Dr Akiko Sonoda

Akiko Sonoda has a research fellowship from the Institute of Intellectual Property in Japan.  Her background is in literary studies, and her doctoral dissertation was on Coleridge's literary professionalism. She is currently working on a topic concerning the author's sense of literary proprietorship as seen against the background of the literary marketplace in the Victorian period. Her research is summarised in Historical Overview of Formation of International Copyright Agreements in the Process of Development of International Copyright Law from the 1830s to 1960s.