Last Updated: 22 November 2006

Nic Suzor is a PhD student in the law school at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, exploring legal issues relating to the legitimate governance of virtual environments. His background is in both law and computer science, holding undergraduate degrees in Law and IT from QUT, and having worked as a computer programmer before moving to legal research. He has recently completed a Masters of Laws (research), in which his thesis examined the transformative use of copyright material in Australia. He is involved in several research projects including Creative Commons Australia, research into legal issues of Free and Open Source Software, computer games (with particular reference to massively multiplayer online environments), and collaborative commons-based production.

Nic teaches jurisprudence in QUT’s undergraduate law programme, and legal issues in QUT’s Creative Industries faculty.

Nic joined the EFA Board in 2006.