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Journal Articles
Copyright as welfare right : a comment on the UK Intellectual Property Office Consultation on copyright and artificial intelligence (AI) OR ‘You didn’t tell me you didn’t want me to steal your Mars bars’, Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2025, 1-9Let a thousand Flowers bloom? Music and the cultural bias of copyright , 14(4) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2024, 341-347Thirty years of legal research: An empirical analysis of outputs submitted to RAE and REF (1990-2021) (co-authored with Phillip Johnson), 00(0) Modern Law Review, 1-39Is copyright some kind of funhouse? The literary work of character, story worlds, and the play of adaptation , 14(2) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property 2024, 107-121 People or patents, inventors or owners: why the Supreme Court decision on artificial intelligence and invention in Thaler is significant for all intellectual property 14(1) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2024, 1-6Living in the pastiche: From Barbieland to Computer World , all the world’s a paste 13(4) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2023, 379-391Page against the machine: the death of the author and the rise of the producer? 13(3) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2023, 275-284The intellectual property in sustainable fashion: standards are up to the mark , 13(2) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2023, 141-152The authorial fallacy: what literary theory, Roald Dahl, Donald Trump, and artificial intelligence have in common , 13(1) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2023, 1-10Temporal parts and free space: an anecdotal explanation of intellectual property and the metaverse, or, how I met Bill Cornish , 12(4) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2022, 433-440The nostalgia of copyright: how performers make movies, and other sounds of authorship , 12(3) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2022, 307-311Choose your plan: Amazon’s acquisition of MGM and the streaming wars for our cinematic heritage , 12(2) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2022, 165-171And just like that … he’s alive! Transactions in character from television to brand , 12(1) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2022, 1-8Artificial intelligence and patents: DABUS and methods for attracting enhanced attention to inventor s, 11(4) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2021, 401-408The thousand-and-second tale of NFTs, as foretold by Edgar Allan Poe , 11(3), Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2021, 249-269When games are the only fashion in town: Covid-19, Animal Crossing and the future of fashion , 11(2), Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2021, 117-123Sine qua non-sense: originality and the end of copyright , 10(4), Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2020, 411-417.No More , 10(3), Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2020, 271-282.Brands make believe: ethical veganism and labelling in fashion , 10(2) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2020, 143-151.Where have you been? CGI film stars and reanimation horrors , 10(1) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2020, 1-6Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? Animals in art and morality in copyright , 9(4) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2019, 359-363Tilting at windmills: the law of evocation in geographical indications and designations of origin , 9(3) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2019, 239-243‘Gimme the prize’: the author dysfunction , 9(2) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2019, 127-133An aristocracy of authors , 9(1) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2019, 1-2The “new” tort of passing off . Law Quarterly Review 131, 2015, 474-494 (co-authored with P Johnson). ISSN: 0023-933XLet me tell you a story … intellectual property, character, narration , 1(2) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 2011, 112-129, ISSN: 20459815The UDHR and the Group: Individual and Community Rights to Culture , 30(1) Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy, Fall 2008, ISSN 07361033The Discovery of Invention: Gene Patents and the Question of Patentability , [2007] 12 Journal of Intellectual Property Rights 45-56, ISSN: 0971-5544Consumer Protection: Consumer Strategies and the European Market in Genetically Modified Foods , [2006], 5 Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property, 176-191Markets in Tradition: Traditional Agricultural Communities and the Impact of GMOs [2006] 3(3) SCRIPT-ed 216-225, ISSN: 1744-2567 Zur Durchsetzbarkeit von Immaterialgüterrechten in Bulgarien (Co-author with M. Blakeney and G. Westkamp) [2006] 15(9) Wirtschaft und Recht in Osteuropa 271-276, ISSN: 0941-6293 The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: A Valuable Affair [2006] 3(1) SCRIPT-ed 2, ISSN: 1744-2567 Patenting Lives: Life Patents, Culture, and Development [2006] 11(2) Journal of Intellectual Property Rights 103-112, ISSN: 0971-5544Patenting Lives [2005] 2(3) SCRIPT-ed 319, ISSN: 1744-2567Intellectual Property Systems, Traditional Knowledge, and the Legal Authority of Community [2004] 26 European Intellectual Property Review 280-290, ISSN: 0142-0461 Traditional Knowledge and the International Context for Protection [2004] 1(1) SCRIPT-ed 48-82, ISSN: 1744-2567 Trading Places With Communities: Toward the Protection of Traditional Knowledge in the Context of International Trade and Global Markets [2003] 2(1) Journal of International Trade Law and Policy, ISSN: 1477-0024The National Encroachment Upon Community Space: Recent Australian Decisions in Indigenous Rights to Natural Resources [2003] 2(2) XchangesSelf-Preservation is the First Law of Nature: Conserving the Cultural Diversity in India’s Biological Resources [2003] 24(1) South Asian Review 62-75, ISSN: 0275-9527The Cultural Diversity in Biodiversity: The Protection of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Resources in a Global Context [2003] 2 (Spring) Situation Analysis 46-61, ISSN: 1478-2014Justice of Precedent, Justness of Equity: Equitable Protection and Remedies for Indigenous Intellectual Property [2001] 6(4) Australian Indigenous Law Reporter 1-21, ISSN: 1323-7756 Human Rites: The Very Public Affair of Genetic Engineering and Policy, 33(1) Southern Review , [2000], 22-51, ISSN 00374526An Ethical Speech for Dumb Animals , 30(1) Southern Review, [1997], 81-93, ISSN 00384526
Book Chapters
‘The pretension is nothing; the performance everything’ : The Origin of Performers’ Rights and the Creation of the Performer as Artist, in Sean P Morris (ed) The Silent Peacemaker: Intellectual Property Rights and the Interwar International Legal Order, 1919-1939 (Brill 2024), 399-444 Commentary on H Howe, Who Let the Pigs Out: Rooting for the ‘Good Farmer” in Savage v Fairclough , in H Dancer et al (eds) UK Earth Law Judgments All words and no performance: a revolution in copyright through performance in sound, Book Chapter in Reforming Intellectual Property , Gustavo Ghidini and Valeria Falce (eds) (Edward Elgar Publishing 2022), pp 95-124. ISBN 978 1 80392 224 9
Animals and Property: A Person Possessed, Book Chapter in The Routledge Handbook in Property, Law and Society , Nicole Graham, Margaret Davies & Lee Godden (eds) (Routledge 2022). ISBN 9780367688813
The Man behind the Curtain: Developing Film’s Double Exposure of Intellectual Property , Book Chapter in Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860-1920 , Sean P Morris (ed) (Brill 2022), pp 207-241. ISBN 978-9004439818Fashion After COVID-19: Virtually the Same but Different , Book Chapter in Global Pandemic, Technology and Business: Comparative Explorations of COVID-19 and the Law , Luo Li et al (eds), (Routledge 2021), pp 45-68. ISBN 978-1032010281Geographies of Taste, Fashion, Tradition and Place, Book Chapter in Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property , Gustavo Ghidini et al (eds) (Edward Elgar 2017). ISBN: 9781786438980
“Looks Familiar: Fashion, Design and Diverse Identities in the Digital.” Book Chapter in Diversity in Intellectual Property: Identities, Interests and Intersections , Calboli I and Ragavan S (eds) (Cambridge UP 2014). ISBN 9781107588479
“The Directive Proposal on Criminal Sanctions.” Book Chapter in Criminal Enforcement: A Handbook of Contemporary Research , Geiger C (ed), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1849801461
“Community Rights to Culture: The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.” Book Chapter in Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples , Allen S & Xanthaki A (eds), Hart Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-1841138787
“Future Developments.” Book Chapter in Modern Law of Patents, Roughton A et al (eds), 2nd ed, LexisNexis, 2010.
“Access to Medicines and the Right to (Cultural) Life.” Book Chapter in The Right to Life and the Value of Life , York J (ed), Routledge, 2010, ISBN 978-0754677611
“The Lay of the Land: The Geography of Traditional Cultural Expression.” Book Chapter in Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment , Graber C & Burri-Nenova M (eds), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008, ISBN 9781847209214
“Patent Publics, Patent Cultures.” Book Chapter in Patenting Lives: Life Patents, Culture and Development , Gibson J (ed), Routledge, 2008, ISBN 07546871046
“Traditional Knowledge and the Public Domain.” Book Chapter in Intellectual Property: The Many Faces of the Public Domain , MacQueen H & Waelde C (eds), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007, ISBN 9781845428747
“Knowledge and Other Values: Traditional Knowledge and the Limitations of Intellectual Property.” Book Chapter in Emerging Issues in Intellectual Property: Trade, Technology and Market Freedom Essays in Honour of Herchel Smith , Westkamp G (ed), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007, ISBN 1845427750
“Communities Beyond Place.” Book Chapter in Sustainability and Communities of Place , Maida C (ed), Bergahn Books, 2007, ISBN 1845450167
“Open Access, Open Source, and Free Software: Is There a Copy Left?” Book Chapter in New Directions in Copyright IV , Macmillan F (ed), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007, ISBN 1845422635
“A Right to My Public: Human Right, Copyright, or Privacy?” Book Chapter in New Directions in Copyright III , Macmillan F (ed), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1845422627
“Community and the Exhaustion of Culture: Creative Territories in Traditional Cultural Expressions.” Book Chapter in New Directions in Copyright III , Macmillan F (ed), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1845422627
“Freedoms and Knowledge, Access and Silence: Traditional Knowledge and Freedom of Speech.” Book Chapter in New Directions in Copyright II , Macmillan F (ed), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1845422615
“Community in Resources, Traditional in Knowledge.” Book Chapter in Returning (to) Communities: Theory, Culture and Political Practice of the Communal , Herbechter S & Higgins M (eds), Rodopi, 2006, ISBN 9042018984
“Open to Question: The Open Congress Event and Its Users.” Book Chapter in Media Mutandis: A NODE London Reader, Surveying Art, Technologies and Politics , Francis MA et al (ed), NODE/Arts Council, 2006, ISBN 0955243505
“Community Resources: Intellectual Property Systems, Traditional Knowledge, and the Global Legal Authority of Local Community.” Book Chapter in Managing the Commons: Indigenous Rights, Economic Development and Identity, Merino L & Robson J (eds), Instituto de Ecologia (INE), 2005, ISBN 9688177377.
