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Dr Kylie Pappalardo
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Biography
Dr Kylie Pappalardo studies how automation, digital distribution, and intellectual property laws shape the reach and diversity of our culture. Her work seeks to develop and inform law, public policy and industry norms that prioritise marginalised voices and diverse perspectives in the production and distribution of screen content.Kylie is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), a Chief Investigator with the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Research (DECRA) Fellow (2021-2024) (DE210100525).
Her DECRA project examines the impact of copyright law in Australia’s screen industries, focusing on distribution and access to audiovisual material. It considers how the high costs and complex logistics of screen production and distribution can be reconciled with the public goal of broad, affordable and sustained availability of audiovisual content that represents the full diversity of Australia’s people and cultures.
Kylie holds degrees in Law and Creative Writing from QUT, a Master of Law from Georgetown University in Washington D.C., and a PhD from the Australian Catholic University. Her doctoral thesis examined the regulation of online service providers for third party copyright infringement.
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Keywords
Copyright, Intellectual Property, Intermediary liability, Open Access, Online Governance, Regulation, Digital Media, IPIL, DMRC
Research field
Other law and legal studies
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD (Australian Catholic Uni)
- Master of Law (Queensland University of Technology)
- Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Creative Industries (Creative Writing) (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Laws (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Chief Investigator, Digital Media Research Centre
Publications
- Pappalardo, K., (2023). A New Framework for Intermediary Liability: Copyright, Causation and Control on the Internet. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/238910
- Burgess, J., Bartolo, L., Gray, J., Hutchinson, J., Kaye, D., Matamoros Fernandez, A., Pappalardo, K. & Wikstrom, P. (2025). 'Diversity' as multidisciplinary keyword for the politics of cultural recommender systems in global digital media platforms. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 28(1), 307–315. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/247860
- Bowrey, K., Cochrane, T., Hadley, M., McKeough, J., Pappalardo, K. & Weatherall, K. (2024). Managing Ownership of Copyright in Research Publications to Increase the Public Benefits from Research. Federal Law Review, 52(1), 3–33. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/245379
- Pappalardo, K., (2023). Empirical methods for researching copyright in Australia. In E. Derclaye (Ed.), Research Handbook on Empirical Studies in Intellectual Property Law (pp. 195–216). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/241709
- Pappalardo, K. & Aufderheide, P. (2020). Romantic remixers: Hidden tropes of romantic authorship in creators' attitudes about reuse. Cultural Science, 12(1), 1–12. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/180847
- Parkin, S. & Pappalardo, K. (2020). Protecting Indigenous art and culture: How the law fails to prevent exploitation. Precedent (159), 32–37. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/204071
- Pappalardo, K. & Meese, J. (2019). In support of tolerated use: Rethinking harms, moral rights and remedies in Australian copyright law. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 42(3), 928–952. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/133225
- Aufderheide, P., Pappalardo, K., Suzor, N. & Stevens, J. (2018). Calculating the consequences of narrow Australian copyright exceptions: Measurable, hidden and incalculable costs to creators. Poetics, 69, 15–26. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/119545
- Pappalardo, K. & Suzor, N. (2018). The liability of Australian online intermediaries. The Sydney Law Review, 40(4), 469–498. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/223493
- Pappalardo, K., Aufderheide, P., Stevens, J. & Suzor, N. (2017). Imagination foregone: A qualitative study of the reuse practices of Australian creators. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/115940
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Kylie, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees
- Reference year
- 2025
- Details
- Steering Committee member, Australian Government Attorney General’s Department Copyright and AI Reference Group (CAIRG)
- Type
- Other
- Reference year
- 2024
- Details
- Board of Directors, Australian Digital Alliance (ADA) - Australia's peak body representing copyright users
- Type
- Fellowship of a Learned Academy or Membership of AIATSIS
- Reference year
- 2017
- Details
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PR138907)
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Vice Chancellor's Performance Award for Excellence in Teaching
Selected research projects
- Title
- Reconceptualising Copyright to Improve Access to Screen Culture
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DE210100525
- Start year
- 2021
- Keywords
- Title
- Producing, Managing and Owning Knowledge in the 21st Century University
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP200101578
- Start year
- 2020
- Keywords
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Current supervisions
- The Health of Cultural Markets Under Copyright: Streaming Platforms and Cultural Exclusion
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Nicolas Suzor, Dr David Richard - Crip Futures in Screen Production: Disability Justice Behind the Camera
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Bree Hadley - Evolving Dynamics of Media Policy in India: Cultural and Political Implications of Streaming
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Amanda Lotz - Decolonising mainstream media interactions with Indigenous Australians
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Sean Maher, Dr Amy McQuire - Systemic Bias In GenAI: A Critical Legal Framework For Addressing Representational Harms
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Nicolas Suzor, Professor Mark Burdon - Investigating Artificial Intelligence-generated Content Production in the Chinese Platform Economy
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Patrik Wikstrom
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Algorithmic Recommendation as Repair Work: Towards a More Just Distribution of Attention on Cultural and Entertainment Digital Platforms (2024)
- The datafied polity: Voter privacy in the age of data-driven political campaigning (2023)
- Open publishing and the value of access (2022)
- Golden Pagodas and Platinum Albums: Developing and Decolonizing Copyright in Myanmar (2021)
- Towards Global Policy Coherence for Tobacco Plain Packaging: Examining the Challenges for Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2021)
- Gender Equality and Women's Land Inheritance Disputes in Vietnam (2019)
- The Impact of Trade Secrets Law on Employees and Society: In Search of a Balanced Theoretical and Legal Approach with Special Reference to Australia and Sri Lanka (2019)
- Twitter Trials and Facebook Juries: An Analysis of the Australian Sub Judice Rule and the Regulation of Prejudicial Publicity on Social Media During High-Profile Criminal Trials (2019)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
Supervision topics
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.