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Georgia Jenkins

Georgia

PhD Student

Email: g.jenkins@qmul.ac.uk

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Thesis

The doctrine of exhaustion, a guiding principle to reconcile digital copyright interests in the EU

Supervisors

Professor Guido Westkamp and Dr Gail Evans

Summary of research

Ownership is often heralded as a relic of the past, as streaming services allow consumers instant consumption of digital content. However, today accessing digital content is paradoxically difficult: Users may have access to content at any time or location and in most formats, but this is subject to licensing agreements with onerous terms and conditions. This thesis addresses the tension between digital access and copyright enforcement by constructing a new rule of exhaustion for digital content in the EU. Ultimately, this analysis will project the discussion of digital content access rights into a more realistic framework. 

Biography

Georgia completed for LLB at the University of Western Australia in 2016 and obtained her LLM in Intellectual Property Law with Distinction at Queen Mary University of London in 2017 (Awarded the IP Law prize and Principal's Prize). After completing the Pan-European Seal Internship at the European Union Intellectual Property Office, Georgia began her PhD at Queen Mary, funded by the Herchel Smith Scholarship. Alongside her research she is a teaching associate for IP modules including licensing IP, trade mark law and digital IP.  Georgia co-convened the QMIPRI academic seminar webinar series with Professor Duncan Matthews in 2020/21 and is the founding member of the Queen Mary PhD IP Reading Group.

Publications

  • ‘Love is in the air for conscious copiers and online platforms in Australia’ Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (November 2020).
  • ‘An extended doctrine of implied consent, a digital mediator?’ International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (March 2021).
  • ‘How helpful is initial interest confusion in finding double identity trade mark infringement in online marketplaces?’ European Intellectual Property Review (April 2021).
  • ‘Implied consent, a natural digital mediator of copyright interests’, Kluwer Copyright Blog (May 2021).
  • ‘Thaler strikes again, down under: Artificial intelligence systems as inventors not ruled out (yet)’ Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (December 2021).

 

Research

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