Author: Elsa Mitsoglou, J.D Candidate, Class of 2014, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Dr. Elena Cooper has been the Orton Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge since 2009. She is also a researcher at the Faculty of Law on the “Of Authorship and Originality” project, funded by Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA). Dr. Cooper received a law degree from the London School of Economics and a master’s degree in Intellectual Property Law from King’s College London. She also has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where her studies focused on the relationship between art and law in the history of photographic copyright. Her PhD thesis was awarded a Yorke Prize.
On September 24, 2012, Dr. Cooper was invited to present at Cardozo’s Intellectual Property and Information Law Speaker Series. The presentation was based on her latest article, Copyright: A Nineteenth Century Publicity Right?, which explores the history of photographic copyright. The article provides an alternative history of publicity rights law in England. Dr. Cooper explains that although England does not have a general law of privacy or publicity, publicity rights were protected through photographic copyright law in the 1860s.
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