Johanna Gibson BA BA (Hons I), MA, PGDipAppSci, JD (Queensland), PhD (Edinburgh)

Johanna Gibson is Reader in Intellectual Property Law, with degrees in cultural and critical theory, animal sciences, and law. Before joining CCLS, Johanna practised law at Allens Arthur Robinson (Melbourne, Australia) in Intellectual Property, Communications, Media and Technology, and was a lecturer in law at Brunel University, West London, where she taught international intellectual property law on the LLM programme.

Research Interests

Much of Johanna's research is concerned with intellectual property and socio-economic development. She has consulted to the European Patent Office on future patent policy, the UK Patent Office on copyright and the creative economy, and has participated in expert forums on copyright, digital rights management, and human rights and intellectual property. Johanna maintains research interests in legal theory and intellectual property law, traditional knowledge and cultural diversity, and the relationship between intellectual property systems and the narration of culture and innovation. Johanna also works on current policy and developments in the areas of biotechnology and intellectual property aspects of medicine, and has reported to the Scottish Executive on the ethical and legal aspects of genetic sampling and collection, consent, and privacy. Johanna Gibson was generously supported by the AHRC to conduct her research project, Patenting Lives, examining the implications of changes to international intellectual property law for development and diversity. The research project continues with an international network of scholars, a website, project blog, and forthcoming workshops and conference publications. Johanna is editing a collection of materials from the Research Project and the Conference, with the first volume, entitled Patenting Lives: Life Patents, Development and Culture , to be published by Ashgate in 2007. Johanna is also general editor of a new intellectual property series for Ashgate: Intellectual Property, Theory, Culture .

Publications Since 2001

Open Access, Open Source and Free Software: Is There a Copy Left?, in F. Macmillan (Editor), New Directions in Copyright Law: Volume 4, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007, 127-143, ISBN: 1845422639 [URL]

"The Discovery of Invention: Gene Patents and the Question of Patentability," [2007] 12 Journal of Intellectual Property Rights 45-56, ISSN: 0971-5544 [URL]

"Consumer Protection:" Consumer Strategies and the European Market in Genetically Modified Foods , [2006], 5 Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property, 176-191[URL]

Creating Selves: Intellectual Property and the Narration of Culture, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, 178, ISBN: 0754647072 [URL]

Markets in Tradition: Traditional Agricultural Communities and the Impact of GMOs [2006] 3(3) SCRIPT-ed 216-225, ISSN: 1744-2567 [URL]

Zur Durchsetzbarkeit von Immaterialgüterrechten in Bulgarien (Co-author with M. Blakeney and G. Westkamp) [2006] 15(9) Wirtschaft und Recht in Osteuropa 271-276, ISSN: 0941-6293 [URL]

Community and the Exhaustion of Culture: Creative Territories in Traditional Cultural Expressions, in F. Macmillan & K. Bowrey (Editors), New Directions in Copyright Law: Volume 3, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006, 15-36, ISBN: 1845422627 [URL]

A Right to My Public: Copyright, Human Right, or Privacy?, in F. Macmillan & K. Bowrey (Editors), New Directions in Copyright Law: Volume 3, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006, 115-131, ISBN: 1845422627 [URL]

Community Resources: Intellectual Property Systems, Traditional Knowledge, and the Global Legal Authority of Community, in L. Merino and J. Robson (Editors), Managing the Commons: Indigenous Rights, Economic Development and Identity, Coyoacan: IASCP, 2006, 53-65, ISBN: 9688177377 [URL]

Open to Question: The Open Congress Event and its Users, in M Vishmidt (Editor), Media Mutandis: a NODE.London Reader, London: NODE.London, 2006, ISBN: 0955243505 [URL]

The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: A Valuable Affair [2006] 3(1) SCRIPT-ed 2, ISSN: 1744-2567 [URL]

Patenting Lives: Life Patents, Culture, and Development [2006] 11(2) Journal of Intellectual Property Rights 103-112, ISSN: 0971-5544 [URL]

Freedoms and Knowledge, Access and Silence: Traditional Knowledge and Freedom of Speech, in F. Macmillan (Editor), New Directions in Copyright Volume 2, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006, 198-221, ISBN: 1845422619 [URL]

Community in Resources, Tradition in Knowledge, in S. Herbechter and M. Higgins (Editors) Returning (to) Communities: Theory, Culture and Political Practice of the Communal, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006, 173-206, ISBN: 9042018984 [URL]

Community Resources: Intellectual Property, International Trade and Protection of Traditional Knowledge, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2005, 387, ISBN: 0754644367 [URL]

Patenting Lives [2005] 2(3) SCRIPT-ed 319, ISSN: 1744-2567 [URL]

Generation Scotland: Legal and Ethical Aspects (Co-author with G. Laurie), Edinburgh: AHRC Research Centre, 2005, ISBN: 0954971701 [URL]

Intellectual Property Systems, Traditional Knowledge, and the Legal Authority of Community [2004] 26 European Intellectual Property Review 280-290, ISSN: 0142-0461 [URL]

Indigenous Resources and the International Context for Protection [2004] 1(1) SCRIPT-ed 48-82, ISSN: 1744-2567 [URL]

Trading Places With Communities: Toward the Protection of Traditional Knowledge in the Context of International Trade and Global Markets [2003] 2(1) Journal of International Trade Law and Policy, ISSN: 1477-0024 [URL]

The National Encroachment Upon Community Space: Recent Australian Decisions in Indigenous Rights to Natural Resources [2003] 2(2) Xchanges [URL]

Self-Preservation is the First Law of Nature: Conserving the Cultural Diversity in India's Biological Resources [2003] 24(1) South Asian Review 62-75, ISSN: 0275-9527 [URL]

The Cultural Diversity in Biodiversity: The Protection of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Resources in a Global Context [2003] 2 (Spring) Situation Analysis 46-61, ISSN: 1478-2014 [URL]

Justice of Precedent, Justness of Equity: Equitable Protection and Remedies for Indigenous Intellectual Property [2001] 6(4) Australian Indigenous Law Reporter 1-21, ISSN: 1323-7756 [URL]

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