Graham Cornish has worked in copyright since 1983. He has run training courses too numerous to count on copyright, and has written a similar quantity of articles and papers on the topic for libraries and archives from many different perspectives. His publications include Copyright: interpreting law for libraries, archives and information services 4th. Edition), Keep it legal: copyright guidance for school library staff and Copyright in a week.

He spent several years working on electronic copyright management systems for EU funded projects. He is a Fellow of CILIP and was President of the LA in 2000. For eighteen years he was copyright advisor to the British Library. He now works as an independent advisor and trainer on copyright under the name “©opyright Circle”, working with libraries, archives, museums, publishers education at all levels and government departments as well as running one-day training courses for all-comers.