GC O'Donnell essay prizewinners
Click here for information about the biennial CG O'Donnell essay prize.
Here is a list of previous winners, showing which issue of Copyright Reporter the essay was published in.
| year | author | essay | Copyright Reporter |
| 2007 | Frank Moorhouse (co-winner) | 'The Escape from ‘Eccentric Penury’: How should we pay literary authors? Policy visions for the Australian writing economy' | (2008) 26 Copy Reptr 4 |
| 2007 | Pam Foo (co-winner) | 'Do copyright owners understand how to use Creative Commons licences?' | (2007) 25 Copy Reptr |
| 2005 | Kathleen Birrell | ‘Authorship and the Dreaming’: Indigenous Culture and Intellectual Property Law | (2005) 23 Copy Reptr 32 |
| 2003 | Kate Gilchrist | Art and the Blindness of Copyright: Recognising Contemporary Art Practices in Anglo-Australian Copyright Law | (2004) 22 Copy Reptr 37 |
| 2001 | Ian Oi | American copyright in Australian cyberspace: some observations and implications | (2001) 19 Copy Reptr 105 |
| 1999 | Nicholas Blackmore | The Search for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Legal Protection of Aboriginal Art | (1999) 17 Copy Reptr 57 |
| 1997 | Michelle Cooper | Moral Rights and the Australian Film and Television Industries | (1997) 15 Copy Reptr 166 |
| 1995 | Judith Bannister (co-winner) | It ain’t what you say, it’s the way that you say it. Could freedom of political expression operate as a defence to copyright infringement in Australia? | (1996) 14 Copy Reptr 22 |
| 1995 | Catriona Dove (co-winner) | A Case of Unparalleled Exploitation | (1995) 13 Copy Reptr 107 |
| 1993 | Moana Weir | The Parodist’s Nirvana: Droit Moral & Comparative Copyright Law | (1995) 12 Copy Reptr 1 |
| 1991 | Stephanie McCarthy (co-winner) | A cautionary tale | (1992) 10 Copy Reptr 19 |
| 1991 | Kerrie Henderson (co-winner) | Copyright, parallel imports and development | (1992) 10 Copy Reptr 6 |
| 1989 | Janis Polfanders | The idea/expression dichotomy in the light of cases in Australia and the United States dealing with computer software | (1989) 7 Copy Reptr 1 |