Dr James Griffin
Extension: 3194
Telephone: 01392 263194
Lecturer
Dr James GH Griffin's main area of research relates to the impact of Intellectual Property Laws upon digital technology. He has published articles on the role of authors in the digital environment, such as The evolution of authorship under technology: implications for copyright law in the IPQ and Copyright in Music in Legal Studies. He is currently a top 5 author in SSRN for micro economics. Current research interests (as of 2012) include copyright and rationality, memes and copyright, communicative theory and copyright, art and the law, and interdisciplinary research into creativity. He is currently carrying out funded research into copyright reform for BILETA, and into the role of the Digital Copyright Exchange for the SLS. Dr Griffin is a member of the BILETA executive, and a co-director of SCuLE, an interdisciplinary research group looking at the inter-relationship of science, culture and the law - details available at http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/law/research/scule (last accessed on 2nd April 2012).
