The Right to Repair movement asserts that we all have the right to repair our own things, and manuals and diagnostic tools used by manufacturers should be made available to the public. These policies seek to end the monopoly that manufacturers have created on the repair. The final inquiry report is to be handed to the Australian Government in October 2021.

Professor Leanne Wiseman from the Griffith Law School will discuss the emerging international Right to Repair movement, including the legal and regulatory responses currently being developed in Australia and internationally. Please join us for this online event.

About the speaker

Professor Leanne Wiseman

Professor in Law at Griffith University

Leanne Wiseman is a Professor in Law at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia and is Associate Director of the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture (ACIPA). Leanne is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research lies at the intersections of law, science and digital technologies. Her research expertise focuses on the intersection between law and new technologies, with particular attention to the intersection of law with big data, digital technologies and agriculture.

She has most recently focused on the legal dimensions of the digitisation of agriculture and has explored the legal consequences of the adoption and uptake of digital technologies in agricultural industries in national and international contexts. Leanne was the lead Legal researcher on a large Australian Commonwealth Government-funded research grant: Accelerating Precision Agriculture to Decision Agriculture, 2016-2018.

The collaborative project's aim was to design a solution for the use of big data in agriculture while increasing the profitability of producers, providing clarity about data ownership and access rights, and improving digital strategies and governance within Australian agriculture. This work is shaping international responses to the legal consequences of digital technologies in agriculture. From this research, Leanne is currently investigating the role of intellectual property law in responding to the emerging International Right to Repair movement.