Postgraduate Research Student
Liverpool Law School
Biography
Yichen Zhang is a PhD candidate at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool. Yichen obtained her LLM (International Trade and Commercial Law) from the University of Durham. Her master’s thesis examined the copyright issues in video game streams, with a focus on whether copyright law’s balancing mechanisms and external constitutional balancing mechanisms can address conflicting interests between copyright holders and streamers.
Yichen is funded by the University of Liverpool and the China Scholarship Council (CSC) joint scholarship.
Research
Yichen’s research interests lie predominantly in Intellectual Property (IP) Law and technology. Her thesis explores the ways in which Text and Data Mining (TDM) exceptions in the UK can be reformed to strike a balance between strong copyright protection and AI development.
Thesis title
Harmonisation or Competition: Rethinking Text and Data Mining Exceptions in the UK
Date of study
PhD Start Date: October 2022
PhD Completion Date (Expected): October 2026
Supervisors
- Dr Sujitha Subramanian (Liverpool Law School)
Outside interests
Yichen is a fan of FunPlus Phoenix (FPX) ESports Club. She enjoys watching video game streams, especially LoL. She drinks iced americano every day and hates any milk in it.