About
Dr Melanie Stockton-Brown is an intellectual property academic, and has worked on a number of interdisciplinary and empirical research projects on intellectual property law and cultural heritage. She is interested in the legal tensions with Synthetic content generation, primarily focusing on copyright law, and has published on how Synthetic art is impacting on tattoo artists (read the zine here). She is part of the AHRC BRAID project Shared Post-Human Imagination: Human-AI Collaboration in Media Creation, which focuses on Synthetic creation and usage in the media industry. She created a short film (Beloved, 2021) about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, with Dr Amy Tatum at Bournemouth University, which won an international film award at the English Riveria Film Festival; and was selected at film festivals in Brazil, Italy and the UK.