Tom Cochrane is adjunct professor, Faculty of Law at the Queensland University of Technology. His external duties include serving as a director of the Australian Digital Alliance, the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation and bluebox, QUT's technology transfer and commercialization company. He is also a member of the National Research Infrastructure Council and a member of the Publications Board of the CSIRO. He is co-leader of the Creative Commons project for which QUT is the institutional partner for Australia.