Profile
Thesis title
The (Impossible) Journey of Photography: How Copyright Affects the Meaning-Making in the Process of Circulation
Supervisors
Summary of research
Ekiz’s research focuses on copyright law’s impact on the recontextualisation of photography. Drawing on the contextual studies on photography, Ekiz looks forward to gather and analyse qualitative data regarding the law’s impact on three professions’ engagement with photography: art historians, curators, and photography editors.
Biography
Ekiz is a lawyer from Turkey. He graduated with distinction from Queen Mary’s Intellectual Property Law LLM Program. Ekiz also publishes and exhibits his works of photography and photo-collages. He was awarded a Queen Mary Research Studentship (2019-2022), and previously was the recipient of the BLACA/Stationers Bursary Award (2017).
Ekiz is one of the Teaching Associates for the Jurisprudence module in the 2020/21 education year.
Ekiz undertook the role of the Teaching Associate in the 2019/20 education year for the following modules: The Law of Film, Intellectual Property and Fashion: Art and Culture, Intellectual Property and Fashion: Law and Business, Music Industry Contracts.
Ekiz is one of the assistant editors of Queen Mary Law Journal.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
- ‘Copyright and Public Appearance: A Review of the Relationship Between Parody and Moral Rights in the UK’ (2020) 3 Intellectual Property Quarterly 204
- ‘Documenting the Copyright Sphere: Can Festivals Solve the Problem of Copyright Clearance for Documentaries?’ (2019) 9(4) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property 452
- ‘But is it Fixed? Copyright and Conceptual Art: A Comparative Analysis of Fixation Criterion in the US and the UK’ (2019) 10 Queen Mary Law Journal 115
- ‘My Film in Your Pocket: An Analysis of User Interactions with Films and Copyright Law’ (2019) 9(2) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property 196
- ‘Borrowed Sounds: Sampling After Pelham’ (2019) 8(32) Banka ve Finans Hukuku Dergisi, Prof. Dr. Ali Necip Ortan’a Armağan 2477
Other/online publications
- ‘Defying Authority: Interview with Şeyda Özdamar’ (EEP Berlin, 2020), available at <https://eepberlin.org/blogs/news/defying-authority-interview-with-seyda-ozdamar>
- ‘Autonomous Art Machines: An Interview with Bager Akbay’ (Art/Law Network, 2019), available at <https://artlawnetwork.org/interview-with-bager-akbay/>
- ‘Layers of Creativity: An Interview with Graham Rawle’ (Art/Law Network, 2019), available at <https://artlawnetwork.org/interview-with-graham-rawle/>
- ‘An Interview with Başak Tuna’ (Art/Law Network, 2019), available at <https://artlawnetwork.org/basak-tuna/>
- ‘An Interview with Antonio Roberts’ (Art/Law Network, 2018), available at <https://artlawnetwork.org/antonio-roberts/>
- ‘Copyright Guide for Artists’ (Artists’ Union England, 2018), available at <https://www.artistsunionengland.org.uk/copyright-advice-now-available-for-aue- members/>