Associate Professor Cheryl Foong is Co-Director of Research & Innovation at Curtin Law School, Curtin University, Australia. Cheryl teaches Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Competition Law and publishes on copyright law in the digital environment. She speaks regularly at national and international conferences as a copyright expert. An example is Cheryl's invited presentation on artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright disputes at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Conversation on IP and Frontier Technologies (Ninth Session, March 2024).

Cheryl’s book, The Making Available Right: Realizing the Potential of Copyright's Dissemination Function in the Digital Age (Edward Elgar, 2019), critically analyses copyright owners’ exclusive right to make content available to the public in an online environment driven by on-demand access, and compares United States, European Union and Australian law on the topic. The book was cited and quoted by the Supreme Court of Canada in
Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada v. Entertainment Software Association, 2022 SCC 30, and has attracted positive reviews nationally and internationally. Emeritus Professor Sam Ricketson AM from the University of Melbourne described it as 'elegantly executed' in the Journal of the IP Society of Australia and NewZealand (Issue 121, September 2020) and Dr Hayleigh Bosher wrote in the The IP Kat (29 May2020) that it was 'an important body of research that can have real impact on the future of copyright'.

Earlier in her career, Cheryl was a researcher with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) at QUT in Brisbane. She engaged in direct outreach effortswith stakeholders on open content copyright licensing and open access policy, authored articles and practical guides on Creative Commons licensing, and wrote submissions to the Australian Government on copyright law. In addition to her research and outreach commitments, Cheryl coordinated a pro bono IP and technology law clinic for artists and innovative start-ups at the Queensland Public Interest Law Clearing House (QPILCH), a community legal centre in Brisbane,as a joint initiative with QUT. At ACU School of Law in Melbourne, Cheryl taught in the foundationalLegal Reading, Writing and Research unit, and prior to joining Curtin, Cheryl was a summer law clerk at the United States Copyright Office (Office of Policy and International Affairs) in Washington DC.