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Journal Articles
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
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.
