Miss Amy Thomas

  • Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Information Law (Law)

Biography

Amy Thomas is a Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Glasgow School of Law / CREATe centre. Amy joined the University of Glasgow as a PhD student in 2017, thereafter working as a Research and Teaching Associate in 2019.

Amy completed her PhD in 2022, having defended her doctoral thesis entitled 'The Copyright User: A Socio-Legal Enquiry'. Her PhD thesis offers an alternative methodological approach to conceptualising the user through contract, using critical discourse analysis.

Amy has a background in law and social sciences, and works as the Managing Editor of the Copyright Evidence Wiki, which curates empirical evidence on how copyright works in society.

Publications

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Number of items: 20.

2023

Thomas, A., Battisti, M. and Kretschmer, M. (2023) Authors’ Earnings in the UK. Policy Brief. Documentation. Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre.

Thomas, A., Battisti, M. and Saenz De Juano Ribes, H. (2023) Indie Authors' Earnings 2023. Documentation. UK Copyright and Creative Economy Research Centre (CREATe), Glasgow. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.8043463).

Thomas, A. (2023) Merit and monetisation: a study of video game user-generated content policies. Internet Policy Review, 12(1), (doi: 10.14763/2023.1.1689)

2022

Thomas, A. (2022) The Breenbergh Deathmatch: how copyright regulates recreations of real spaces in unreal game worlds. [Website]

Thomas, A. (2022) Getting paid to play? Copyright, contract, and the rewards for UGC. [Website]

Thomas, A. (2022) The wrong r/place and the wrong time for copyright and NFTs? [Website]

Thomas, A., Battisti, M. and Kretschmer, M. (2022) UK Authors' Earnings and Contracts 2022: A Survey of 60,000 Writers. Documentation. CREATe Centre, Glasgow.

2021

Thomas, A. (2021) 21 for 2021: User Creativity in Online Platforms – Copyright or Contract? [Website]

Thomas, A. (2021) ‘All he has done is to play the game’: eSports players and copyright. [Website]

2020

Meletti, B., Thomas, A., Kretschmer, M. and Erickson, K. (2020) Text and Data Mining of Copyright Evidence. BEYOND 2020, Online, 30 Nov - 03 Dec 2020.

Thomas, A. (2020) A question of (e)Sports: an answer from copyright. Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 15(12), pp. 960-975. (doi: 10.1093/jiplp/jpaa157)

Thomas, A. (2020) Critical Discourse Analysis of End User Licensing Agreements: An Unorthodox Methodological Approach. ESRC Socio-Legal Methodology Workshop

Thomas, A. (2020) Copyright Evidence Wiki: Using Evidence to Inform Policy. Creative Commons Virtual Summit

Furgal, U. , Kretschmer, M. and Thomas, A. (2020) Memes and Parasites: a discourse analysis of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive. Working Paper. UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre, Glasgow. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4085050).

Thomas, A. and Furgal, U. (2020) Memes and Parasites: Analysing Discourse on the Copyright Directive. Gikii 2020, Online, 30-31 Jul 2020.

2019

Thomas, A. (2019) James Meese, Authors, Users, and Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2018, 240 pp, hb $35.00/£27.00. Modern Law Review, 82(6), pp. 1197-1201. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12454)[Book Review]

Thomas, A. (2019) The Concept of User in End-User Licensing Agreements. CREATe Symposium 2019, Glasgow, UK, 08-10 Oct 2019.

Thomas, A. (2019) EULAs in eSports and Video Game Streaming: Copyright as a New Commercial Imperative for Game Owners. BILETA 34th Annual Conference 2019, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 16-17 Apr 2019.

Thomas, A. (2019) EU Copyright Reform: What you may have missed. [Website]

2018

Thomas, A. (2018) The Concept and Myth of the Digital User in Copyright Law. IP Researchers Europe Conference 2018 (IPRE 2018), Geneva, Switzerland, 29 Jun 2018.

This list was generated on Tue Oct 3 18:33:23 2023 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Book Reviews | Research Reports or Papers | Conference or Workshop Item | Website
Number of items: 20.

Articles

Thomas, A. (2023) Merit and monetisation: a study of video game user-generated content policies. Internet Policy Review, 12(1), (doi: 10.14763/2023.1.1689)

Thomas, A. (2020) A question of (e)Sports: an answer from copyright. Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 15(12), pp. 960-975. (doi: 10.1093/jiplp/jpaa157)

Book Reviews

Thomas, A. (2019) James Meese, Authors, Users, and Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2018, 240 pp, hb $35.00/£27.00. Modern Law Review, 82(6), pp. 1197-1201. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12454)[Book Review]

Research Reports or Papers

Thomas, A., Battisti, M. and Kretschmer, M. (2023) Authors’ Earnings in the UK. Policy Brief. Documentation. Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre.

Thomas, A., Battisti, M. and Saenz De Juano Ribes, H. (2023) Indie Authors' Earnings 2023. Documentation. UK Copyright and Creative Economy Research Centre (CREATe), Glasgow. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.8043463).

Thomas, A., Battisti, M. and Kretschmer, M. (2022) UK Authors' Earnings and Contracts 2022: A Survey of 60,000 Writers. Documentation. CREATe Centre, Glasgow.

Furgal, U. , Kretschmer, M. and Thomas, A. (2020) Memes and Parasites: a discourse analysis of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive. Working Paper. UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre, Glasgow. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4085050).

Conference or Workshop Item

Meletti, B., Thomas, A., Kretschmer, M. and Erickson, K. (2020) Text and Data Mining of Copyright Evidence. BEYOND 2020, Online, 30 Nov - 03 Dec 2020.

Thomas, A. (2020) Critical Discourse Analysis of End User Licensing Agreements: An Unorthodox Methodological Approach. ESRC Socio-Legal Methodology Workshop

Thomas, A. (2020) Copyright Evidence Wiki: Using Evidence to Inform Policy. Creative Commons Virtual Summit

Thomas, A. and Furgal, U. (2020) Memes and Parasites: Analysing Discourse on the Copyright Directive. Gikii 2020, Online, 30-31 Jul 2020.

Thomas, A. (2019) The Concept of User in End-User Licensing Agreements. CREATe Symposium 2019, Glasgow, UK, 08-10 Oct 2019.

Thomas, A. (2019) EULAs in eSports and Video Game Streaming: Copyright as a New Commercial Imperative for Game Owners. BILETA 34th Annual Conference 2019, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 16-17 Apr 2019.

Thomas, A. (2018) The Concept and Myth of the Digital User in Copyright Law. IP Researchers Europe Conference 2018 (IPRE 2018), Geneva, Switzerland, 29 Jun 2018.

Website

Thomas, A. (2022) The Breenbergh Deathmatch: how copyright regulates recreations of real spaces in unreal game worlds. [Website]

Thomas, A. (2022) Getting paid to play? Copyright, contract, and the rewards for UGC. [Website]

Thomas, A. (2022) The wrong r/place and the wrong time for copyright and NFTs? [Website]

Thomas, A. (2021) 21 for 2021: User Creativity in Online Platforms – Copyright or Contract? [Website]

Thomas, A. (2021) ‘All he has done is to play the game’: eSports players and copyright. [Website]

Thomas, A. (2019) EU Copyright Reform: What you may have missed. [Website]

This list was generated on Tue Oct 3 18:33:23 2023 BST.

Grants

  • 2022: ALCS commissioned report 'UK Authors' Earnings and Contracts: A Survey of 60,000 Writers'
  • 2022: ESRC IAA Follow On Fund 'You Can Play'
  • 2021: ESRC IAA User Engagement Fund ‘You Can Play: Developing User-Generated Content Policies for Video Game Creators'
  • 2017: PhD Scholarship in legal aspects of data and digital innovation at School of Law, in collaboration with international law firm CMS and CREATe

Teaching

  • Course Convenor (semester 2), Intellectual Property Law (LLB) University of Glasgow
  • Course Convenor, Intellectual Property Law (CCPR, Masters) University of Glasgow
  • Course Convenor: Copyright in the Digital Environment (LLM) University of Glasgow
  • Teaching Assistant: CopyrightX:CREATe (affiliated course offered by Harvard Law School) University of Glasgow
  • Lecutrer, Law for Engineers (intellectual property law) (Undergraduate) University of Glasgow

Amy has previously worked as a guest lecturer at the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities, the University of Strathclyde, and the University of Stockholm.

Additional information

Associate Fellowship of Recognising Excellence in Teaching (2020, University of Glasgow)