Tanya Aplin

Global Distinguished Professor
Notre Dame London Law Programme

Home Affiliation: Professor of Intellectual Property Law, King's College, London

Email: Taplin@nd.edu

Professor Aplin has published extensively on how copyright law, whether at international, European or UK level, regulates digital technologies, e.g. see Copyright Law in the Digital Society (Hart: 2005) and the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Digital Technologies (Elgar: 2020). Her co-authored monograph (with Prof. Bently) argues that the international copyright framework requires a broader approach to exceptions: Global Mandatory Fair Use: The Nature and Scope of the Right to Quote Copyright Works (CUP, 2020).

Professor Aplin’s research also focuses on the protection of trade secrets and confidential information in the UK, Commonwealth and the EU. She has co-authored one of the leading texts in this field (see Gurry on Confidence: The Protection of Confidential Information OUP, 2012) and has published extensively on the relevance of trade secrets to the data economy.

Professor Aplin is co-author of two leading Intellectual Property Law textbooks: Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights 10th ed and Intellectual Property Law (OUP, 2021). 

Her ongoing research interests include trade secret policy and protection; AI and intellectual property law; the regulation of data sharing; and reform of UK copyright law and she is the Editor for the Hart Series on Information Law and Regulation.