Ronan Deazley is a British legal scholar, academic and author. He took his LLB (1996) and PhD (2000) from

Queen's University Belfast , mottoeng = For so much, what shall we give back? , top_free_label = , top_free = , top_free_label1 = , top_free1 = , top_free_label2 = , top_free2 = , established = , closed = , type = Public research university , parent = ...

. His current specialism and research interests are in the theory of

copyright A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, education ...

law (and its history). He is a member of the Oral History Society and the Regional Coordinator for Northern Ireland. He is on the editorial board of the European Journal of Law and Technology (EJLT). He became a faculty member at the

University of Glasgow School of Law The School of Law at the University of Glasgow provides undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Law, and awards the degrees of Bachelor of Laws (''Legum Baccalaureus'', LLB), Master of Laws (''Iuris Vtriusque Magistrum'', LLM), LLM by Researc ...

as a ''Professor of Copyright Law'' in August 2009, having previously taught at the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

and the

University of Durham Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charte ...

. In September 2015 he returned to his alma mater, Queen's University Belfast, to take up a chair in copyright law. In 2015, and alongside Bartolomeo Meletti, Ronan Deazley received the

Arts and Humanities Research Council The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), formerly Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), is a British research council, established in 1998, supporting research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities. History The Arts an ...

s (AHRC) Innovation Award for Research in Film. This was for their work 'The Adventure of the Girl with the Light Blue Hair' the first episode in 'The Game is On' webseries.

Bibliography

*''On the Origin of the Right to Copy: Charting the Movement of Copyright Law in Eighteenth Century Britain (1695-1775)'' (Hart Publishing, 2004) *''Re-Thinking Copyright: History, Theory, Language'' (Edward Elgar, 2006 and 2008)

References

External links

Faculty page at Glasgow University Law School

'The Game is On' United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Blog Page
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