Dr Hayleigh Bosher,
Associate Dean/Reader in
Intellectual Property Law,
Brunel University London
Dr Hayleigh Bosher is a Reader in Intellectual Property Law and Associate Dean (Professional Development and Graduate Outcomes) at Brunel University London where she also runs the Brunel Law School IP Pro Bono Service and is a member of the Brunel Centre for Artificial Intelligence: Social and Digital Innovation. Hayleigh’s research focuses on copyright and related laws and policy issues in the creative industries, particularly in context of music, social media, and artificial intelligence. She is the author of Copyright in the Music Industry, the producer and host of the podcast Whose Song is it Anyway? and writer for The IPKat blog. Hayleigh has an international reputation for her research, she has been cited in academic, practitioner and policy outputs and is regularly interviewed by national and international media outlets. Hayleigh has provided consultancy on the impact of AI on copyright to the creative industries and invited to give evidence to the UK Parliament on several occasions, such as in the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee Inquiry on the Governance of Artificial Intelligence and the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee on Large Language Models.