Dr Hayleigh Bosher is a Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at Brunel University London and author of Copyright in the Music Industry (Edward Elgar 2021). Hayleigh runs the IP Pro Bono Service at Brunel Law School and is a legal consultant specialising in media, entertainment and intellectual property law.
She is also Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Intellectual Property, Policy and Management. She holds a PhD in Copyright Law from Bournemouth University, under the Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship Award. She writes for the specialist IP blog The IPKat and is founder of the World IP Women (WIPW) network.
Hayleigh's main research areas include copyright enforcement and infringement in the entertainment industries, particularly music, film and social media.
Experience
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2018–presentSenior lecturer, Brunel University London
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2017–2018Lecturer , University of the Arts London
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2017–2018Senior lecturer, Coventry University
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2016–2017Lecturer, Breda University
Education
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2017Bournemouth University , PhD Law
Publications
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2018An analysis of the fundamental tensions between copyright and social media: The legal implications of sharing images on Instagram, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology
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2017The UK IPO’s decision in The Willow Tea Rooms trade mark dispute, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice
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2016Swings and roundabouts: The impact of legal drafting on the language and understanding of copyright law and the need for educational materials, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology
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