Rebecca Giblin (she/her) is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor at Melbourne Law School, and the Director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia. Her work sits at the intersection of law and culture, focusing on creators’ rights, access to knowledge and culture, technology regulation and copyright. Using quantitative, qualitative, doctrinal and comparative methods, she leads interdisciplinary teams with expertise across data science, cultural economics, literary sociology, information research and law to better understand how law impacts the creation and dissemination of creative works.

Giblin leads the Author’s Interest Project (authorsinterest.org) investigating how fuller protection of creators’ rights can help get them paid and simultaneously reclaim lost culture. She also heads up the e-Lending Project (elendingproject.org), working with an international team of legal, social and data science researchers and library partners to study the legal and social impacts of library elending. And she is director of Untapped: the Australian Literary Heritage Project (untapped.org.au), which has rescued over 160 culturally important Australian books and made them available for retail sale and for access via libraries.

Giblin is currently also exploring questions around generative AI and creatorship, particularly the extent to which AI technologies give rise to a case for 'rights to self' – that is, rights which focus on what is due to us as humans – as distinct from what is due to machines, and what is due to corporations.

Giblin’s books include Code Wars (2011) and What if we could reimagine copyright? (with Professor Kimberlee Weatherall, 2017). Her latest book Chokepoint Capitalism (co-authored with Cory Doctorow, 2022) explains how Big Tech and Big Content captured creative labour markets, and how we can take them back.

With Professor Kimberlee Weatherall, Giblin co-hosts IP Provocations, a podcast asking challenging and sometimes controversial questions on issues around intellectual property and data. Find out more or subscribe at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ip-provocations.

Rebecca has held visiting scholar and visiting professor positions at Columbia Law School (2011), UC Berkeley (2013), Strasbourg (2015) and Sciences-Po Paris (2018). She is a CREATe Fellow (at the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy at the University of Glasgow) and Affiliated Faculty with the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.