Delia Browne

Education Policy and Practice in a New Century: Implementing what Works

Delia Browne is an extremely experienced intellectual property lawyer. Prior to her role as the National Copyright Director of the Copyright Advisory Group, Delia worked at Minter Ellison providing specialist copyright advice to the education sector. Delia has considerable experience in law reform and lobbying. In her role as the Executive Director of the Arts Law Centre of Australia (1996 - 2002), she advised the arts sector in respect of legislative reforms and policy in intellectual property and taxation. In her current role as the National Copyright Director, Delia manages the newly formed National Copyright Unit of Copyright Advisory Group which provides specialist copyright advice to schools and the TAFE sector, implements smart copying initiatives and conducts negotiations with collecting societies on behalf of schools and TAFE institutes. In 2005, Delia led the education sector in its lobbying efforts for copyright law review. This resulted in the introduction of new legislative exceptions with significant benefits to the education sector.

Delia is a strong advocate of the open education movement. She was an active participant in the 2007 iSummit Open Education Track in Dubrovnik. Recently, Delia attended the Cape Town Open Education meeting convened by the Open Society Institute and the Shuttleworth Foundation to promote open resources, technology and teaching practices in education internationally. She and the other Cape Town attendees drafted the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. Delia continues to work at CC Australia and CCLearn in promoting open education in Australia.