Dr Hayleigh Bosher is a Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law and Associate Dean at Brunel University London. She is the author of Copyright in the Music Industry (Edward Elgar 2021) and co-host of the Whose Song Is It Anyway? Podcast. Hayleigh runs the IP Pro Bono Service at Brunel Law School and is a legal consultant specialising in media, entertainment and intellectual property law and writes for the specialist IP blog The IPKat.
Hayleigh is also Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Intellectual Property, Policy and Management. She holds a PhD in Copyright Law from Bournemouth University. Her main research area is copyright in the entertainment industries, particularly music, film and social media.
Experience
2018–present
Senior lecturer, Brunel University London
2017–2018
Lecturer , University of the Arts London
2017–2018
Senior lecturer, Coventry University
2016–2017
Lecturer, Breda University
Education
2017
Bournemouth University , PhD Law
Publications
2018
An analysis of the fundamental tensions between copyright and social media: The legal implications of sharing images on Instagram, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology
2017
The UK IPO’s decision in The Willow Tea Rooms trade mark dispute, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice
2016
Swings 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