Miss Annaliese Wren
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Annaliese researches artistic copyright law, focusing on what the law defines as an artwork and how contemporary artistic mediums fit within copyright frameworks in the EU and UK.
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Biography
Before this, she obtained a Bachelor's Degree in History of Art and History, a Master's Degree and Conversion in Law, and has undertaken courses in Art Law at the Sotheby's Institute of Art, and Intellectual Property Law with the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Annaliese has previously worked for the Ministry of Justice and within the legal department for another government agency.
She has also completed an Associate-Fellowship at the CREATE HEA Institute.
Research interests
Annaliese’s research investigates the UK’s closed-list approach to defining 'artistic works' in copyright law and how this framework can unintentionally marginalise some creative practices. Focusing on tactile artistic works (artworks designed to be experienced through touch) her project explores the disconnect that can arise between legal categories and contemporary artistic practice. Drawing on doctrinal, socio-legal and empirical methods, and contrasting the UK’s position with the EU’s more open approach, her work aims to inform future reform that better accommodates diverse forms of creativity.
Publications
Selected publications
09/07/2025Tactile artistic works
European Intellectual Property Review
Book review: Eleonora Rosati, Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union (2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2023) 512 pp.
Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property
Recent publications
09/07/2025Tactile artistic works
European Intellectual Property Review
Beyond the visual: The overlooked realm of tactile artistic works within UK artistic copyright
The overlooked realm of tactile artistic works within UK Copyright Law
Book review: Eleonora Rosati, Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union (2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2023) 512 pp.
Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property