Rebecca Giblin

Rebecca Giblin is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, where she directs the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia. Her interdisciplinary research spans copyright law, creators' rights, digital technologies, and cultural access, employing quantitative, qualitative, and comparative methods to examine how legal frameworks impact creative production and dissemination. She leads major projects including the Author's Interest Project (investigating creator compensation), e-Lending Project (studying library digital lending), and Untapped (preserving Australian literary heritage).

Her research interests focus on intellectual property reforms that balance creator rights with public access, examining how digital platforms and copyright systems affect cultural production. Current investigations explore generative AI's impact on creatorship and rights frameworks.

Giblin's publication portfolio demonstrates sustained focus on copyright reform, digital access models, and creator economics, with recent work examining streaming regulation, cultural heritage preservation, and antitrust solutions for creative labor markets. Her influential 2022 book Chokepoint Capitalism analyzes corporate capture of creative markets.

Awards and recognition include an ARC Future Fellowship, CREATe Fellowship (UK), and visiting positions at Columbia, Berkeley, and Sciences-Po Paris. She co-hosts the IP Provocations podcast and maintains affiliations with Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.