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David Brennan is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney, and he specialises in the fields of patent and copyright law. He has taught intellectual property since 1996, including at the universities of Melbourne, Adelaide, Oxford and Monash.

In long-standing roles, he has served as a Copyright Policy Consultant to Screenrights – The Audio-Visual Copyright Society and as a General Editor of the Australian Intellectual Property Journal published by Thomson Reuters.

Kluwer Law International published his doctoral thesis (Retransmission and US Compliance with TRIPS) in 2003, and in 2021, The Federation Press published his treatise on Australian copyright law (Copyright Law).

He is the author of over 40 published pieces of legal research, including three long form articles published in the Sweet & Maxwell UK journal the Intellectual Property Quarterly: ‘The Evolution of English Patent Clams as Property Definers’ in 2005; ‘Biogen sufficiency reconsidered’ in 2009; and ‘The Root of Title to Copyright in Works’ in 2015.