New Directions in Copyright Law will be a six-part series, edited by Professor Fiona Macmillan, publishing the workshop and conference papers of the AHRC Copyright Research Network. The series will be published by Edward Elgar.

A collection of conference papers from 2004 has been published as New Directions in Copyright Law Volume 2 (2006).

A collection of conference papers from 2005 has been published as New Directions in Copyright Law Volume 4 (2007).

Conference papers from 2006 will be published as New Directions in Copyright Law Volume 6. This is due for publication in autumn 2007.

New Directions in Copyright Law Volume 2 contains papers by:
Birgitte Andersen and Sue Konzelmann
Tanya Aplin
Olufunmi Arewa
Kathy Bowrey
Lee Davis
Johanna Gibson
Willem Grosheide
Michael Handler
Paul Heald
John Howkins
Martin Kretschmer
Lisa Maruca
Marilyn Strathern
Kim Treigar-Bar-Am
Charlotte Waelde
Daphne Zographos.

New Directions in Copyright Law Volume 4 contains papers by:
Lucky Belder
David M. Berry
Peter Fitzpatrick
Johanna Gibson
Jonathan Griffiths
Andrés Guadamuz González
Richard Joyce
Neil Weinstock Netanel
Stina Teilmann
Guido Westkamp

New Directions in Copyright Law Volume 6 contains papers by:
Andrew F Christie
Graeme Dinwoodie
Ian Eagles
Michael Handler
Paul Heald
Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Emily Hudson
Andrew T Kenyon
Louise Longdin
Fiona Macmillan
Helle Porsdam
Andreas Rahmatian
Robynne Quiggin
Joseph Savirimuthu
Stina Teilmann
Leslie Treiger-Bar-Am

Some of the papers presented at the conferences in 2004 and 2005 are available as .pdf files below.

2004
Annual Conference on New Directions in Copyright

Dr Kathy Bowrey, School of Law, University of New South Wales
"The New, the Bad, the Hot, the Fad - popular music, technology and the culture of freedom"

Dr Sue Konzelmann, and Dr Birgitte Anderson, School of Management and Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London
"Releasing the Productive Potential of Intellectual Property: Governance and Value Creation Processes"

Professor Marilyn Strathern, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge
'Protecting channels of communication: some challenges from the Pacific'

Professor Paul Heald, Allen Post Professor of Law, University of Georgia
“American Copyright Strategy: A brilliant, decentralized plan”

Professor Lisa Maruca, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies , Wayne State University, Detroit
"The Plagiarism Panic:Digital Policing in the New Intellectual Property Regime"

Leslie Kim Treiger-Bar-Am, St John’s College, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
'The Moral Right of Integrity: A Freedom of Expression'

2005
Annual Conference on New Directions in Copyright

Dr Stina Teilmann, University of Southern Denmark
It is a wise text that knows its own father: Some problems in paternity
rights

Professor Hector MacQueen, AHRB Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology, University of Edinburgh
Copyright Law Reform: Some Achievable Goals?

2006
Annual Conference on New Directions in Copyright

Professor Ian Eagles, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland
Copyright and the Sequel: What Happens Next?

Dr Stina Teilmann, University of Southern Denmark
Copying: from Wrong to Right

Associate Professor Louise Longdin, Department of Commercial Law, University of Auckland
Copyright: The Last Trade Barrier in a Globalised World?

Leslie Treiger-Bar-Am, St John's College, Oxford
Authors’ Rights as a Limit to Copyright Control