Seminars

Seminars & Workshops

Sharon Givoni regularly runs seminars and workshops for educational institutions, businesses and industry associations.

The topics that Sharon can present on include:

  • Branding and trade marks;
  • The basic laws surrounding businesses;
  • Proactive strategies for businesses to protect their IP;
  • Recent developments in IP law;
  • The nuts and bolts of copyright law and how it affects businesses;
  • Ownership of IP and steps business should take to protect themselves;
  • Unravelling the copyright/design overlap;
  • Contractual issues that arise in IP;
  • How to protect industrial designs, such as the shapes of products;
  • Internet law and social media: legal tips and traps;
  • IP issues for interior designers;
  • IP issues for architects;
  • Intellectual property issues arising in food law;
  • Fashion law: recent updates and what designers need to know;
  • Legal issues in photography;
  • Legal issues in street art; and
  • Many others

Past Seminars & Workshops

  • The Real World VS The Digital World at the Melbourne Convention Centre
  • Internet, Intellectual Property and your business at the Hawthorn Arts Centre
  • Seminar presentation as guest speaker at Martin Higher Education
  • Commercialising Copyright: Innovation and the ‘ideas boom’. Copyright in Social Media: Practical Risk Management
  • Understanding copyright for creatives & small businesses, Sydney
  • Intellectual property, packaging and labelling (legal training)
  • Copyright in Social Media: Practical Risk Management
  • Understanding Copyright for Creatives & Small Businesses, Sydney
  • Intellectual Property, Packaging and Labelling (Legal Training)
  • Reed Gift Fairs: The Law Made Easy for Creative Business
  • LifeInstyle – Conversation series: Legal Tips and Trade for Retailers Made Easy
  • Is this legal? – Creative Professional Development Series 2016
  • Understanding Copyright for Creatives & Small Businesses
  • Life in Style – Training Wheels
  • The internet and social media – what you need to know legally speaking
  • Design and Articles – Art & Life Workshop
  • Brand Protection and Copyright Basics
  • 2nd International Convention on the Economy of Innovation
  • 2nd Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference
  • Brick + Mortar Workshop: Copyright and Design Law for Creatives
  • Unbilled Guest Speaker: Creative and the law – What you need to know
  • Copyright & IP law… An essential course for creative people
  • Australia’s Family Business 17th National Conference
  • A Creative Guide to Copyright
  • Seminar: Copyright, Contracts and the Law for Creatives with Sharon Givoni
  • Seminar: Copyright and Design Law for Makers and Craftspeople