowrey KA, 2001, 'Retrospective Futures? Law, technology and copyright control in cyberspace', Media and Arts Law Review, pp. 181 - 191
Book Chapters
Bowrey K, 2022, 'Place and Race in Australian Copyright Law: May Gibbs’s and Albert Namatjira’s Copyright', in CAMBRIDGE LEGAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA, pp. 693 - 718, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108633949
Tualima HY; Bowrey K, 2022, 'Biological Resources as Cultural Property and Cultural Heritage', in Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources, Information and Traditional Knowledge, Routledge, pp. 209 - 220, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003301998
Bowrey K, 2021, 'Copyright Law: Philosophy, Legislative History and Basic Principles’', in Bowrey K; Handler M; Nicol D; Nielsen J; Weatherall K (ed.), Australian IP. Commentary, Law and Practice, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 20 - 38, https://www.oup.com.au/books/higher-education/law/9780190326456-australian-intellectual-property
Bowrey K, 2021, 'On Law, Law Schools and Law Reform: Honouring Emerita Professor Jill McKeough', in A Feminist Festschrift in Honour of Professor Jill McKeough, Federation Press, Australia, pp. 1 - 20, https://federationpress.com.au/product/feminist-perspectives-on-law-law-schools-and-law-reform/
Bowrey K, 2020, '‘“The Berne Convention is our ideal” — Hall Caine, Canadian Copyright and the natural rights of authors after 1886’', in Austin G; Richardson M; Kenyon A; Christie A (ed.), Across Intellectual Property Essays in Honour of Sam Ricketson, Cambridge University Press, pp. 102 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108750066
Bowrey K; Graham N, 2017, 'The Placelessness of Property, Intellectual Property and Cultural Heritage Law in the Australian Legal Landscape', in Logan W; Antons C (ed.), Intellectual Property, Cultural Property and Intangible Cultural Heritage, Taylor & Francis
Bowrey KA, 2016, 'Law, Aesthetics and Copyright Historiography: A Critical Reading of the Genealogies of Martha Woodmansee and Mark Rose', in Alexander I; Gomez-Arostegui T (ed.), Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 27 - 52
Bowrey KA; Salter B, 2014, 'Dramatic copyright and the Disneyfication of theatre space', in Bowrey K; Handler M (ed.), Law and Creativity in the Age of the Entertainment Franchise, Cambridge University Press, pp. 123 - 139, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/intellectual-property/law-and-creativity-age-entertainment-franchise
Bowrey K, 2014, 'Commentary: Kartinyerri', in Douglas H; Bartlett F; Luker T; Hunter R (ed.), Australian Feminist Judgments : Righting and Re-Writing Law, Federation Press, Australia, pp. 41 - 45
Bowrey KA; Handler M, 2014, 'Franchise Dynamics, Creativity and the Law', in Bowrey K; Handler M (ed.), Law and Creativity in the Age of the Entertainment Franchise, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 3 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139626781.002
Bowrey KA; Handler M, 2014, 'Instituting Copyright: Reconciling Copyright Law and Industry Practice in the Australian Film and Television Sector', in Bowrey KA; Handler M (ed.), Law and Creativity in the Age of the Entertainment Franchise, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 140 - 169, http://www.cambridge.org/au/academic/subjects/law/intellectual-property/law-and-creativity-age-entertainment-franchise?format=HB
Bowrey KA, 2012, 'International Trade in Indigenous Cultural Heritage: An Australian Perspective', in Graber CB; Kuprecht K; Lai JC (ed.), International Trade In Indigenous Cultural Heritage: Legal and Policy Issues, edn. Original, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, pp. 396 - 438, http://www.e-elgar.com/bookentry_main.lasso?id=14627
Bowrey KA, 2012, 'The World Daguerreotyped – What a Spectacle! Copyright law, photography and the economic mission of Empire', in Sherman B; Wiseman L (ed.), Copyright and the Challenge of the New, edn. Original, Wolters Kluwer, pp. 11 - 42
Bowrey K, 2012, 'The manufacture of 'authentic' buzz and the legal relations of MasterChef', in Amateur Media: Social, Cultural and Legal Perspectives, pp. 73 - 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203112021
Bowrey KA, 2012, 'The Manufacture of Authentic Buzz', in Hunter D; Lobato R; Richardson M; Thomas J (ed.), Amateur Media: Social, cultural and legal perspectives, edn. Original, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 73 - 93, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415782654/
Bowrey K, 2012, 'The manufacture of ‘authentic’ buzz and the legal relations of MasterChef', in Amateur Media: Social, cultural and legal perspectives, pp. 73 - 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203112021-15
Bowrey KA, 2011, 'Indigenous Culture, Knowledge and Intellectual Property', in Bowrey K; Handler M; Nicol D (ed.), Emerging Challenges in Intellectual Property, edn. Original, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 46 - 67, http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Law/IntellectualProperty/IntellectualProperty/?view=usa&ci=9780195575125roperty/?view=usa&sf=toc&ci=9780195575125
Bowrey KA, 2010, 'On clarifying the role of originality and fair use in 19th century UK jurisprudence: appreciating ‘the humble grey which emerges as the result of long controversy', in Bently L; Ng C; Agostino GD (ed.), The Common Law Of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Prof David Vaver, edn. Original, Hart Publishing, Oxford, UK, pp. 45 - 69
Bowrey KA, 2007, 'Fertile Ground: Law, Innovation and Creative Technologies', in McMillan F (ed.), New Directions in Copyright Law Vol 5, edn. Original, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 162 - 196
Bowrey KA, 2007, 'What are you missing out on? Big Media, Broadcasting, Copyright and Access to Innovation', in Kenyon AT (ed.), TV Futures: Digital Television Policy in Australia, edn. Original, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, pp. 135 - 165
Bowrey KA, 2006, 'The New, the Bad, the Hot, the fad - popular music, technology and the culture of freedom', in Macmillan F (ed.), New Directions in Copyright Law: Volume 2, edn. 2, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK, pp. 262 - 271
Bowrey KA, 2005, 'Can we afford to think about copyright in a global marketplace?', in Macmillan F (ed.), New Directions in Copyright Law: Volume 1, edn. Original, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 51 - 69
Bowrey KA, 2002, 'Who`s Painting Copyright`s History?', in McLean D; Schubert K (ed.), Dear Images: Art, Copyright and Culture, edn. 1, Ridinghouse and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK, pp. 256 - 274
Reports
Alexander I; Bowrey K; Handler M; Giblin R; Weatherall K, 2022, Submission 15 to Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications Consultation on the Exposure Draft of the Copyright Amendment (Access Reform) Bill 2021, https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/copyrightar2021-submission-no-15-australian-ip-academics.pdf
Bowrey K; Handler M; Aoun F, 2021, Submission to IP Australia’s Indigenous Knowledge Consultation Paper, https://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/sites/default/files/unsw_faculty_law_justice_submission_to_ip_australia_indigenous_knowledge_consultation_28_may_2021-1.pdf
Alexander I; Bowrey KA; Giblin R; Handler M; McKeough J; Pappalardo K; Ricketson S; Suzor N; Weatherall K, 2018, Submission to the Department of Communications and the Arts, Copyright Modernisation Consultation, https://www.communications.gov.au/sites/g/files/net301/f/submissions/alexander_et_al.pdf
Bowrey KA, 2016, Book review of Tiffany Jenkins, Keeping their Marbles. How the treasures of the past ended up in museums … and why they should stay there
Bowrey KA; Alexander I; Bond C; Burrell R; Greenleaf G; Handler M; Nicol D; Neilsen J; Weatherall K, 2016, Submission 505 to Productivity Commission, Intellectual Property Arrangements: Draft Report, http://www.pc.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/201520/subdr505-intellectual-property.pdf
Weatherall K; Bowrey KA; Handler M; Alexander I, 2016, Submission to Department of Communications on exposure draft of the Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and Other Measures) Bill 2016 (Cth)
Bowrey KA, 2016, Assessment of law journal rankings and methodologies adopted by eight law schools 2016,, Council of Australian Law Deans, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=2734017
Bowrey KA, 2015, Productivity Commission, Inquiry Into Australia’s Intellectual Property Arrangements, http://www.pc.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/194752/sub086-intellectual-property.pdf
Bowrey KA, 2013, Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission, Copyright and the Digital Economy: Discussion Paper Public Consultation, 2013, Australia
Bowrey KA, 2013, Submission 94 to the Australian Law Reform Commission, Copyright and the Digital Economy: Issues Paper Public Consultation, 2013, http://www.alrc.gov.au/inquiries/copyright-and-digital-economy/submissions-received-alrc
Bowrey KA, 2013, Submission 554 to the Australian Law Reform Commission, Copyright and the Digital Economy: Discussion Paper Public Consultation, 2013, http://www.alrc.gov.au/inquiries/copyright-and-digital-economy/submissions-received-alrc#Dpind
Bowrey KA, 2012, Kathy Bowrey, Report to Council of Australian Law Deans, Assessing Research Performance in the Discipline of Law, 2006-2011, Australia
Bowrey KA, 2012, Submission to the Attorney General’s Department Review of Australian Contracts Law, 19 July 2012, Australia, http://www.ag.gov.au/Consultations/Documents/SubmissionstotheReviewofAustralianContractLaw/Submission%20010%20-%20Contract%20Law%20Review%20-%20Bowrey.pdf
Bowrey KA, 2012, Assessing Research Performance in the Discipline of Law, 2006-2011., Council of Australian Law Deans, http://www.cald.asn.au/assets/lists/Resources/Prof%20Kathy%20Bowrey%20Research%20Quality%20Report%20to%20CALD.pdf
Books
Bellido J; Bowrey K, 2022, Adventures in Childhood Intellectual Property, Imagination and the Business of Play
Bowrey K; Handler M; Nicol D; Nielsen J; Weatherall K, 2021, Australian Intellectual Property: Commentary, Law and Practice, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, https://www.oup.com.au/books/higher-education/law/9780190326456-australian-intellectual-property
Bowrey K, 2020, Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value: Incorporating the Author, Routledge, London, https://www.routledge.com/Copyright-Creativity-Big-Media-and-Cultural-Value-Incorporating-the-Author/Bowrey/p/book/9780367192068
Bowrey K; Handler M; Nicol D; Weatherall K, 2015, Australian Intellectual Property: Commentary, Law and Practice, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, https://www.oup.com.au/books/higher-education/law/9780195598469-australian-intellectual-property
Bowrey K; Handler M; Nicol D, 2010, Australian Intellectual Property: Commentary, Law and Practice, Oxford University Press, Melbourne
Bowrey KA, 2005, Law & Internet Cultures, 1st, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne
Edited Books
Bowrey K, (ed.), 2021, A Feminist Festschrift in Honour of Professor Jill McKeough, Federation Press, Australia
Bowrey KA; Handler M; Nicol D; Weatherall K, (eds.), 2015, Australian Intellectual Property: Commentary, Law and Practice, Oxford University Press, Australia, http://www.oup.com.au/titles/higher_ed/law/academic__and__reference/9780195598469
Bowrey KA; Handler M, (ed.), 2014, Law and Creativity in the Age of the Entertainment Franchise, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, http://www.cambridge.org/au/academic/subjects/law/intellectual-property/law-and-creativity-age-entertainment-franchise?format=HB&isbn=9781107039896
Bowrey KA; Handler M; Nicol D, (eds.), 2011, Emerging Challenges in Intellectual Property, Oxford University Press, Melbourne
Bowrey KA; Handler M; Nicol D, (eds.), 2010, Australian Intellectual Property Law. Commentary, Law & Practice, Oxford University Press, Melbourne
Bowrey K; McKeough J; Griffith P, (eds.), 2007, Intellectual Property: Commentary and Materials, 3, Law Book Co., Sydney
MacMillan F; Bowrey KA, (ed.), 2006, New Directions in Copyright Law Vol 3, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK
Bowrey K; McKeough J; Griffith P, (eds.), 2002, Intellectual Property: Commentary and Materials, 3, Law Book Co., Sydney
Submissions to Government
Bhathela N; Bennett Moses L; Zalnieriute M; Clarke R; Manwaring K; Bowrey K; Bell F; Kearnes M, 2019, Response to ‘Artificial Intelligence: Governance and Leadership’ White Paper Consultation by Australian Human Rights Commission, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3352329
Other
Bowrey K; Handler M, 2016, 'Medicare Logo Case Shows the Urgent Need to Update Australia's IP Laws', The Conversation, 30 November 2016, https://theconversation.com/medicare-logo-case-shows-the-urgent-need-to-update-australias-ip-laws-69458
Conference Presentations
Bond C; Bowrey K, 2016, 'Dramatisation, Film and Performance Rights: Reconciling Nineteenth Century British Law and Business Practice', presented at Australasian IP Academics Conference, University of Western Australia, 03 February 2016
Bond C; Bowrey K, 2014, 'The Mystery of a Hansom Cab: An inquiry into how late 19th century copyright law supported colonial 'Australian' productions', presented at Australia and New Zealand Law and History Conference, University of New England, 10 December 2014
Bowrey K; Handler M, 2013, 'Instituting Copyright: Reconciling Copyright Law and Industry Practice in the Buying and Selling of TV Formats', presented at 5th Annual International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) Workshop, Cultural Economy and Intellectual Property, Universite Pantheon-Assas (Paris 2), 26 June 2013 - 28 June 2013
Preprints
Alexander I; Bond C; Bowrey K; Burrell R; Handler M; Greenleaf G; Nicol D; Nielsen JL; Weatherall KG, Submission in Response to the Australian Productivity Commission's Inquiry into IP Arrangements Draft Report, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2802102