Dr. Emma Perot - Faculty of Law

LLB, LLM, BPTC, PhD

Dr. Emma Perot is a Lecturer in Law at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine. Her expertise is in the field of Intellectual Property (IP) Law with a focus on the protection of persona. She has published on a variety of IP topics including AI, music copyright, NFTs and technology transfer. Her first book, ‘Commercialising Celebrity Persona – Intellectual Property Law and Practice’ was published by Hart Publishing in 2023. She was awarded ‘Most Outstanding Faculty Researcher – Faculty of Law’ at the Principal’s Research Awards 2023. Dr. Perot has translated her research into policy making as a member of the National Steering Committee for Digital Innovations for Sustainable Environmental and Economic Recovery in Trinidad and Tobago. She was consulted on the regulation of deepfake technology for a report for the government of the Netherlands, as well as the role of patent law in climate change for ‘Justice is Green’ NGO. She provided feedback on Trinidad and Tobago’s National Innovation Policy 2024 and is an advocate for proactive IP management. Dr. Perot aims to use her knowledge to develop intellectual property assets of the region. She has conducted a workshop for Caribbean Creatives funded by the InterAmerican Development Bank via the CATAPULT grant and was programme director and a speaker at CarniConversations. She has spoken on a variety of topics at UWI events such as technology transfer, intellectual property commercialisation, film and IP and IP for engineers. Dr. Perot spent 8 years in the UK before returning home to Trinidad. She received her PhD in Intellectual Property from King’s College London where she was a Dickson Poon Scholar. Prior to this, she obtained her LLM in Intellectual Property with Distinction from University College London. She was a Kennedy Scholar at Lincoln’s Inn where she was called to the Bar in 2016. She achieved her LLB with First Class Honours from the University of Kent where she received the Chancellor’s Scholarship for Trinidad and Tobago.

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Degrees:

LLB, First Class Honours, Chancellor’s Scholar, University of Kent
LLM in Intellectual Property, Distinction, UCL
Bar Professional Training Course, Very Competent, Lincoln’s Inn Kennedy Scholar, BPP
PhD in Intellectual Property Law, Dickson Poon Scholar, King’s College London
Certification of University Teaching and Learning, 4.24 GPA, UWI St Augustine

Teaching Interests:

Intellectual Property
Entertainment Law

Research Interests:

Right of publicity
Copyright
Trade Marks
Patents

PhD Supervision Interests:

Right of publicity
Copyright
Trade Marks
Patents

Books (peered reviewed):

1. Perot E, Commercialising Celebrity Persona – Intellectual Property Law and Practice (Hart Publishing, 2023)

2. Perot E, Ochoa T, Welkowitz D, Celebrity Rights: Rights of Publicity and Related Rights in the United Stated and Abroad (Carolina Academic Press 2025, forthcoming)

Book Chapters (peer reviewed):

1. Perot E, ‘Post-mortem rights of publicity – A comparison of New York and California’ (pg 348 – 365) in Eleonora Rosati and Hayleigh Bosher (eds), Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law – 20 Years of the IPKat (Oxford University Press 2023)

2. Perot E, ‘Marijuana and Image Rights’ in Natalie Corthesy, Enrico Bonadio and Yentyl Williams (eds), Intellectual Property and Cannabis (Edward Elgar 2025, forthcoming)

Book Chapters Accepted for publication (peer reviewed)

1. Perot E, ‘Sports Personality Rights’ in Justin Koo and Jayson Haynes (eds) Intellectual Property and Sports (Edward Elgar 2025, forthcoming)

Blog:

1. Blog post: ‘Abortions and Intellectual Property’ IP ArchIPelago (28 July 2022):

Newspaper Articles:

1. Intellectual Property: A driver and keeper of innovation Sunday Guardian pg 26, December 15 2024

Published Articles (peer reviewed):

1. Perot E and Koo J ‘Leveraging the Parasocial Relationship for Intellectual Property Rights (Taylor’s Version) 26 Media and Arts Law Review 67

2. Perot E, ‘Anticipating AI: A Partial Solution to Image Rights Protection for Performers’ (2024) 46(4) European Intellectual Property Review 407 – 418 (A rating – ABDC journal quality list)

3. Perot E, ‘Technology transfer, climate change, and the developing world: The difficulties posed by green patents’ (2023) 18(5) Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice 397 – 406 {2 citations} (impact factor 0.6)

4. Perot E, ‘The Conflict between the Copyright of Paparazzi and the Right of Publicity of Celebrities’ (2021) 30 Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal 121 – 183 {2 citations} (impact factor 0.8)

5. Perot E, ‘NFTs: Copyright Friend or Foe?’ (2021) 43(12) European Intellectual Property Review 793 – 799 (A rating – ABDC journal quality list)

6. Perot E and Mostert F, ‘Fake it till you make it: an examination of the US and English approaches to persona protection as applied to deepfakes on social media’ (2020) 15(1) Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice 32 – 39 {24 citations} (impact factor 0.6)

7. Perot E, ‘Image Rights in Context’ (2020) 15(3) Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice 147 – 148 (impact factor 0.6)

8. Perot E, ‘Maximising Utility: Applying utilitarian theory to international patent law’ (2014) 5(1) King’s Student Law Review 58 – 77 {3 citations} (A rating – ABDC journal quality list)

9. Perot E, ‘Music Royalty Splits: Copyright and Music Industry Practices Behind the Increase in Writer Credits and Rights Clearance’ (2025) 14 Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law 1 – 40

Articles Accepted for Publication (peer reviewed):

1. Kretschmer M, Meletti B, Bently L, Cifrodelli G, Eben M, Erickson K, Iramina A, Li Z, McDonagh L, Perot E, Porangaba L, Thomas A, ‘Copyright and AI in the UK: Opting-In or Opting-Out?’ (2025) 74(10) GRUR International (forthcoming)

Papers presented at Conferences and Seminars:

1. ‘Navigating the Copyright Fact versus Expression Division while avoiding Substantial Fictionalisation’, Intellectual Property Roundtable, Texas A&M University, Fort Worth (November 8 2024)

2. ‘Commercialising Celebrity Persona: Intellectual Property Law and Practice’, Texas A&M Law School (November 7 2024)

3. ‘Commercialising Celebrity Persona: Intellectual Property Law and Practice’, University of Houston Law School (November 5 2024)

4. ‘Technology transfer, climate change, and the developing world: The difficulties posed by green patents’ Oil and Gas Conference, UWI St Augustine Faculty of Law, Port of Spain (June 29 2024)

5. ‘Music Copyright Ownership: Factors Behind the Increase in Writer Credits and Rights Clearance’, Intellectual Property Roundtable, Texas A&M University, Fort Worth (November 3 2023)

6. ‘Music Copyright Ownership: Factors Behind the Increase in Writer Credits and Rights Clearance’, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Cardozo School of Law Yeshiva University, New York (August 4 2023)

7. ‘The copyright line between fact and expression: protecting life story rights through the back door’, Junior Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Fordham Law School, New York (August 2 2023)

8. ‘The Climate Crisis and Technology: The barriers to technology transfer’, Works in Progress in Intellectual Property Colloquium, Boston University, Massachusetts (February 4 2023)

9. ‘Publicity Rights, Celebrity Rights, Social Norms: Industry Practices in the US and UK’, Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium, St Louis University, Missouri (February 18 2022)

10. ‘Commercialising Image Rights for Caribbean Athletes’, Evolve: New Frontiers for Regional and International Sports Law, UWI Mona Law (September 10 2021)

11. ‘The conflict between the copyright of Paparazzi and the Right of Publicity of celebrities’, Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium online (February 2021)

12. ‘Protecting the Persona of Reggae Artists on a Global Scale: A Comparative Examination of Jamaica, the US and the UK’, 6^th Annual Reggae Conference, UWI Mona, Jamaica (February 19 2019)

13. ‘The interaction of law and social norms in the commercialisation of persona – a comparative study of the UK, New York, and California’, Oxford Intellectual Property Law Discussion Group, Oxford (October 30 2018)

14. ‘The interaction of law and social norms in the commercialisation of persona – a comparative study of the UK, New York, and California’, European Policy for Intellectual Property Association, Berlin (September 6 2018)

15. ‘Improving publicity protection in the UK: Reformation of the advertising codes’, Society of Legal Scholars Conference, London (September 4 2018)

16. ‘The challenges of interdisciplinary research – intellectual property and the creative industries’, Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Conference, University of Kent (June 15 2018)