Professor Tanya Aplin
Contact details
Email: tanya.aplin@kcl.ac.uk
Room: L405
Biography
Professor Aplin specialises in the area of Intellectual Property Law, having joined the School of Law in September 2002 as a Lecturer. She was previously a Lecturer in Law at Robinson College, Cambridge (2000-2002), and a Research Fellow at Murdoch University (1997-1999). Professor Aplin graduated from Murdoch University, Western Australia with LLB and BA degrees (1994) and from the University of Oxford with a BCL (1997) and D Phil (2002). In 2006 she was a visiting scholar at Boalt School of Law, UCB and in Autumn 2009 she was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the School of Law, University of New South Wales. Professor Aplin is a visiting lecturer on law programmes offered by the IP Academy Singapore, Pepperdine University and Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. She is Head of Education in the School of Law and also Director of the King’s Postgraduate Diploma/MA in UK, EU and US Copyright Law.
Research
Professor Aplin's research lies in the field of intellectual property law. She has written extensively on how digital technologies are regulated by copyright law at an international level. Her most recent work concerns the protection of trade secrets and confidential information in the UK, with a particular emphasis on the way in which privacy-based decisions are affecting the shape of the action as a whole (see Gurry on Confidence: The Protection of Confidential Information OUP, forthcoming 2012). She is currently working on three research projects: the dissonance between copyright law and the practices of cultural consumers; the 'Europeanization' of copyright law; and the protection of trade secrets within Article 1 Protocol 1 of ECHR.
Professor Aplin is the co-author of two leading Intellectual Property Law textbooks: ‘Intellectual Property Law: Text, Cases, and Materials’, (OUP, 2009) and ‘Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights’, (Sweet & Maxwell, 2010).
Publications
Confidentiality and privacy
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Aplin, Bently, Johnson & Malynicz, Gurry on Confidence: The Protection of Confidential Information (OUP, forthcoming Spring 2012)
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'Recent developments in commercial confidentiality' (2010) Media and Arts Law Review pp. 1-8
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‘A right of privacy for corporations?’ (in Torremans, P (ed), Intellectual Property & Human Rights (Kluwer, 2008), pp. 475-505
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‘The Future Of Breach Of Confidence And The Protection Of Privacy’ (2007) 7(2) Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal pp. 137-173
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‘Commercial Confidences After The Human Rights Act’ (2007) 10 European Intellectual Property Review pp. 411-419
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‘The Relationship Between Breach Of Confidence And The Tort Of Misuse Of Private Information’ (2007) 18(2) King’s Law Journal pp. 329-336
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‘The Development Of The Action For Breach Of Confidence In A Post-HRA Era’ (2007) Intellectual Property Quarterly pp. 19-59
Intellectual property law and new technologies'
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'"Reproduction" and "Communication to the Public" Rights in EU Copyright Law: FAPL v QC Leisure' (2011) 22 King's Law Journal pp. 209-219.
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'United Kingdom' in B Lindner and T Shapiro (eds), Copyright in the Information Society: A Guide to National Implementation of the EU Directive, (Edward Elgar, 2011), ch. 27
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"Commentary on 'Measuring Text Re-use in Journalism'", in L Bently, J Davis & J Ginsburg (eds), Copyright and Privacy: An interdisciplinary Critique, (CUP, 2010), pp. 260-268.
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‘A global digital register for the preservation and access to cultural heritage: problems, challenges and possibilities’ in Derclaye, E (ed), Copyright and Cultural Heritage: Preservation and Access to Works in a Digital World (Edward Elgar, 2010)
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Subject matter’ in Derclaye, E (ed), Research Handbook on the Future of EU Copyright Law (Edward Elgar, 2009), pp. 94-135
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‘Patenting of computer programs: a glimmer of convergence’ (2008) 9 EIPR pp. 379-382
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Encyclopaedia of IT Law, chapter on Intellectual Property (Sweet & Maxwell, 2008)
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Copyright law in the digital society: the challenges of multimedia (Hart: 2005)
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‘The ECJ elucidates the database right’ (2005) Intellectual Property Quarterly pp. 204-221
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‘The EU Database Directive: Taking Stock’ in New Directions in Copyright, Volume 2, September 2005, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 99-126
Intellectual property law textbooks
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Cornish, Llewelyn and Aplin, Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights 7th ed (Sweet & Maxwell, 2010)
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T Aplin and J Davis, Intellectual Property Law: Text, Cases and Materials (OUP: Oxford, 2009)
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S Hedley and T Aplin (eds), Statutes on IT and E-Commerce 4th ed (OUP: Oxford, 2008)
PhD students & topics
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Marta Iljadica, PhD: "Graffiti Rules: Parallel Norms of Copyright in Public Space".
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Jacqueline Nwozo, PhD: ''The corporate entity and privacy protection: To what extent should English Law be developed to accommodate the privacy interests of corporations?
Teaching
Undergraduate
Copyright & Designs
Patents & Breach of Confidence
Trade Marks & Passing Off
Elements of the Law of Contract
Graduate
International & Comparative Law of Copyright & Related Rights
Technology & Intellectual Property Law
Legal Regulation of the Music Industries