Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Glasgow, and Director of CREATe
Martin Kretschmer is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Glasgow, and Director of CREATean AHRC funded Centre with a focus on copyright and digital regulation. He was leading the PEC work stream on Intellectual Property and Regulation from 2018-2023. Martin has authored numerous studies at the interface of law, social science and digital technology, including for the UK Cabinet Office, UK Intellectual Property Office, European Commission, European Parliament and research councils AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC. Martin is general editor (with Prof. Lionel Bently, Cambridge University) ofCopyrightHistory.org, the digital archive of primary sources on copyright from 1450 to 1900. In 2018, Martin was Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute; in 2020/21, Weizenbaum Fellow at Humboldt University and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. In 2015-2016, he was president of the European Policy for Intellectual Property Association (EPIP), chairing EPIP 2015 in Glasgow. Martin is chair elect of the European Copyright Society.
