Jessica Coates

Local Context Global Commons: Open Publishing

Jessica Coates is the Project Manager of the Creative Commons Clinic, a programme of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Innovation at Queensland University of Technology. The Clinic aims to further the implementation of the international open content licensing movement, Creative Commons, through the promotion of Creative Commons research and usage in Australia.

Prior to joining the Clinic, Jessica spent most of the last decade as a copyright and communications policy officer with the Commonwealth Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA - now the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy). At DCITA, Jessica worked primarily in the Intellectual Property Branch, where she took a major role in the development and implementation of copyright reform, including the Digital Agenda Amendments and the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement. Whilst with DCITA, Jessica also worked on the ABC and SBS policy and on IT usage by museums.

She has a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts (English Hons) from the Australian National University.


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