Mr Jonathan Griffiths, BA (Oxon) MA, Senior Lecturer
Solicitor
Jonathan Griffiths specialises in intellectual property law (particularly copyright law) and information law. He is a solicitor and teaches intellectual property law, international and comparative copyright law and the law of torts.
He has published widely on comparative copyright law and on the relationship between intellectual property and human rights. With colleagues at the MPI for Intellectual Property & Competition Law, and other European copyright scholars, he was involved in directing a joint research project that culminated in Declaration on a Balanced Interpretation of the Three-Step Test in Copyright Law
He has spoken on the Declaration at the University of Melbourne (November 2008), New York University (May 2009) and, most recently, in London at the BLACA/IPI Conference on “The Three-Step Test in Copyright Law” (October 2009). Jonathan Griffiths is a member of the advisory board of the Nottingham Law Journal, of the editorial boards of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice and The journal of Media Law and is an international contributing editor of the Media and Arts Law Review. He was a senior fellow at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne in 2008.
Research interests
Jonathan Griffiths is on research leave during the academic year 2009-10. He is working on projects on (1) the nature of the “work” in copyright law and (2) the relationship between trade mark law and freedom of speech.
In March 2010, he will speak on the Limitations & Exceptions in European Copyright Law at the “Commons, Users, Service Providers”” Conference at the Leibniz University, Hannover.
Key publications
- The ‘‘Three-Step Test’’ in European Copyright Law: Problems and Solutions [2009] IPQ 428
- ‘Is there a Right to an Immoral Mark?’ in Intellectual Property & Human Rights, ed P Torremans (Kluwer, 2008)
- 'Re-capturing Liberated Information - A Comparative Study of the Relationship between Freedom of Information Legislation and Private Law Restraints on Disclosure' in P Torremans (ed) Intellectual Property & Human Rights (Kluwer, 2008)
- Blackstone's Guide to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (with John Wadham and Kelly Harris), 3rd ed (Oxford University Press, 2007)
- ‘Comparative Advertising: The Conflicting Claims of Copyright, Unfair Competition and Human Rights’ in New Directions in Copyright Law, ed F Macmillan, Vol 5 (Edward Elgar, 2007)
- 'Misattribution and Misrepresentation - The Claim for Reverse Passing Off as "Paternity" Right' [2006] Intellectual Property Quarterly 34
- Copyright and Free Speech: International and Comparative Perspectives (ed with U Suthersanen) (OUP, Oxford, 2005)
- 'The United Kingdom's integrity right - Not Such a "Timid Thing"' in Copyright and Free Speech: International and Comparative Perspectives (ed with U Suthersanen) (OUP, Oxford, 2005)
- 'Simplifying Copyright Law' in A Hudson (ed), New Perspectives on Property Law, Obligations and Restitution (Cavendish, London, 2004) 305
- 'Copyright law after Ashdown - Time to Deal Fairly with the Public' [2002] Intellectual Property Quarterly 240
Postgraduate supervision
Jonathan Griffiths welcomes proposals for postgraduate supervision in the area of information law, particularly copyright and related rights, freedom of expression and access to information.
