People
Dr Brian Leung
Lecturer in Law and Practice
School/Department: Leicester Law School
Email: [email protected]
Profile
Research
Brian's REF-quality research outputs include his Routledge monograph on copyright law and internet memes, his Edward Elgar book chapter on AI and GDPR, and his peer-reviewed articles in renowned journals including the Journal of World Intellectual Property, the European Intellectual Property Review, and the Journal of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law.
Publications
Leung B, 'When AI Wreaks Havoc across the Equator: A Right to Object by the Global South?: A Thought Experiment on Ways to Bridge the IP Gap between Developed and Developing Nations through the Notion of the Public Interest' in Guido Westkamp and Noam Shemtov (eds), Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: Between Participation and Objection (Edward Elgar 2026).
Leung B, Internet Memes and Copyright Law: Diving into the Meme Pool (Routledge 2025).
Leung B, 'Internet Meme Culture and the Digital Single Market Directive: Implications of EU Copyright Reforms' (2024) 46(2) European Intellectual Property Review 78–88.
Leung B, 'Facilitating the Memetic Remix Discourse by Viewing Joint Authorship Flexibly?' (2024) 27(1) Journal of World Intellectual Property 463–487.
Leung B, 'Revisiting Copyright: Is There a Way to Tackle Selective Enforcement and Non-Contextual Algorithmic Takedowns?' (2024) 34(1) Information & Communications Technology Law 17–29.
Supervision
Teaching
Press and media
- Copyright Law
Conferences
“Tackling the Dark side of AI: The Deep Fakes” at the University of Swansea (2025)
“Transcending Realms: when (Intangible) Intellectual Property Law crosses into (Tangible) Property Law”, at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference at Portsmouth University (2024)
“User-Generated Rights and its clash with the EU Digital Singal Markert Directive, article 17” at the European IP Innovation Society at the University of Alicante University (2023).
“Reconciling with the notion of joint authorship” at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference at Ulster University (2023).
“Arts Culture & Heritage: Relationship with Property & Culture“ at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference at York University (2022).
“Re-imagining the idea/expression Dichotomy” at the Legal Research Symposium at Queen Mary University of London (2022).
“Licencing dilemma though the lens of Cultural Institutions” at the Law and Humanities Research Symposium at the Open University, Milton Keynes (2022).
“Graphic Justice: Memetic Comics and Copyright” Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference at Cardiff University (2021).
Qualifications
LLB (Hons) (University of Birmingham)
LLM in IP Law (University College London, UCL)
MSc in Law Business and Management (University of Law)
PhD in Commercial Law (Queen Mary University of London)
Solicitor (Eng & Wales), AFHEA