People in Department

Melanie Ramdarshan Bold
Lecturer

Interests and experience

I joined the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University in September 2010 after researching the models for the effective exploitation and protection of Intellectual Property Rights, for writers and publishers, in Scotland as part of a larger project on Creativity and Rights, within the Scottish Centre of the Book at Edinburgh Napier University. I am due to submit my PhD thesis this month and look forward to further researching this evolving subject area during my time at Loughborough University.

Current research

The History of Copyright
Copyright in the Digital Environment
Global Copyright Economy
Historical and Contemporary Authorship
The History of the Book and the Book Trade
Digital and Electronic Publishing
Trade Book Publishing
Business Model Development in the Media Industries

External activities

Selected publications

• Ramdarshan Bold, M. (2010) ‘No Man but a Blockhead Ever wrote, Except for Money: Copyright and the Profession of Author’, The International Journal of the Book, Vol 7, No 3.

Publications: [Details] to follow

Contact details

Tel: +44 (0) 1509 223061
Fax: +44 (0) 1509 223053

Email: m.ramdarshan-bold@lboro.ac.uk