Sampsung Xiaoxiang Shi

Higher Degree Research Student

Research Assistant, CCI, Australia
PhD Student, QUT, Australia
LLB/LLM, ECUPL, China

Contact:

Room: C302 (Gardens Point campus)
Tel: (07) 313 82166
Fax: (07) 313 81161
Email: xiaoxiang.shi@qut.edu.au

Enrolment:

PhD in Law (full time)

Thesis Title:

Copyright Law in the We-Media Age: A Need for Reform to Facilitate the Internet Culture in China

Thesis Abstract:

The current copyright legal framework has been established on individualized authorship and centralized creativity model. However the widespread use of the Internet and rapid pace of technological advances have severely changed how information, knowledge and culture are produced, disseminated and consumed, altering the creativity mechanisms in human society. We are on the threshold of the We-Media world (also referred to as ‘participatory media’, ‘social media’ , or ‘citizen media’ ) and a ‘collaborative age’. How copyright regime should be reformed to accommodate and foster the collaborative creativity of information and knowledge in the networked information economy, especially in China?

This research finds that the individualized authorship does not fit collaborative creativity. Moreover, in the participatory media age, a law of the users’ rights should receive more attention within the copyright legal framework.

Publications:

X Shi, ‘The Old Regime in a New World: Copyright Law, Peer Production and Users’ Rights’, (conference paper), presented  at ‘the First International Conference on Legal and Policy Framework for Content Industry’ in Shanghai, China in May 2007.

Supervisors:

Prof Brian F Fitzgerald

Dr Anne Maria Fitzgerald

Media Releases:

The First International Conference on Legal and Policy Framework for Content Industry, NETEASE (www.163.com)

Why I chose to study at the Faculty of Law:

My research interests which cover intellectual property law, creativity of knowledge and culture, and innovation fall into one of QUT’s strongest research areas.

Biography:

Sampsung Xiaoxiang Shi is a research assistant to Prof. Brian Fitzgerald, doing his PhD in the faculty of law of QUT since October 2006. His topic for PhD research focuses on copyright law, user-generated content and participatory media in the networked information economy in Australia and China. Sampsung received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in law from the East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL), and became an academic in ECUPL in 2006. From 2003 to 2006, he was research assistant to Professor Fuping Gao, Dean of Intellectual Property School of ECUPL, and co-authored several research reports for the Shanghai government. In May 2007, he presented a research paper and delivered a speech at ‘the First International Conference on Legal and Policy Framework for Content Industry’ in Shanghai, China.