Dr. Brian Bandey is one of the United Kingdom’s leading experts on IT Law, Internet Law, 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 a quarter of a century 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 the UK consultancy practice “ PATRONUS” servicing the needs of multinational software houses for specialist copyright/computer law advice throughout the world.

He is the author of a definitive legal practitioners 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. “International Copyright in Computer Program Technology ” has won international acclaim from practitioners and academics alike - for example, it is cited by William R. Cornish, QC. (Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge, England) in his work “Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights ” (4 th Ed.). It is also cited in “Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights” (5th Ed.) by Cornish and Llewelyn.

His legal opinions are regularly published throughout the world. For example, he has had articles published on “Multimedia Law” and “Computer-Generated Works” by the New Zealand Intellectual Property Journal and his commentaries on current legal issues are syndicated throughout the world by such organisations as the BBC and Washington Post.

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 (www.oiprc.ox.ac.uk) and advises the Open Source Software Advisory Service (www.oss-watch.ac.uk) on Intellectual Property matters.

His other current research interests include ‘Internet Law’ and ‘Corporate Legal Liability arising by the Misuse of Employer IT Systems by Employees’. For more information on this research (conducted now for over 3 years) – please see the “E-Terrors” Section.