Dr Kylie Pappalardo
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Biography
Dr Kylie Pappalardo studies how automation, digital distribution, and intellectual property laws shape the reach and diversity of our culture. Her work seeks to develop and inform law, public policy and industry norms that prioritise marginalised voices and diverse perspectives in the production and distribution of screen content.Kylie is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), a Chief Investigator with the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Research (DECRA) Fellow (2021-2024) (DE210100525).
Her DECRA project examines the impact of copyright law in Australia’s screen industries, focusing on distribution and access to audiovisual material. It considers how the high costs and complex logistics of screen production and distribution can be reconciled with the public goal of broad, affordable and sustained availability of audiovisual content that represents the full diversity of Australia’s people and cultures.
Kylie holds degrees in Law and Creative Writing from QUT, a Master of Law from Georgetown University in Washington D.C., and a PhD from the Australian Catholic University. Her doctoral thesis examined the regulation of online service providers for third party copyright infringement.
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Keywords
Copyright, Intellectual Property, Intermediary liability, Open Access, Online Governance, Regulation, Digital Media, IPIL, DMRC
Research field
Law
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Australian Catholic Uni)
- Master of Law (Queensland University of Technology)
- Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Creative Industries (Creative Writing) (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Laws (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Chief Investigator, Digital Media Research Centre
Publications
- Pappalardo, K., (2023). A New Framework for Intermediary Liability: Copyright, Causation and Control on the Internet. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/238910
- Pappalardo, K., (2023). Empirical methods for researching copyright in Australia. In E. Derclaye (Ed.), Research Handbook on Empirical Studies in Intellectual Property Law (pp. 195–216). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/241709
- Pappalardo, K. & Aufderheide, P. (2020). Romantic remixers: Hidden tropes of romantic authorship in creators' attitudes about reuse. Cultural Science, 12(1), 1–12.
- Parkin, S. & Pappalardo, K. (2020). Protecting Indigenous art and culture: How the law fails to prevent exploitation. Precedent (159), 32–37. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/204071
- Pappalardo, K. & Meese, J. (2019). In support of tolerated use: Rethinking harms, moral rights and remedies in Australian copyright law. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 42(3), 928–952. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/133225
- Aufderheide, P., Pappalardo, K., Suzor, N. & Stevens, J. (2018). Calculating the consequences of narrow Australian copyright exceptions: Measurable, hidden and incalculable costs to creators. Poetics, 69, 15–26. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/119545
- Pappalardo, K. & Suzor, N. (2018). The liability of Australian online intermediaries. The Sydney Law Review, 40(4), 469–498. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/223493
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Kylie, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Vice Chancellor's Performance Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Thomas B Chetwood SJ Prize awarded for graduate with best GPA in the General LLM Degree at Georgetown University for the 2010-2011 academic year. GPA was 3.97 out of 4. Graduated with Distinction and on the Dean's List.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2007
- Details
- Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research (for work on the OAK Law Project)
Selected research projects
- Title
- Reconceptualising Copyright to Improve Access to Screen Culture
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DE210100525
- Start year
- 2021
- Keywords
- Title
- Producing, Managing and Owning Knowledge in the 21st Century University
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP200101578
- Start year
- 2020
- Keywords
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Current supervisions
- PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr David Richard - Evolving Media Dynamics in Illiberal Democracies: Cultural and Political Implications of Subscription Video On Demand Services
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Amanda Lotz - PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Jessa Rogers
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Open publishing and the value of access (2022)
- Golden Pagodas and Platinum Albums: Developing and Decolonizing Copyright in Myanmar (2021)
- Gender Equality and Women's Land Inheritance Disputes in Vietnam (2019)
- The Impact of Trade Secrets Law on Employees and Society: In Search of a Balanced Theoretical and Legal Approach with Special Reference to Australia and Sri Lanka (2019)
- Twitter Trials and Facebook Juries: An Analysis of the Australian Sub Judice Rule and the Regulation of Prejudicial Publicity on Social Media During High-Profile Criminal Trials (2019)