Daniela Simone

Honorary Lecturer

Biography

Dr Daniela Simone is Senior Lecturer at Macquarie Law School (Sydney, Australia) and Honorary Lecturer at UCL Laws. 

Daniela’s research explores the intersection of law, technology, and culture. She is interested in collaborative authorship, artificial intelligence, the disruption new technology has brought to copyright, the interaction between law and social norms, the international IP system, philosophy of IP, and the regulation of cultural property. Her work embraces comparative and interdisciplinary methods; and, she is keen to engage directly with stakeholders.

Prior to relocating to Australia, Daniela was a Lecturer in Law and Co-Director of the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law at UCL. At UCL she designed the LLM Comparative Copyright Law course and taught on Intellectual Property law, Contemporary Aspects of IP, Laws Connections, and International and Comparative Trade Mark Law courses. 

Daniela holds DPhil, MPhil, and BCL degrees from the University of Oxford and a BA (English and French)/LLB (Hons I) degree from the University of Sydney. Daniela is a qualified lawyer and has worked at global commercial law firm, Ashurst. Daniela was founder of the University of Oxford’s IP Discussion Group (and its convenor until 2013). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with extensive experience in course design and innovative, research-led teaching.

Daniela’s monograph, Copyright and Collective Authorship: Locating the Authors of Collaborative Work (Cambridge University Press, 2019) was cited in Kogan v Martin [2019] EWCA Civ 1645 – a landmark case on joint authorship. For more information and details of recent publications, visit Daniela's Macquarie Law School profile.