Delia Browne, National Copyright Director of the Copyright Advisory Group (CAG) MCEETYA

Delia is an extremely experienced intellectual property lawyer. Prior to this position, she worked at Minter Ellison providing specialist copyright advice to the education sector. She also has considerable experience in entertainment law and assisted in setting up an entertainment and intellectual property practice at Michell Sillar Attorneys in Sydney.

She has considerable experience in law reform and lobbying. In her role as the Executive Director of the Arts Law Centre of Australia (1996 -2002), Delia advised the arts sector in respect of legislative reforms and policy in intellectual property and taxation. She negotiated and drafted amendments to the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000 and to A New Tax System (Integrity Measures) Act 2000. Her most recent success to is the negotiation and implementation of the ATO Tax Ruling 2005/1 'Carrying on business as a professional arts practitioner'. This ruling is now regarded as the international benchmark on the tax treatment of artists.

Delia continues to teach industrial and intellectual property at the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales and is sought after conference and seminar speaker. She has extensive publication record and is a member of the editorial boards of the Media Arts Law Review and New Zealand Intellectual Property Journal.