Copyright and Free Speech

Its contributors include a number of world-renowned experts in both strands of law, including Professor Eric Barendt, Raymond T Nimmer, Ysolde Gendreau, Wendy Gordon and Jeremy Phillips, with a foreword by the Right Honourable Lord r stice Jacob... the book is a substantial collection of papers by authors of distinction on a fascinating subject. The scholarship distilled is impressive and the reader cannot but learn and be fascinated by the topic...It isnot a textbook by any means, but an interesting reflection on how copyright is evolving in the digital world and with new and widening concerns about human rights: both comparatively recent phenomena in thecommon law worldIt has been skilfully edited and well indexed to make it of great value to researchers. It is a book which can be read with interest in its entirety and would be a useful addition to any law library'Robyn Durie, Convergence…the Oxford University Press publication is without doubt the better collection…the Oxford collection provides us with an ultimately richer and more rewarding read, and precisely because the essays and commentaries therein rub against and spark off each other…the editors involved in producing both collections are to be congratulated. Nevertheless, as suggested by the all too brief commentary above, it is Griffiths and Suthersanen to whom the warmestplaudits must go.‘Ronan Deazley (University of Durham), European Intellectual Property Review

Jonathan Griffiths is a qualified solicitor and from 1993 to 2000 he was employed as a lecturer and senior lecturer at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University. He joined the Department of Law at Queen Mary, University of London, in January 2001. His research interests are in the areas of intellectual property (particularly copyright law), and media and information law. Uma Suthersanen is a Reader in Intellectual Property Law & Policy at QueenMary, University of London. She is an Executive Committee Member of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale, Executive Committee Member of the British Literary and Artistic Copyright Association,and a Committee Member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the British Computer Society.