Biography

Research

Favourites

• Stockton-Brown, M., 2022. Out-of-Commerce How the Existing Copyright Practices in Film Archives Impact on Widening Public Access to Cultural Heritage. Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law, 13 (1), 3-19.
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• Stockton-Brown, M., 2021. Out-of-commerce Copyright Works in EU Film Archives: A Solution? Journal of Film Preservation, 105, 29-37.
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• Stockton-Brown, M. and Tatum, A., 2021. FrankenZine: Voice, Copyright, and Women Authors.
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• Beloved, 2021. Film. https://vimeo.com/563605293.
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• Stockton-Brown, M., 2020. “Representing the Modified Body”. The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication, 3 Volume Set. Wiley-Blackwell.
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• Stockton-Brown, M., 2019. “The Oral Contraceptive Pill”. A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects. Cambridge University Press.
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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDGs:

Journal Articles

• Stockton-Brown, M., 2023. Inking Cultures: Authorship, AI-Generated Art and Copyright Law in Tattooing. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 36 (5), 2037-2065.
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• Stockton-Brown, M., 2023. Ghosts and Punks: The Aesthetics of Copyright Law in Graphic Novels and Comics. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 36 (2), 509-527.
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• Stockton-Brown, M., 2022. TO LEAVE A WHISPER OF MYSELF IN THE WORLD: A ZINESTER TESTIMONY. ZINES, 4, 51-58.
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• Stockton-Brown, M., 2022. Out-of-Commerce How the Existing Copyright Practices in Film Archives Impact on Widening Public Access to Cultural Heritage. Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law, 13 (1), 3-19.
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• Stockton-Brown, M., 2021. Out-of-commerce Copyright Works in EU Film Archives: A Solution? Journal of Film Preservation, 105, 29-37.
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• Stockton-Brown, M., 2020. “Exploring Article 8 of the Copyright Directive: Hope for Cultural Heritage". Annali italiani del diritto d'autore, della cultura e dello spettacolo (AIDA Italian Annals of Copyright XXVIII).
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Books

• Stockton-Brown, M. and Tatum, A., 2021. Finding the Lost Films: Out-of-Commerce Works in the Archive.
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Chapters

• Stockton-Brown, M., 2022. Padlet poetry: student poetry and art reflections as critical legal learning. In: Betts, T. and Oprandi, P., eds. 100 Ideas for Active Learning. Open Press at University of Sussex.
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• Stockton-Brown, M., 2022. Group crosswords as formative assessment tasks. 100 Ideas for Active Learning. Open Press at University of Sussex.
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• Stockton-Brown, M., 2020. “Representing the Modified Body”. The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication, 3 Volume Set. Wiley-Blackwell.
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• Stockton-Brown, M., 2019. “Moral Copyright Law: An Opportunity to Review the Current Law after Brexit”. Brexit: A Way Forward. Vernon Press.
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• Stockton-Brown, M., 2019. “The Oral Contraceptive Pill”. A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects. Cambridge University Press.
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Internet Publications

• Szopa, K., Fletcher, J. and Stockton-Brown, M., 2022. ‘Moving Towards an Agendered Perpetrator, Time For Change to the Sexual Offences Act 2003’. Stars Dorset Blog. Available from: http://www.starsdorset.org/Blog/sexual-offences-act-2003.
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• Stockton-Brown, M., 2020. “Exploring Article 8 of the Copyright Directive: Hope for Cultural Heritage" CIPPM Working Paper No. 04-2020, 2020. CIPPM.
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Theses

• Stockton-Brown, M., 2020. Out-of-commerce, out of mind: widening public access to out-of-commerce copyright works in film archives through the DSM Directive. PhD Thesis. Bournemouth University, Faculty of Media and Communication.
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Films

• Skin Artificial Authorship in Tattooing Melanie Stockton Brown, 2023. Film.
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• Beloved, 2021. Film. https://vimeo.com/563605293.
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Artefacts

• Stockton-Brown, M., 2022. "Pushing Back: FIAF & Copyright" Zine.
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• Stockton-Brown, M., 2021. Crop-Circles: A Copyright Regime of Practices within Film Archives.
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• Stockton-Brown, M. and Tatum, A., 2021. FrankenZine: Voice, Copyright, and Women Authors.
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PhD Students

• Elizabeth Bailey, (In progress)

Grants

• Tattooing in the Archive (Socio-Legal Studies Association, 06 Oct 2023). Awarded
• Popular Feminism and Tattoo Expression (Women's Academic Network, 21 May 2023). In Progress
• CopyTatts: Copyright within Tattooing Culture (Bournemouth University ACORN Large Grant, 01 Feb 2022). In Progress
• Pushing Back: copyright law and film archives (Socio-Legal Studies Association, 14 Jan 2022). In Progress
• “Out-of-Commerce: Out-of-Mind”: Finding the Lost Films" (ACORN Funding, Bournemouth University, 01 Jun 2021). Completed
• Out-of-Commerce Works (Seedcorn Funding, Department of Humanities and Law, Bournemouth University, 01 Jun 2021). Completed
• Beloved (Bournemouth University, 18 May 2021). Completed
• FrankenZine: Voice, Copyright, and Women Authors (CIPPM, Bournemouth University, 18 May 2021). Completed
• Emerging Scholar Award (Eleventh International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, 02 Jul 2018). Completed
• PhD Studentship (Bournemouth University, 18 Sep 2017). Completed

External Responsibilities

• Sunderland University, External Examiner (2023-2027)

Journal Reviewing/Refereeing

• International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Anonymous peer review, 01 Jul 2022

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

• Active Learning Network CPD Series 2023 Presentation (10 Oct 2023)
• Zine exhibited as part of an international art exhibit

Qualifications

• Programme Leadership Certificate in Programme Leadership Certificate (Bournemouth University, 2023)
• PhD in Copyright Law and Cultural Heritage (Bournemouth University, 2021)
• LLM in Human Rights Law (University of Sunderland, 2015)
• LLB (Hons) in Criminal Law (Aberystwyth University, 2014)

Honours

• "You're Brilliant" Teaching Award (Bournemouth University, 2023)
• Beloved film chosen as part of the Frankenstein Factory Fest film festival, 2023. (2023)
• Beloved film selected and screened at the Frankenstein Factory Film Festival 2023 (Frankenstein Factory Film Festival, 2023)
• Doctoral College Outstanding Contribution Award (Bournemouth University, 2023)
• Nominated for a VC BU Community Award (2023)
• Senior Fellow (HEA, 2023)
• Skin (2023) film chosen and exhibited online film festival (Lift-Off Sessions May 2023, 2023)
• “You’re Brilliant” Teaching Award (2022)
• Beloved film selected and shown at the Grito! queer horror film festival in Brazil (2021)
• Best Newcomer for our short-film Beloved (English Riveria Film Festival, 2021)
• Film Beloved was chosen as part of the online Lift-Off Online Sessions film festival. (2021)
• My zine, FrankenZine, about Mary Shelley, women authors & copyright, has been selected as part of the permanent queer & feminist zine library at an international art Ad Minoliti exhibit at the BALTIC in Gateshead (2021)

Networks

• IP Out
• The Public Engagement Network of the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement
• Europeana Network Association
• Women in IP
• IP Inclusive Network
• European Policy for Intellectual Property Association
• The Active Learning Network
• Socio-Legal Studies Association