Dr Brian Bandey

Dr. Brian Bandey is one of the United Kingdom’s leading experts on Computer Law and the international application of the Law of Copyright to Computer Programming Technologies. His experience in the global computer law environment spans more than two decades and he routinely advises on and drafts contracts in respect of almost every specie of arrangement that the world computer software industry makes.

Dr. Bandey is the principal of a UK consultancy firm servicing the needs of multinational software houses for specialist copyright/computer law advice throughout the world. He is the author of a definitive legal practitioner’s textbook on “International Copyright in Computer Program Technology”. This work is recognised as being the first definitive text which examines all of the principal technologies employed in the development, manufacture, use and general exploitation of all computer program types; thereafter applying the Law of Copyright (in the United Kingdom, USA and the European Union). A new edition to this work is in progress together with works on the Law of the Internet and E-Liability.

Dr. Bandey’s legal opinions are regularly published throughout the world. His articles have appeared internationally (e.g., articles on “Multimedia Law” and “Computer-Generated Works” published in the New Zealand Intellectual Property Journal). His commentaries on contemporary IT legal issues have been syndicated by the BBC and Washington Post, among others. Among the papers Dr. Bandey has presented internationally are ones on Copyright in Computer-Generated Multimedia Works (Fifth National and First European Conference on Law, Computers and Artificial Intelligence) and on IT Intellectual Property: Global Management through the Offshore Holding Entity (International Symposia sponsored by the Republic of the Seychelles).

Dr. Bandey is now well-advanced upon the unique route of studying for a Second Doctorate of Law advancing the current state of the art in the Copyright in the Construction, Structure and Operation of Internet-based Technologies with St. Peter’s College at the University of Oxford in England. He is a Research Associate of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and his other current research interests include ‘Internet Law’ and ‘Corporate Legal Liability arising by the Misuse of Employer IT Systems by Employees’.