Joel Cooper
A final-year PhD candidate at Queensland University of Technology, with an undergraduate background in law, business and politics (University of Newcastle), who explores the distribution of older films on streaming platforms from the perspective of copyright law and theory
Thesis Title: ‘The Health of Cultural Markets Under Copyright: Back Catalogue Films on Streaming Platforms and Cultural Exclusion’
My PhD project values what Madhavi Sunder labels '… truly democratic participation in cultural debates about the meaning of the works themselves'.
— Madhavi Sunder, ‘From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice’ (51)