Professor Jonathan Griffiths, BA (Oxon) MAProfessor of Intellectual Property LawEmail: j.griffiths@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8121Room Number: Mile EndProfileTeachingResearchPublicationsSupervisionPublic EngagementProfileJonathan Griffiths is Professor of Intellectual Property Law. His main research interests are in copyright law (particularly United Kingdom, European and comparative copyright law) and in the relationship between intellectual property law and fundamental rights. He has written widely in both of these areas. With Professor Tuomas Mylly, he edited Global Intellectual Property Protection and New Constitutionalism: Hedging Exclusive Rights (OUP:2021). His current work is focused on (i) the concept of property in intellectual property law (particularly in copyright and unregistered trade mark law) and (ii) the relationship between freedom of expression and trade mark law. He is the editor of the “United Kingdom” chapter of the leading international treatise on "International Copyright Law & Practice" (ed B Ong) and is a member of the editorial/advisory boards of the Journal of Media Law, the Media & Arts Law Review and the Nottingham Law Journal. He is interested in copyright policy and reform and has been consulted on copyright policy by a number of public bodies. He is a member of the European Copyright Society, a group of scholars founded with the aim of creating a platform for critical and independent scholarly thinking on European copyright law. The Society has published several widely-read policy proposals.Undergraduate Teaching LAW6455 Intellectual Property Law – Copyright & Related Rights LAW6456 Intellectual Property Law – Industrial Property Postgraduate Teaching CCLP075 European Copyright Law ResearchHis current work focuses on (1) historical shifts in the nature of the concept of property in intellectual property law –particularly in relation to copyright and unregistered trade mark law and (2) the relationship between freedom of expression and trade mark registration. PublicationsMany of Jonathan Griffiths' publications are available on SSRN. “Comment of the European Copyright Society Addressing Selected Aspects of the Implementation of Articles 3-7 of Directive 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market”, [2023] GRUR International 22-36 (with T Synodinou & R Xalabarder) Global Intellectual Property Protection and the New Constitutionalism: Hedging Exclusive Rights, ed with T Mylly, Oxford University Press, 2021 “European Copyright Law & the Charter of Fundamental Rights – Advocate General Szpunar’s Opinion in (C-469/17) Funke Medien, (C-476/17 Pelham GmbH and (C-516/17) Spiegel Online” [2019] ERA Forum 1-16 “Sound sampling – a permitted use under EU copyright law? Opinion of the European copyright Society in relation to the pending reference before the CJEU in Case C-476/17, Pelham GmbH v Hütter” [2019] International Review of Intellectual Property & Competition Law 467-490 “Universalism, pluralism or isolationism? – the relationship between authors’ rights and creators’ human rights” in T Synodinou (ed) Pluralism or universalism in international copyright law? (Wolters Kluwer, 2019) 619-640 “Taking power tools to the acquis - The Court of Justice, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and EU copyright law” in C Geiger (ed) Intellectual Property & the Judiciary (Edward Elgar, 2018) “The tobacco industry’s challenge to the United Kingdom’s standardised packaging legislation – global lessons for tobacco control policy?” in Vol 17(2) (2017) Special Issue on Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products, Queensland University of Technology Law Review 66-82 ‘Fair dealing after Deckmyn – the United Kingdom’s defence for caricature, parody & pastiche’ in M Richardson & S Ricketson, Research Handbook on Intellectual Property in Media and Entertainment (Edward Elgar, 2017) 64-101 ‘Moral Right from a Copyright Perspective’ in Moral Rights in the 21st Century in F Brison et al (eds), (Larcier, 2015) Proposals from Berlin & Paris – intermediary liability in European copyright law’, [2016] Journal of IP, IT and eCommerce (JIPITEC) 70 ‘Exhaustion and the alteration of copyright works in EU copyright law – (C-419/13) Art & Allposters International BV v Stichting Pictoright’ [2016] ERA Forum 1 ‘“On the back of a cigarette packet” – standardised packaging legislation and the tobacco industry’s fundamental right to (intellectual) property’ [2015] Intellectual Property Quarterly 343 SupervisionJonathan Griffiths welcomes proposals for supervision in his areas of research interest; particularly on copyright law, on the relationship between intellectual property rights and constitutional norms or fundamental rights and on law and creative culture more generally.Public EngagementRelated newsProfessor Jonathan Griffiths co-authors paper on Copyright in the Digital Single Market 26 January 2023 Professor Jonathan Griffiths is new Head of the Department of Law from September 2022 20 September 2022 Professor Griffiths speaks on online event on Intellectual Property 4 May 2020 Prof. Jonathan Griffiths gives paper on EU copyright law at Luxembourg conference 12 November 2019 Jonathan Griffiths to speak at IP conference in Paris 12 June 2019 Professor Jonathan Griffiths contributes to the Opinion of the European Copyright Society on sampling from pre-existing records 18 March 2019 European Copyright Society publishes two Opinions on important questions that have been referred to the CJEU 9 March 2018 Professor Jonathan Griffiths spoke on "Copyright and Cultural Diversity" at REDA 2017 22 November 2017 Jonathan Griffiths in to speak on 'Copyright and Freedom of Speech' at UCL 26 January 2017 Jonathan Griffiths to give a talk on 'Copyright Law without the Court of Justice?' at Bournemouth University 2 November 2016 Jonathan Griffiths to give a talk on 'Copyright Law without the Court of Justice?' at Bournemouth University 2 November 2016 Jonathan Griffiths presents at European Copyright Society (ECS) event in Barcelona 31 May 2016 Jonathan Griffiths pens blog on Advocate General Kokott's rejection of challenges to the Tobacco Products Directive 15 January 2016 Standardised packaging and the right of intellectual property 10 December 2015 Jonathan Griffiths featured on a panel on “Copyright Reform: the Implications One Year On” 19 November 2015 The European Copyright Society issues position paper on the Advocate’s General Opinion 23 September 2015 Jonathan Griffiths to speak at 'Copyright Exceptions and Limitations within the Scope of the Review of the EU Copyright Framework' in Latvia 25 March 2015 Jonathan Griffiths pens letter for The Law Society Gazette on standardised packaging for tobacco products 24 February 2015 Jonathan Griffiths contributes to the drafting of a Recommendation on reform of EU Trade Mark Law 2 October 2014 Jonathan Griffiths to speak at Annual Meeting of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property 20 September 2014 Jonathan Griffiths to speak at ALAI Congress in Brussels 9 September 2014 Jonathan Griffiths spoke on packaging legislation for tobacco products in Finland 10 June 2014 Jonathan Griffiths to speak at Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre series 3 February 2014 Jonathan Griffiths spoke at a conference on 'Making Cultural Heritage Mobile' 9 December 2013 Jonathan Griffiths's co-edited book 'Concepts of Property in Intellectual Property Law' is published 28 October 2013 Meet a QM Law academic in Tokyo, 25 October 2013 7 October 2013 Seminar - Recent Developments in Japanese Copyright Law - Exceptions and Limitations 21 March 2013 Copyright and Digital Media - the view from Japan 20 March 2013 Jonathan Griffiths to speak at 'The Interface of Public and Private Law Concepts of Property' Symposium at KCL 9 May 2012 Jonathan Griffiths to speak at Academy of European Law's Annual Conference on European Copyright Law 9 May 2012