jessica coates

Jessica Coates is the former Project Manager of Creative Commons Australia and the Creative Commons Clinic, a program of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Innovation at Queensland University of Technology. The Clinic aims to examine the legal mechanisms to encourage innovation in the creative industries, and promote and track the implementation of the international open content licensing movement, Creative Commons, in Australia. In this role, Jessica teaches an advanced research unit for the QUT School of Law, is a frequent guest lecturer at institutions around Australia, and presents regularly at national and international industry conferences, workshops and masterclasses. Prior to working for 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). She now works as a copyright adviser to the broadcasting industry in Australia.