Centre for Creativity, Regulation, Enterprise & Technology (CREATe)

Lead Research Organisation: University of Glasgow
Department Name: School of Law

Abstract

Over the last decade, the creative industries have been revolutionised by the Internet and the digital economy. The UK, already punching above its weight in the global cultural market, stands at a pivotal moment where it is well placed to build a cultural, business and regulatory infrastructure in which first movers as significant as Google, Facebook, Amazon or iTunes may emerge and flourish, driving new jobs and industry.

However, for some creators and rightsholders the transition from analogue to digital has been as problematic as it has been promising. Cultural heritage institutions are also struggling to capitalise upon new revenue streams that digitisation appears to offer, while maintaining their traditional roles. Policymakers are hampered by a lack of consensus across stakeholders and confused by partisan evidence lacking robust foundations. Research in conjunction with industry is needed to address these problems and provide support for legislators.

CREATe will tackle this regulatory and business crisis, helping the UK creative industry and arts sectors survive, grow and become global innovation pioneers, with an ambitious programme of research delivered by an interdisciplinary team (law, business, economics, technology, psychology and cultural analysis) across 7 universities. CREATe aims to act as an honest broker, using open and transparent methods throughout to provide robust evidence for policymakers and legislators which can benefit all stakeholders.

CREATe will do this by:
- focussing on studying and collaborating with SMEs and individual creators as the incubators of innovation;
- identifying "good, bad and emergent business models": which business models can survive the transition to the digital?, which cannot?, and which new models can succeed and scale to drive growth and jobs in the creative economy, as well as supporting the public sector in times of recession?;
- examining empirically how far copyright in its current form really does incentivise or reward creative work, especially at the SME/micro level, as well as how far innovation may come from "open" business models and the "informal economy";
- monitoring copyright reform initiatives in Europe, at WIPO and other international fora to assess how they impact on the UK and on our work;
- using technology as a solution not a problem: by creating pioneering platforms and tools to aid creators and users, using open standards and released under open licences;
- examining how to increase and derive revenues from the user contribution to the creative economy in an era of social media, mash-up, data mining and "prosumers";
- assessing the role of online intermediaries such as ISPs, social networks and mobile operators to see if they encourage or discourage the production and distribution of cultural goods, and what role they should play in enforcing copyright. Given the important governing role of these bodies should they be subject to regulation like public bodies, and if so, how?;
- consider throughout this work how the public interest and human rights, such as freedom of expression, privacy, and access to knowledge for the socially or physically excluded, may be affected either positively or negatively by new business models and new ways to enforce copyright.

To investigate these issues our work will be arranged into seven themes: SMEs and good, bad and emergent business models; Open business models; Regulation and enforcement; Creators and creative practice; Online intermediaries and physical and virtual platforms; User creation, behaviour and norms; and, Human rights and the public interest. Our deliverables across these themes will be drawn together to inform a Research Blueprint for the UK Creative Economy to be launched in October 2016.

Planned Impact

CREATe's research focus and major impact will concern SMEs and individual creators and performers who typically lack access to legal and IP management advice and technical assistance, vital to commercialising innovative and creative ideas. We will also engage large corporate interests whose influence, resources and global reach will be integral to CREATe's impact and long term sustainability. In addition, we will deliver impact for: the public arts sector who pressingly need legal, business and technical advice around digitisation of holdings, archives and outputs; policymakers who need independent research on the cultural and digital environment, free from stakeholder bias or influence; civil society, who need support in advising citizens and supporting civil liberties and innovation in policy debate; and, users by improving their quality of life.

To optimise impact we have recruited over 75 non-ROs, including individual creators, SMEs, major corporate interests, cultural heritage institutions, and civil society and policy organisations. Should our bid succeed, we also have firm indications of future support from Google, Hewlett Packard, the FA Premier League, PRS for Music, TATE, BBC Research, Creative England, Consumer Focus and Creative Commons. We will also seek dialogue with the IPO, BIS, DCMS, Ofcom, WIPO and the EC Commission. We expect these partnerships to be ongoing, extending impact beyond the funding period. We would also note the regional strength of our research consortium; only 30% of employment in the creative industries is concentrated in London, eg there is significant games industry and media concentration in Scotland.

Industry is notoriously hard to engage with academic research. We draw on the expertise of the University of Glasgow Research & Enterprise, and have learnt from the success of our partners at Horizon who doubled their RCUK funding base from £20m to £40m through industry support in just 2 years. To involve and engage existing and new partners we will:
- Integrate our public sector, civil society, and industry champions into all Centre activities. For example, our industry champion, Frank Boyd of the Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network (set up under the Technology Strategy Board) will sit on our Governance and Research Advisory Boards providing access to over 5,500 creative industries enterprises;
- Involve partners in CREATe events and seminar series as speakers, panel organisers and attendees, especially our initial brainstorming and end-of-Centre industry training events;
- Leverage existing mechanisms for funding SME/academic engagement such as Encompass First Step Awards and the SFC Innovation Voucher scheme, and run sand-pit style bidding by industry for project ideas. We will also encourage bidding jointly with industry for funding from TSB, RCUKRC, Arts Council, NESTA, and so on;
- Establish residency and secondment programmes allowing two-way exchange of staff between CREATe and its partners;
- Create outputs specifically tailored for industry, such as: creative industry multi-sector guidance on IP management; our Research Blueprint for the UK Creative Economy; open source tools on data-mining, automated licensing and user interface; co-authored articles for industry journals, and presentations in industry fora. For policymakers and civil society, we will set agendas for debate, respond to consultations and "translate" research from one discipline to another
- Use our international academic partners as well as our existing consortium partner networks to extend impact eg Goldsmiths, Edinburgh and St Andrews' participation in AHRC Creative Knowledge Exchange Hubs (CreativeWorks, Design in Action); Horizon and connections to other Digital Economy Hubs; UEA's high profile in creative writing, media lecture series and London hub; Strathclyde's involvement with EPSRC Bridging the Gap activities, and so on;
- Develop tailored online training modules for industry.

Organisations

 
Title CREATe Tartan 
Description Tartan, bound within the history and culture of Scotland, has been documented from the 15th century, made with locally available dyes and worn for both fashion and function in the Highlands. Wearing "Highland dress," including kilts and tartan, was made a criminal offence with the Dress Act of 1746, but following its repeal in 1782, tartan regained popularity in Scotland and abroad. It is now well known to be associated with clans, the Highland games, and heritage. Based on an idea germinated from CREATe researcher Megan Rae Blakely's (University of Glasgow) study of intangible cultural heritage, IP, and cultural branding in Celtic-derived cultures, it was only fitting that CREATe, a consortium with 4 Scottish University members, should have an official tartan. Since a tartan symbolises a group, a family, or even a brand, with communities around the world having created tartans to be worn by their members, the CREATe tartan is based on our academic and professional community, tied together by a shared culture of interdisciplinary research and learning. The CREATe tartan colours were chosen with regard to existing colour psychology symbolising specific aspects: black for CREATe's monochrome logo; red for the UK's partner universities; light purple for creativity and diversity of research themes; dark blue for regulation and law; green for enterprise and inventiveness; and; light yellow for technology and intellect. The CREATe tartan is duly registered with the Scottish Register of Tartans, administered by the National Records of Scotland. The first batch of tartan scarves was woven by Bute Fabrics on the Isle of Bute in the West of Scotland. create.ac.uk/tartan 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2016 
Impact N/A 
URL http://create.ac.uk/tartan
 
Title Learning on Screen - Copyright Guidance 
Description The Copyright Guidance page of the Learning on Screen website links to several pages of CopyrightUser.org: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/copyright-guidance/ 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact Learning on Screen - a charity and membership organisation specialised in the use of moving image and sound in education and research - offers a course on Copyright and Creative Reuse in Education, aimed primarily at copyright officers, e-learning technologists, librarians and other members of staff who are responsible for advising colleagues on copyright issues in HE institutions. An entire session of the course is dedicated to demonstrating how The Game is On! resource can be used to teach UK copyright law 
URL https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/copyright-guidance/
 
Title On 3rd June 2019, The UK Intellectual Property Office launched a new educational resource aimed at facilitating the use of The Game is On! in FE and schools: 
Description The UK IPO resource includes a set of teaching notes, introductory guides to copyright law, and curriculum links as well as a new trailer for The Game is On! series: https://vimeo.com/333531802 
Type Of Art Composition/Score 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact The UK IPO published a blog to promote the new resource: https://ipo.blog.gov.uk/2019/06/13/the-game-is-on-copyright-and-creativity-with-sherlock-holmes/ 
URL https://ipo.blog.gov.uk/2019/06/13/the-game-is-on-copyright-and-creativity-with-sherlock-holmes/
 
Title Pixel Dress and Metadata Skirt 
Description Andrea Wallace, CREATe PhD candidate created Pixel Dress and Metadata Skirt as part of her activities. These designs were inspired by Abraham Mignon's painting Still Life with Flowers and a Watch. A pixellated image of the painting was digitally printed onto fabric from which she sewed a dress. An accompanying skirt is printed with the metadata embedded within the digital image. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2016 
Impact The items have been submitted to the prestigious Rijksstudio Award 2017 organised by the Rijksmuseum. From an initial 2,600 entries, the selection was narrowed to 30 and the Top 10 will be announced at the end of March. The first prize is 10,000 euro, the second 2,500 euro, and the third 1,500 euro. In addition, a people's choice award of 1,000 euro is up for grabs. The finalists' projects will be exhibited in one of the museum's galleries for ten weeks following the reveal on 21 April 2017. 
URL http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2017/03/13/create-postgrad-rijks-award/
 
Description Findings to date are accessible from the CREATe Legacy Report 2016: http://festival.create.ac.uk/create-legacy/

CREATe's 3 Annual Report submissions are available from the URL listed below. CREATe's Final Report is available HERE
Exploitation Route See above our main achievements to date include -

CREATe has become a key player in a change of policy perspective. The role of copyright law in promoting creativity and innovation is now seen as open to empirical investigation, and CREATe has supplied credible and widely cited evidence, becoming recognised as a global leader in the field within a very short time. The CREATe brand is distinct and internationally acknowledged. For example the Annual Conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Association meeting hosted at the University of Glasgow in 2015 focussed for the first time on copyright, and received a wide echo.

Our digital resources define a new field of enquiry, and have been used by hundreds of thousands of people from 161 countries. We developed and co-produced CopyrightEvidence.org, CopyrightUser.org (with Bournemouth University & Queen's University Belfast) and CopyrightHistory.org (with University of Cambridge).

Peer production of digital resources can create an open knowledge environment that is particularly suitable for interdisciplinary fields. CREATe has demonstrated that it is possible to involve users in research design and the development of open access platforms.
CREATe has focused on achieving two kinds of impact:

Influencing copyright reform, by inducing a shift to evidence-based standards in a highly polarised debate (previously dominated by the language of 'copy-right' vs 'copy-left', 'piracy' and 'enforcement').

Enabling the creative industries to develop a much wider range of behavioural options relating to copyright.
Sectors Communities and Social Services/Policy

Creative Economy

Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software)

Education

Government

Democracy and Justice

Culture

Heritage

Museums and Collections
URL http://www.create.ac.uk
 
Description The following case study is being submitted as a University of Glasgow REF Impact case for Unit of Assessment (UoA) 18 Law. Title of case study: Enabling digital innovation: an evidence-led approach to EU copyright law Period when the underpinning research was undertaken: 2014-2020 Details of staff conducting the underpinning research from the submitting unit: Name(s): (1) Martin Kretschmer (2) Kris Erickson (3) Bartolomeo Meletti (4) Thomas Margoni Role(s) (e.g. job title): (1) Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of CREATe Centre; (2) Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith Research Fellow; (3) Employed on a consultancy basis to develop Copyrightuser.org, thereafter Copyright Education Creative Director; (4) Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Internet Law Period(s) employed by submitting HEI: (1) 2012-present (2) 2013-2017 (3) 2014-2017; 2017-present (4) 2016-2020 Period when the claimed impact occurred: 2015-2020 Is this case study continued from a case study submitted in 2014? No 1. Summary of the impact Copyright law governs the use of a wide range of cultural materials. In the digital age, it is increasingly difficult to know whether these materials can be used, and how permissions should be sought. UofG research has: (i) produced evidence to inform the EU copyright debate. From 2015 onwards, Kretschmer coordinated an academic response to proposed EU legislation, which persuaded a majority of MEPs to reject the first negotiation mandate for the Copyright Directive in 2018. The research: (ii) supported amendments to articles 5, 11 & 13, which protect the rights of EU citizens over corporate interests. The same research underpins one of the UK's leading copyright guidance websites, which has: (iii) shaped the creative policy and practice of copyright 'users' within the creative sector via engagement with the British Film Institute. 2. Underpinning research Almost every activity on a mobile phone, computer or network involves acts of copying. Copyright law has effects that go far beyond its origins of regulating the behaviour of competitors in the same industry sector (e.g. such as protecting a publisher against a re-publisher). It now affects the infrastructure of society, and the role of creators and users as citizens. CREATe, the UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre (hosted by the UofG School of Law) was established in 2012 to enable a new evidence-led understanding of copyright law. 2.1. Reconceiving the 'users' of copyright CREATe researchers have studied how to enable the creative sector to develop a much wider range of behavioral options relating to copyright. In 2015, an assessment [O1] was undertaken across six artistic mediums: music, film, performance, visual art, writing and interactive development. It sought to understand creators, entrepreneurs, educators and consumers as 'users' of copyright. The research identified and quantified obstacles to creative re-use that arise from misunderstandings of the boundaries of copyright law [O2] and proposed specific interventions to release the value of the creative re-use of material (e.g. increasing the amount of material available in the public domain through legislation; improving knowledge about the boundaries of copyright law among creators; and improving information flow between creative industries and holders of public domain materials). These recommendations were implemented by UofG researchers in the development of the UK online guidance portal CopyrightUser.org (led by CREATe). 2.2. The EU Copyright Directive When the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive was proposed by the European Commission in September 2016, CREATe undertook a series of evidence reviews and empirical studies [O3, O4, O5, O6] relating to the most controversial provisions in the draft legislation. The research found that evidence did not support provisions in Articles 5, 11 and 13, which sought to alter the balance between protecting and rewarding rightholders and facilitating user innovation. Article 5 (which later became Articles 3 and 4), proposed a new narrow exception that was designed to enable copying of materials in the process of text-and-data-mining. However, the exception was restricted to purposes of scientific research (thus excluding cultural heritage institutions, journalists and commercial start-ups). Margoni and Kretschmer's research [O4] showed that text-and-data-mining is misconceived as a copyright relevant activity, as the purpose of mining is extracting information from works, not copying the works. Article 11 (later Article 15), proposed that anyone using snippets of journalistic online content must first get a licence from the publisher, potentially affecting everyday activities such as blogging and hyperlinking. Along with Professor Lionel Bently (University of Cambridge) and others, Kretschmer was commissioned by the European Parliament to review the laws of seven Member States to see how far the proposed new articles would 'add value' [O5]. The desk work was executed primarily by the University of Cambridge, with a subcontract given to Prof. Kretschmer, who drew extensively upon the body of empirical evidence from CREATe research. A key finding was that previous interventions to establish press publishers' rights in Germany and Spain did not produce the intended effects (e.g. enforcing the rights of publishers and generating income from US tech companies). It also found that the proposal favoured incumbent publishing interests over innovation (e.g. the interests of quality journalism, small publishers or news-related start-ups). Article 13 (later Article 17) proposed to change the liability regime so that platforms that host user-generated content (e.g. YouTube) would become responsible for unlawful content found on their sites. A likely consequence of such proposals would be the introduction of large-scale upload filtering software-a burden that would likely discourage start-ups and effectively lock-in YouTube's dominance. Automated takedown would struggle to tell copyright infringement apart from legal uses such as parody; as a result, legitimate content would be removed, thus affecting creative freedoms. Kretschmer and Erickson's research [O6] investigated the factors that motivate takedown requests of user-generated content by copyright owners using an original dataset of 1,839 music video parodies. The research found that takedown requests by copyright holders already results in the removal of lawful content, and that policy concerns frequently raised by rightholders are not associated with statistically significant patterns of action. 3. References to the research [O1] K Erickson, P Heald, F Homberg, M Kretschmer and D Mendis, Copyright and the Value of the Public Domain: An Empirical Assessment (2015), Project Report, UK Intellectual Property Office, Newport. [O2] P Heald, K Erickson and M Kretschmer, "The valuation of unprotected works: a case study of public domain photographs on Wikipedia" (2015) 29(1) Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 1-32. [O3] M Kretschmer, S Dusollier, C Geiger and PB Hugenholtz, "The European Commission's public consultation on the role of publishers in the copyright value chain: a response by the European Copyright Society" (2016) 38(10) European Intellectual Property Review 591-595. [O4] T Margoni and M Kretschmer, "The text and data mining exception in the proposal for a directive on copyright in the digital single market: Why it is not what EU copyright law needs", paper presented at European Policy for IP, Berlin (07/09/2018), and Global Congress on IP & Public Interest, Washington (27/09/2018). Available as a CREATe blog (25/04/18). [O5] L Bently, M Kretschmer, T Dudenbostel, M Calatrava Moreno, and A Radauer, Strengthening the Position of Press Publishers and Authors and Performers in the Copyright Directive (2017), Project Report, European Parliament, Brussels. [PDF available] [O6] K Erickson, and M Kretschmer, "This video is unavailable": analyzing copyright takedown of user-generated content on YouTube (2018) 9(1) Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law 75-89. Evidence of the quality of the research: Output [O1] is an 81-page research report that was peer reviewed by the UK Intellectual Property Office prior to publication. Outputs [O2] and [O6] are published in international double-blind peer reviewed law journals. 4. Details of the impact 4.1. Context Copyright policy has suffered from the lack of an accepted evidence base. It is a highly technical field of law that, through digitization, is suddenly implicated in everyday life. The debate around the EU Commission's proposals for copyright reform (2015-2019) was played out amid intense corporate lobbying aimed at MEPs, governments and the general public. The face-off between US tech companies (e.g. Google) versus European collecting societies, record companies and press publishers, led to widespread accusations of deception and unfair lobbying. Amid this confusion, there was a real danger that the interests of EU citizens would be drowned out. 4.2. Informing the EU copyright debate CREATe's interdisciplinary research has provided EU citizens and policymakers with a trusted source of information during the course of this complex debate (as demonstrated by the report on corporate lobbying [E1]). Kretschmer also disseminated research findings and advocated CREATe's evidence-led approach through invited presentations at hearings in the European Parliament and at high-level roundtables for the European Commission (confirmed by collated evidence [E2]). A key recommendation of the research [O1] was to support innovation by increasing the amount of material available for re-use without seeking permission. When the final study [O1] was published in 2015, it fed into a European Parliament review of the 2001 Copyright Directive. The then Rapporteur cited the research in Parliament and endorsed its role in safeguarding public domain works for the benefit of EU society: 'the empirical results generated by the CREATe study helped my colleagues and I advocate for change to European copyright that will improve the regulatory landscape for creators and users.' (confirmed by letter [E3]). When controversial new legislation was introduced by the European Commission in September 2016, Kretschmer drew upon the underpinning research to coordinate an academic response to the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive. CREATe's digital portal [E4] became a focal point for this activity, providing a hub for the dissemination of academic statements and the findings of CREATe's most relevant research [O2, O3, O4]. As a result of the initiative of Kretschmer (and others), over 200 academics signed open letters opposing Articles 11 and 13. These interventions also advocated opening Article 5 (which became Articles 3 and 4: exceptions for text-and-data-mining) to all users, including for commercial purposes (confirmed by open letters [E5]). Kretschmer then co-authored an academic statement entitled 'Misinformation and Independent Enquiry' (known as the CREATe Statement [E6]), which received over 40,000 impressions on Twitter. This was a key piece of evidence that persuaded a majority of MEPs to reject the first negotiation mandate for the Directive in the vote on 5 July 2018. This rejection was highly significant, as it represented a surprise result in the face of extensive corporate lobbying (e.g. Google alone held 22 meetings with high-level European Commission staff specifically on copyright). With the Commission's proposals sent back to the drawing board by Parliament, the then Shadow Copyright Rapporteur wrote: 'I cannot stress enough that I think the active academic intervention in this vote has been absolutely decisive for this first success'[E7]. 4.3. Supporting amendments to the EU Copyright Directive As the result of the research and interventions of CREATe (and others), specific changes were made to the Copyright Directive prior to the vote in respect of Article 11, and subsequent to the vote in respect of Articles 5 and 13. For example, the European Parliament commissioned study [O5] was presented to the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) on 7 December 2017 [E2]. Its concerns that the reform would give big media players the power to monetize their content online (at a cost to the circulation of news) were reflected in an explicit exemption for 'hyperlinking' introduced by Parliament to the Commission draft (and further amendments that remove 'individual words or short extracts' and 'private or non-commercial uses' from the scope of the new right). For Articles 5 and 13, the European Parliament introduced later amendments that enabled the rejected draft to pass plenary votes (on 11 September 2018 and 26 March 2019 respectively). For Article 5, the scope of the text-and-data-mining exception was extended to embrace cultural heritage institutions (in line with the findings of [O4]). For Article 13, obligations were re-focused on major platforms (e.g. YouTube). In line with the findings of the underpinning research [O6], exemptions were provided for 'microenterprises and small-sized enterprises, educational or scientific repositories' under a new definition of an 'online content-sharing service provider' introduced as Article 2(6). The amended Copyright Directive was approved by the European Parliament on 26 March 2019 and the European Council on 15 April 2019. While the revised provisions remain problematic, a former MEP and Copyright Rapporteur of the Internal Market Committee confirms that, 'Prof. Kretschmer's research underpinned the case for innovation-enabling improvements' (statement [E8]). She (and other MEPs) relied upon academic evidence throughout the highly complex debate (as confirmed by transcript [E9]). Statement [E8] specifically confirms the role of the empirical evidence provided by the underpinning UofG research [O4, O5, O6] within that process: 'The importance of academic input into the copyright debate was essential due to the polarised nature of the debate and the power of those right holders' lobbies who were not supporting creators but profit. Without academic input, there would have been little counter argument particularly as the subject is complex and legalistic.' 4.4. Shaping the creative policy and practice of copyright users Based upon the underpinning research [O1, O2], CREATe's CopyrightUser.org web portal has become one of the UK's most authoritative copyright guidance sites, attracting more than 1,661,003 unique visitors since 2017 [E10]. This resource enables educators and cultural heritage practitioners to access independent copyright guidance based upon up-to-date empirical evidence. Its success has been widely recognized. For example, the European Commission commissioned the Council of Europe's European Audiovisual Observatory to carry out an independent study to identify the most significant media literacy projects carried out since 2010-CopyrightUser.org was in the top 5 for the UK in 2016 [E11]. As a direct result of engagement with CopyrightUser.org, there is evidence of changes to policy and practice within the cultural heritage sector. For instance, based upon the underpinning research [O1], Meletti was seconded to the British Film Institute (BFI) from 2017-2018. The BFI hosts the largest public searchable database dedicated to British films released in the UK. This flagship platform for the BFI's mass digitization project has received over 74 million views to date. As a result of Meletti's secondment, the BFI reappraised its copyright policy, guidance and staff training (as confirmed by statement [E12]). The BFI's Rights Database Manager testifies that, 'links to pages on Copyrightuser.org have been embedded in our internal policy and guidance documents to help provide more information and context on copyright research [] Approximately 35 members of BFI staff have used guidance [] Using Copyrightuser.org in this way helps us particularly where we are unable to give legal advice but can direct people to the resources on the website so they can gather more information about the issues'. [E12] The secondary beneficiaries of the BFI's revised copyright guidance are its members and partner organisations. These changes enable creators (e.g. filmmakers and educators) to use archive material more readily in their creative projects. For instance, in 2017 the BFI supported a pilot project to supply films to students for creative reuse. The project has since grown across the UK and Ireland and now provides 60 Higher Education Institutions with access to 39 titles for creative projects. The BFI's Rights Database Manager confirms that, 'The ongoing impact of [Meletti's] secondment and continued use of Copyrightuser.org [] has brought positive changes to the BFI for both our internal development of clearer and evidence-based copyright policies and how we communicate with partners and the public to deliver our public mission.' [E12] 5. Sources to corroborate the impact [E1] Corporate Europe Observatory Report on Copyright Directive lobbying (Opinions attributed to 'academics' (e.g. on p.11) hyperlink to the Academic Statement [E5], hosted on the CREATe website, which cites the underpinning research [O5] among the key academic contributions on p.5) [pdf available] [E2] Collated evidence: invited presentations at hearings in the European Parliament and at high-level roundtables for the European Commission (2014-2017) including confirmation of Bently and Kretschmer's presentation of the proposed press publishers' right (7 Dec 2017) [pdfs available] [E3] Letter from MEP/Rapporteur (29 January 2016), acknowledging influence of Erickson/Kretschmer report [O1] on review. [pdf available] [E4] CREATe EU Copyright Reform digital resource: https://www.create.ac.uk/policy-responses/eu-copyright-reform/ [pdf available] [E5] Academics against Press Publishers' Right Statement (10 September 2018) (voting recommendations based upon two open letters) [pdf available] [E6] Academic statement entitled 'Misinformation and Independent Enquiry' (29 June 2018) known as the 'CREATe Statement', co-authored by Kretschmer [pdf available] [E7] Email from MEP (10 July 2018) (confirms the decisive role of the academic intervention) [pdf available] [E8] Statement from former MEP and Copyright Rapporteur of the Internal Market Committee, now CEO of the Open Knowledge Foundation (June 2020) (confirms the importance of the academic intervention and the use by policymakers of the underpinning research [O4, O5, O6] [pdf available] [E9] Transcript of former MEP and Copyright Rapporteur's contribution to the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Extraordinary meeting (13 March 2017) [IMCO (2017)0313_1, 13/3/2017], (in which she relies on evidence presented in the open academic letter of 24 February 2017) [pdf available]. [E10] CopyrightUser.org has attracted 1,661,003 unique visitors since 2017 (figures confirmed by a GoAccess report on the 28 August 2020)[pdf available] [E11] Mapping of media literacy practices and actions in EU-28. European Audiovisual Observatory, Strasbourg 2016 (confirms CopyrightUser.org was in the top 5 media literacy projects in the UK in 2016 on p.379). [pdf available] [E12] Statement from the Rights Database Manager, British Film Institute (June 2020) [pdf available] Director's introduction to Final Report to AHRC: Reflecting on the extraordinary five years I spent in the Schleudersitz, the ejection seat in the cockpit of CREATe, it is obvious that foresight is not something researchers possess. But that does not mean that research in a rapidly changing world is impossible or pointless. Are creative industries becoming a subset of data intensive industries? This is a radical challenge that we did not anticipate at the conception of the CREATe project in 2012. Yet it emerged strongly from our research into the changing conditions of creative production. All online behaviour is potentially observable, and whoever controls this data infrastructure will have a stake in the creative economy that is very different from the role of earlier cultural intermediaries. This change particularly affects firms with a long tradition of exploiting back catalogues of rights but also opens opportunities for new digital entrants and for cultural memory organisations (such as archives and museums). Conventionally, content was consumed, but now these 'consumers' are playing a more active role (for example creating playlists, retweets and user-generated content) and content is targeted based on the demographics of users. CREATe research revealed the emergence of a creative ecosystem that links multiple social groups through mobile access and social media. Platforms are not just distributors, they may finance creative production. CREATe research also shows how important it is to understand the interface between copyright law and algorithms (that may predict the content served). Artificial intelligence relies on large amounts of data, and these come from human activities on platforms that are social and cultural - the traditional domain of the creative industries. For creative economy businesses and policymakers, I would highlight the following insights from our research: CREATe research demonstrates that different sectors of the creative economy face very different challenges. 'Born digital' firms behave very differently than the owners of back catalogues that are being challenged by new 'platform' intermediaries. The labour market for some primary creators has become more difficult, for example for journalists and photographers, but commercial success has always been the exception. There are continuities in the dynamics of cultural production and consumption, and the supply of creative content overall has increased. While we can no longer say that copyright law is an evidence-free zone, there remains considerable tension between the emerging empirical evidence and entrenched beliefs. Even perfectly enforced copyright law is not a safeguard against technological change, and it can be a serious obstacle to innovation. For academe, my chief lessons from the CREATe project include: Engagement with stakeholders is not a burden but an opportunity (as long as the independence of academic enquiry is acknowledged and protected). CREATe has taken great care to expose our research design and methods to scrutiny by academic peers, by industry and policy users of research. We aim to make copyright law and empirical evidence accessible to the wider society. Transparency is an insurance policy in a contested policy field. What skills are needed to investigate the digital creative economy? The capacity to conduct innovative, multidisciplinary research remains fragile. Embedding of skills needs a sustained effort and career opportunities. We need, for example, microeconomists focussing on innovation and the details of legal intervention; data developers for the analysis of new types of online data; lawyers at ease with empirical methods such as interviewing, ethnography and computer assisted content analysis. In my view, our main achievements to date include - CREATe has become a key player in a change of policy perspective. The role of copyright law in promoting creativity and innovation is now seen as open to empirical investigation, and CREATe has supplied credible and widely cited evidence, becoming recognised as a global leader in the field within a very short time. The CREATe brand is distinct and internationally acknowledged. For example the Annual Conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Association meeting hosted at the University of Glasgow in 2015 focussed for the first time on copyright, and received a wide echo. Our digital resources define a new field of enquiry, and have been used by hundreds of thousands of people from 161 countries. We developed and co-produced CopyrightEvidence.org, CopyrightUser.org (with Bournemouth University & Queen's University Belfast) and CopyrightHistory.org (with University of Cambridge). Peer production of digital resources can create an open knowledge environment that is particularly suitable for interdisciplinary fields. CREATe has demonstrated that it is possible to involve users in research design and the development of open access platforms. Copyright law does not cause famine or war, but the laws that regulate the infrastructure of the digital world affect every aspect of our lives, our cultural, social and economic development. The overlap of copyright law with data-driven policy interventions needs to be taken seriously. We are only at the beginning of an epochal change. Impact Case Study (1) Evidence for Copyright Policy *Kretschmer's research has influenced copyright reform in the UK and the EU, by inducing a shift to evidence-based standards in a highly polarised debate (dominated by the language of piracy, and "copy-right" vs "copy-left" ideologies). 1. The evidence used to support the UK copyright exceptions enacted on 1 October 2014 as part of the Implementation of the Hargreaves Review relies on several CREATe studies. Specifically, the impact assessment for the new Exception for Parody relies on the following report, also published as CREATe working paper 2013/04: K. Erickson, M. Kretschmer, D. Mendis (2013). 'Copyright and the Economic Effects of Parody: An empirical study of music videos on the YouTube platform, and an assessment of regulatory options', Independent Report for the UK Intellectual Property Office (26pp). There is a clear citation trail with multiple references in government documents. 2. Kretschmer is a leading contributor to the ongoing process of EU copyright reform. Specifically, Arts. 3 (exception for text and data mining), 11 (press publishers' right) and 13 (intermediary liability) of the Proposed Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (COM(2016) 593 final) have been amended following a European wide academic intervention led by Kretschmer: http://www.create.ac.uk/policy-responses/eu-copyright-reform/ This is still a moving target. The proposed Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market is at the Committee Stage but already there is a clear citation trail with multiple references in official documents and hearings. Impact Case Study (2) CopyrightUser.org - Improving the capacity of creative entrepreneurs, cultural heritage practitioners and educators to make decisions about exploitation and re-use of cultural materials.CREATe's CopyrightUser.org portal has become the UK's most visited copyright guidance site (with 500,000 unique users since launch in March 2014). We are seeking to enable the creative sector to develop a much wider range of behavioural optionsrelating to copyright: we do this by understanding creators, entrepreneurs, educators and consumers as 'users' of copyright. Small creative firms often describe a tension between 'exploring' new original ideas and 'exploiting' the ideas and content of others. Cultural heritage practitioners involved in digitisation projects face challenges posed by rights clearance. Teachers are often unsure about what materials they can use in the classroom. Decisions are influenced heavily by perceptions - and often misconceptions - around copyright law. CopyrightUser.org responds to the need of creative, cultural, and education sectors for independent, authoritative and accessible copyright guidance. Prior to this initiative, media professionals, cultural heritage practitioners, teachers and students, and member of the public looking for copyright guidance could only find either technical and complex information provided by the government, or 'anti-piracy' campaigns conducted by industry organisations. The case study demonstrates take-up of the CopyrightUser.org portal and identifies the pathways to behavioural change. The research councils took a risk when they launched the call for a Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy (that became CREATe), and invited a group of interdisciplinary researchers to plough a contested field. Yet within less than four years, the UK was seen as a pioneer for the analysis of copyright law from an innovation perspective. Copyright law governs the use of a wide range of cultural materials. In the digital environment, it is increasingly difficult to know whether these materials can be used, and how permissions should be sought. UofG-led researchers have informed and coordinated an academic response to proposed European Union (EU) copyright legislation-the first time an evidence-led perspective has played a part in this legislative process. In an effort to better understand the needs of copyright 'users', empirical research has also led to the development of the UK's most visited copyright guidance website. Research findings and related resources have informed policy makers and shaped the professional practice of the creative sector workers, significantly enabling digital innovation. This is documented here: https://www.create.ac.uk/policy-responses/eu-copyright-reform/ In the digital environment, copyright law has become an increasingly important issue. Every activity on a mobile phone, computer or network involves acts of copying. Copyright law has effects that go far beyond regulating the behaviour of competitors in the same industry sector-such as protecting a publisher against a re-publisher. Understanding copyright law as a tool of innovation policy requires a new approach that should feed into policy making. The change in perspective advocated by the underpinning research-from protecting and rewarding rightholders to facilitating innovation-is set within the context of CREATe, the UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre hosted by the UofG School of Law (funded as an RCUK Centre by AHRC/EPSRC/ ESRC from 2012-2017 and as part of the AHRC Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre from 2018-2023).
First Year Of Impact 2015
Sector Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
Impact Types Cultural

Economic

Policy & public services
 
Description Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: copyright and patents - a response by the CREATe Centre
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/artificial-intelligence-and-ip-copyright-and-patents/art...
 
Description CREATe Appointment to Ofcom Content Board Regulating UK-licensed broadcast and video on-demand content, in line with the Broadcasting Code.
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact Philip Schlesinger's work in CREATe fed into his role as Member for Scotland of the Ofcom Content Board (2014-2018) during which period he was involved in regulating UK-licensed broadcast and video on-demand content, in line with the Broadcasting Code.
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2014/10/16/create-appointment-to-ofcom-content-board/
 
Description Channel 4: Streaming on the World Stage? Competing in the Changing Media Landscape
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/up-next-the-governments-vision-for-the-broadcasting-secto...
 
Description Cornwell J; Empirical research project into IP litigation in Scotland being cited in calls by the Scottish IP profession to reform Court of Session IP procedures
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.lawscot.org.uk/members/journal/issues/vol-66-issue-02/the-scottish-ip-court-the-case-for...
 
Description DCMS Committee report 'Economics of Music Streaming' (Second Report of Session 2021-22,
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://committees.parliament.uk/work/646/economics-of-music-streaming/publications/
 
Description European Copyright Society - Comment on Copyright and the Digital Services Act Proposal (January 2022)
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://europeancopyrightsociety.org/opinions/
 
Description Four citations of 2020 Barr/Kretschmer evidence submission in July 2021 to the DCMS Parliamentary Inquiry by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee into 'The economics of music streaming
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/15406/html/
 
Description Open letter to the European Commission and the relevant authorities of Member States of the European Union, "Use-it-or-lose-it": an historic opportunity to achieve better copyright outcomes for creators - will it go to waste? (M. Kretschmer with R. Giblin, U. Furgal
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/reversion-rights-resource-page/
 
Description ReCreating Europe Policy Recommendations for EU Policy Makers (20 September 2022)
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
 
Description Significant player in European Copyright policy, with citations by BBC, Spiegel and Australian, German and Polish broadcasters. https://www.create.ac.uk/policy-responses/eu-copyright-reform/
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/policy-responses/eu-copyright-reform/
 
Description The Re-Intermediation of the Music Industries Value Chain: Market Definition, Streaming Gatekeepers and the Control of Data, Submission by the CREATe Centre to Competition and Market Authority (CMA) Consultation on Music and Streaming Market market study (February 2022)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-launches-probe-into-music-streaming-market
 
Description Written submission of evidence to DCMS inquiry into the Future of Public Service Broadcasting: Public Service Broadcasting, Streaming Services and the Future for "Terms of Trade" Kenneth Barr, Martin Kretschmer and Philip Schlesinger)
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CREATe-submission-to-the-future-of-PSB-inquiry.p...
 
Description ESRC Festival of Social Science Open Innovation Design Jam
Amount £800 (GBP)
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2016 
End 11/2016
 
Description Impact Acceleration Top Up (BREXIT)
Amount £1,880 (GBP)
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2017 
End 04/2017
 
Description Leverhulme Fellowship - Intellectual Property and Criminalisation: An Historical Perspective
Amount £90,000 (GBP)
Organisation The Leverhulme Trust 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2017 
End 12/2020
 
Description Leverhulme Fellowship - Intellectual Property and Criminalisation: An Historical Perspective
Amount £70,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Glasgow 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2017 
End 12/2020
 
Description Reclaiming lost cultural value for authors and the public
Amount £23,000 (GBP)
Organisation Australian Research Council 
Sector Public
Country Australia
Start  
 
Description Unlocking co-creative possibilities: CREATe follow-on engagement with UK creative economy stakeholders to improve copyright practice and policy
Amount £161,731 (GBP)
Funding ID AHRC Reference: AH/P013341/1 
Organisation Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2017 
End 07/2018
 
Title CDSM EU Directive resource 
Description The Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) entered into force on 7 June 2019 (20 days after publication in the Official Journal of the European Union). It must now be transposed by Member States into national law by 7 June 2021. The Directive is a complex piece of legislation, 34 pages long. The most contested Article 17 is introduced by 11 recitals (61-71) and covers in 10 dense sections new obligations by "online content-sharing service providers", a new class of services that communicate to the public copyright content uploaded by their users. It is likely that we'll see widely diverging implementations, and decades of references to the Court of Justice of the European Union, which is already suffering from copyright overload. This resource, developed in collaboration with reCreating Europe (an EU H2020 project), offers an independent academic perspective on the implementation of the directive, continuing previous work on the legislative process. 
Type Of Material Technology assay or reagent 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact This resource has been supported by EU H2020 grant "reCreating Europe: Rethinking digital copyright law for a culturally diverse, accessible, creative Europe" (reference no. 870626) and Kretschmer's Weizenbaum fellowship at Humboldt University and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. Editors: Ula Furgal, Martin Kretschmer, João Pedro Quintais Contributors: Roberto Caso, Giulia Dore, Martin Husovec (roundtable), Peter Mézei, Giulia Priora Design and dissemination: Dietmar Aumann (map), Pete Bennett, Kerry Patterson Suggested citation: EU Copyright Reform: Evidence on the Implementation of the Copyright in Digital Single Market Directive (Directive (EU) 2019/790) CREATe Centre: University of Glasgow & reCreating Europe https://www.create.ac.uk/cdsm-implementation-resource-page/ Please include the date when the resource was accessed. 
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/cdsm-implementation-resource-page/
 
Title Copyright Evidence 
Description Copyright Evidence is a digital resource developed by CREATe which fully categorizes almost all the existing empirical studies on copyright in an attempt to inform policy interventions based on rigorous evidence. Among others, the evidence is catalogued by country, industry and research method, offering an in depth exposition of the existing findings. The evidence from empirical studies can be complemented with new results from CREATe databases related to online media behaviour (OMeBa), litigation cases (Litigation Explorer) and real-time infringement (IPWatchr). 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2016 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact CREATe supported the 6th edition of the EUhackathon which took place in Brussels on November 15-16, 2016. The event was organised by N-square Consulting and was sponsored by Google, Facebook, and Mozilla. The EUhackathon revolved around visualising copyright evidence to help inform policy debate and to better support decision making processes. The goal was to combine data and academic research from various sources to raise awareness and encourage debate around the issue of copyright. Participants mined and visualised the data in CREATe's Copyright Evidence Wiki which contains over 600 empirical studies on copyright. To help additional end users to tap into the wealth of data available in the Copyright Evidence Wiki, a user guidance has been now been published. 
URL http://www.copyrightevidence.org/evidence-wiki/index.php/Copyright_Evidence
 
Title Copyright Evidence Portal 
Description It gives access to the world's current knowledge about copyright law and its effects - both as a data-minable Wiki catalogue and through visualizations. 
Type Of Material Technology assay or reagent 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The Portal was publicly launched at BEYOND 2020, a conference that brings together thinkers, makers, investors and researchers across the creative industries to explore the relationship between creative research and business innovation. During the session 'Text and Data Mining of Copyright Evidence: Vizualisation R&D and Deep Dive by CREATe', Amy Thomas, Bartolomeo Meletti, Kris Erickson and Martin Kretschmer presented the new Portal and showcased its potential by answering live questions with the Copyright Evidence Wiki and the new Evidence Viz tool. 
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2021/01/22/beyond-2020-the-launch-of-the-copyright-evidence-portal/
 
Title Copyright History 
Description Primary Sources on Copyright is a digital archive of primary sources on copyright from the invention of the printing press (c. 1450) to the Berne Convention (1886) and beyond. The UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded the initial phase (completed in 2008) focusing on key materials from Renaissance Italy (Venice, Rome), France, the German speaking countries, Britain and the United States. For each of the thirteen geographical zones/jurisdictions represented within the resource, a national editor has taken responsibility for selecting, sourcing, transcribing, translating and commenting documents. These include privileges, statutes, judicial decisions, contracts and materials relating to legislative history, but also contemporary letters, essays, treatises and artefacts. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2008 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The Spanish section of the archive, and the new database design were re-launched on 25 June 2012, as part of the annual conference of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP). On 27 March 2015, we opened the Dutch section of the archive, and introduced a new look of the homepage and navigation, as part of the symposium Copyright History and Policy at CREATe Centre, University of Glasgow. 
URL http://www.copyrighthistory.org/
 
Title Copyright User 
Description Copyright User is a multimedia resource aimed at helping creators, media professionals and the general public understand copyright. A joint collaboration between CREATe and Bournemouth University, Copyright User consists of videos, interactive tools, subject resources, and FAQs. The resources are meant for everyone who uses copyright: musicians, filmmakers, performers, writers, visual artists or interactive developers. We inform creators how to protect their work, how to license and exploit it, and how to legally re-use the work of others. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2014 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Copyright User has been recognised by AHRC as a valuable resource on their website (http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/research/casestudies/online-portal-providing-guidance-to-copyright-law/) and also through their Headquarters via Poster stands. 
URL http://copyrightuser.org/
 
Title OMeBa (Online Media Behaviour analytics) 
Description OMeBa (Online Media Behaviour analytics) is a user-friendly data tool, which allows users to download and analyse the Ofcom/IPO surveys on infringement, online access and consumption behaviour in the UK. In 2012, the UK's communications regulator (Ofcom) and the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) with the market research company Kantar designed a unique survey that has been repeated in six waves (last in spring 2016). Identifying a need in the academic, policy and industry communities for direct access and easy readability of data in this area, CREATe developed a user-friendly tool, OMeBa, which not only allows users to consistently investigate trends from all six waves but also to perform some interesting cross tabulations, while the results are richly visualised. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2016 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact A CREATe workshop on Online Copyright Infringement (OCI) was held at the Digital Catapult on 28th November. Representatives from CREATe, Ofcom, IPO/ and Kantar attended the event which aimed to maximise the use and benefits from the OCI surveys, offer suggestions for improvements and examine potential international collaborations using the UK case as a model. The expected outcomes were: 1) the creation of an online page with all the OCI resources in one place (e.g. data from all waves, OMeBa tool, Deep Dive and other documents, etc); 2) the writing of an MoU with agreed points and actions; 3) the agreement of organising future meetings to guarantee sustainability. 
URL http://create.ac.uk/omeba/
 
Title Digitising the Edwin Morgan Scrapbooks Project 
Description  
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2017 
Provided To Others? Yes  
 
Description CREATe Industry Fellows 
Organisation British Film Institute (BFI)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution CREATe has appointed Industry Fellows in a scheme established to further develop and deepen connections between CREATe and its industrial partners and stakeholders. The four Industry Fellows (Emma Barraclough, Richard Paterson, Jeremy Silver and Bob Last) have worked in collaboration with CREATe over a period of several months. CREATE disseminates their outputs. The call for participation required applicants to submit a short project proposal that involved a reflection on and analysis of a topic of pressing importance or of future significance for the creative economy.
Collaborator Contribution Emma Barraclough is a business and legal journalist. She spent more than a decade as a writer and editor at Managing IP, a leading journal for intellectual property owners, users and their lawyers, including three years as the magazine's Asia editor in Hong Kong. She has a background in politics and Chinese studies and qualified as a solicitor before beginning her career in legal publishing. She recently completed an MA in Globalisation and Multinational Corporations at SOAS. Academic research has traditional ways of dissemination, such as research journals and academic conferences, avenues which are not readily accessible to the general public or even strategic stakeholders such as industry groups and policy makers. Emma brings to the fellowship a wealth of experience in trade journalism. She will act as a bridge between academia and industry by applying her journalistic skills to bring academic research to a wider readership. The fellowship will also provide a wider visibility to CREATe research through industry journals as well as other specialist dissemination outlets (although more mainstream than academic publications). Richard Paterson is currently Head of Research and Scholarship at the BFI responsible for developing the BFI's research collaborations with universities as well as the development of much of the BFI's policy work in relation to IPR, broadcasting and new media. He has published widely in the field of film and television studies including many articles based on a pioneering longitudinal study on careers and creativity in the television industry - the Industry Tracking Study - funded by the ESRC in the late 1990s. Richard's contribution entitled Modelling the Evolution of the TV Drama production sector in the UK will extend and develop his earlier work, involving an analysis of the evolution of the independent production sector in the UK, with a specific focus on drama production companies in order to model how firms adapt their business models and operations to changing market conditions and regulatory interventions. Richard aims to identify what factors influence the success of television drama production companies, exploring why only some companies achieve sufficient scale, why some entrepreneurially-driven independent companies fail to continue to expand and the extent of differences in the profile of commissions before and after acquisition for companies focusing on drama. He'll then reflect on the policy implications. Given the acknowledged impact of the broader context and in particular regulatory changes and other interventions on the business model of these firms are there measures that might be adopted to forestall acquisition by foreign companies? Jeremy Silver is an entrepreneur, author and strategic advisor. He is a member of the UK Creative industries Council. He is Chairman of MusicGlue and SupaPass. He was Executive Chairman of Semetric (recently acquired by Apple). He is advisor to InnovateUK, Bridgeman Art Library and Growth Intelligence. He was a strategic advisor to Shazam. He was CEO of Sibelius Software (acquired by Avid) and Worldwide Vice-President of New Media for EMI Group in Los Angeles. His book "Digital Medieval: the first twenty years of music on the web and the Next Twenty" is available in paperback and electronically. Variants of so-called block-chain technology have been the subject of much discussion recently as a potential new enabler of "transparent, equitable and non-discriminatory" transactions in the music industry. Jeremy is inquiring into whether the technology presents an opportunity to solve several of the music industry's challenges, offering a new business model that is better than subscription, a means to produce a publicly accessible global repertoire database that would contain both publishing and recording rights data and be updated regularly and accurately, and a new means of music discovery that would allow consumers to navigate music creatively and intuitively. Jeremy will explore in a series of interviews with key technology and business stakeholders the latest thinking surrounding block-chain technologies, considering business model implications, rights, IP and licensing issues associated with its potential adoption by the music industry. Furthermore, he will compare block-chain with existing market alternatives and seek to identify challenges associated with its adoption by the music industry. In May 2016, CREATe sponsored the Music Ally event 'Blockchain Music Without The Middlemen' which served as the launch for Jeremy's "Blockchain or the chaingang?" report - the first ever in-depth report on what blockchain really means for the music industry. The event also provided a forum to help build a practical consensus around the next steps to enable the industry to take full advantage of blockchain technologies. Bob Last has vast experience in the creative industries, starting in the business as an independent record label owner, producer and manager. He subsequently produced feature films and documentaries, including Sylvain Chomet's multi award-winning and Oscar-nominated The Illusionist, Terence Davies's critically-acclaimed Sunset Song, and BAFTA-winning children's animated series OOglies. For a decade he has been actively engaged with public policy issues that impact on creative businesses and was Chair of the Board of Cultural Enterprise Office from 2009-2014. His report was published under the auspices of CREATe's Industrial Fellowship scheme.Bob authored Connecting creativity, value and money. Bob undertook the research for this paper when he chaired the CEO Board, and was then particularly interested in the question of access to finance for those engaged in creative work. The study itself, financed by the Scottish Government, mutated in the course of investigation to become an analysis of the tensions between economic and aesthetic calculations made by those working across a range of art forms and evolved into an argument for rethinking the bases of creative industries policy. The paper was published in July 2016 in collaboration with the Cultural Enterprise Office (CEO).
Impact CREATe Working Paper 2017/02 - The competition discourse in British broadcasting policy (http://www.create.ac.uk/publications/the-competition-discourse-in-british-broadcasting-policy/) CREATe Working Paper 2016/10 - Connecting creativity, value and money (http://www.create.ac.uk/publications/connecting-creativity-value-and-money/) CREATe Working Paper 2016/05 - Blockchain or the Chaingang? Challenges, opportunities and hype: the music industry and blockchain technologies (http://www.create.ac.uk/publications/blockchain-or-the-chaingang-challenges-opportunities-and-hype-the-music-industry-and-blockchain-technologies/) CREATe blog post 07/2016 - Why evidence and experts matter? CREATe Industry Fellow Emma Barraclough blogs on @ManagingIP (http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2016/07/04/why-evidence-and-experts-matter-create-industry-fellow-emma-barraclough-blogs-on-managingip/)
Start Year 2016
 
Description CREATe Industry Fellows 
Organisation Cultural Enterprise Office
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution CREATe has appointed Industry Fellows in a scheme established to further develop and deepen connections between CREATe and its industrial partners and stakeholders. The four Industry Fellows (Emma Barraclough, Richard Paterson, Jeremy Silver and Bob Last) have worked in collaboration with CREATe over a period of several months. CREATE disseminates their outputs. The call for participation required applicants to submit a short project proposal that involved a reflection on and analysis of a topic of pressing importance or of future significance for the creative economy.
Collaborator Contribution Emma Barraclough is a business and legal journalist. She spent more than a decade as a writer and editor at Managing IP, a leading journal for intellectual property owners, users and their lawyers, including three years as the magazine's Asia editor in Hong Kong. She has a background in politics and Chinese studies and qualified as a solicitor before beginning her career in legal publishing. She recently completed an MA in Globalisation and Multinational Corporations at SOAS. Academic research has traditional ways of dissemination, such as research journals and academic conferences, avenues which are not readily accessible to the general public or even strategic stakeholders such as industry groups and policy makers. Emma brings to the fellowship a wealth of experience in trade journalism. She will act as a bridge between academia and industry by applying her journalistic skills to bring academic research to a wider readership. The fellowship will also provide a wider visibility to CREATe research through industry journals as well as other specialist dissemination outlets (although more mainstream than academic publications). Richard Paterson is currently Head of Research and Scholarship at the BFI responsible for developing the BFI's research collaborations with universities as well as the development of much of the BFI's policy work in relation to IPR, broadcasting and new media. He has published widely in the field of film and television studies including many articles based on a pioneering longitudinal study on careers and creativity in the television industry - the Industry Tracking Study - funded by the ESRC in the late 1990s. Richard's contribution entitled Modelling the Evolution of the TV Drama production sector in the UK will extend and develop his earlier work, involving an analysis of the evolution of the independent production sector in the UK, with a specific focus on drama production companies in order to model how firms adapt their business models and operations to changing market conditions and regulatory interventions. Richard aims to identify what factors influence the success of television drama production companies, exploring why only some companies achieve sufficient scale, why some entrepreneurially-driven independent companies fail to continue to expand and the extent of differences in the profile of commissions before and after acquisition for companies focusing on drama. He'll then reflect on the policy implications. Given the acknowledged impact of the broader context and in particular regulatory changes and other interventions on the business model of these firms are there measures that might be adopted to forestall acquisition by foreign companies? Jeremy Silver is an entrepreneur, author and strategic advisor. He is a member of the UK Creative industries Council. He is Chairman of MusicGlue and SupaPass. He was Executive Chairman of Semetric (recently acquired by Apple). He is advisor to InnovateUK, Bridgeman Art Library and Growth Intelligence. He was a strategic advisor to Shazam. He was CEO of Sibelius Software (acquired by Avid) and Worldwide Vice-President of New Media for EMI Group in Los Angeles. His book "Digital Medieval: the first twenty years of music on the web and the Next Twenty" is available in paperback and electronically. Variants of so-called block-chain technology have been the subject of much discussion recently as a potential new enabler of "transparent, equitable and non-discriminatory" transactions in the music industry. Jeremy is inquiring into whether the technology presents an opportunity to solve several of the music industry's challenges, offering a new business model that is better than subscription, a means to produce a publicly accessible global repertoire database that would contain both publishing and recording rights data and be updated regularly and accurately, and a new means of music discovery that would allow consumers to navigate music creatively and intuitively. Jeremy will explore in a series of interviews with key technology and business stakeholders the latest thinking surrounding block-chain technologies, considering business model implications, rights, IP and licensing issues associated with its potential adoption by the music industry. Furthermore, he will compare block-chain with existing market alternatives and seek to identify challenges associated with its adoption by the music industry. In May 2016, CREATe sponsored the Music Ally event 'Blockchain Music Without The Middlemen' which served as the launch for Jeremy's "Blockchain or the chaingang?" report - the first ever in-depth report on what blockchain really means for the music industry. The event also provided a forum to help build a practical consensus around the next steps to enable the industry to take full advantage of blockchain technologies. Bob Last has vast experience in the creative industries, starting in the business as an independent record label owner, producer and manager. He subsequently produced feature films and documentaries, including Sylvain Chomet's multi award-winning and Oscar-nominated The Illusionist, Terence Davies's critically-acclaimed Sunset Song, and BAFTA-winning children's animated series OOglies. For a decade he has been actively engaged with public policy issues that impact on creative businesses and was Chair of the Board of Cultural Enterprise Office from 2009-2014. His report was published under the auspices of CREATe's Industrial Fellowship scheme.Bob authored Connecting creativity, value and money. Bob undertook the research for this paper when he chaired the CEO Board, and was then particularly interested in the question of access to finance for those engaged in creative work. The study itself, financed by the Scottish Government, mutated in the course of investigation to become an analysis of the tensions between economic and aesthetic calculations made by those working across a range of art forms and evolved into an argument for rethinking the bases of creative industries policy. The paper was published in July 2016 in collaboration with the Cultural Enterprise Office (CEO).
Impact CREATe Working Paper 2017/02 - The competition discourse in British broadcasting policy (http://www.create.ac.uk/publications/the-competition-discourse-in-british-broadcasting-policy/) CREATe Working Paper 2016/10 - Connecting creativity, value and money (http://www.create.ac.uk/publications/connecting-creativity-value-and-money/) CREATe Working Paper 2016/05 - Blockchain or the Chaingang? Challenges, opportunities and hype: the music industry and blockchain technologies (http://www.create.ac.uk/publications/blockchain-or-the-chaingang-challenges-opportunities-and-hype-the-music-industry-and-blockchain-technologies/) CREATe blog post 07/2016 - Why evidence and experts matter? CREATe Industry Fellow Emma Barraclough blogs on @ManagingIP (http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2016/07/04/why-evidence-and-experts-matter-create-industry-fellow-emma-barraclough-blogs-on-managingip/)
Start Year 2016
 
Description CREATe Industry Fellows 
Organisation Digital Catapult
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution CREATe has appointed Industry Fellows in a scheme established to further develop and deepen connections between CREATe and its industrial partners and stakeholders. The four Industry Fellows (Emma Barraclough, Richard Paterson, Jeremy Silver and Bob Last) have worked in collaboration with CREATe over a period of several months. CREATE disseminates their outputs. The call for participation required applicants to submit a short project proposal that involved a reflection on and analysis of a topic of pressing importance or of future significance for the creative economy.
Collaborator Contribution Emma Barraclough is a business and legal journalist. She spent more than a decade as a writer and editor at Managing IP, a leading journal for intellectual property owners, users and their lawyers, including three years as the magazine's Asia editor in Hong Kong. She has a background in politics and Chinese studies and qualified as a solicitor before beginning her career in legal publishing. She recently completed an MA in Globalisation and Multinational Corporations at SOAS. Academic research has traditional ways of dissemination, such as research journals and academic conferences, avenues which are not readily accessible to the general public or even strategic stakeholders such as industry groups and policy makers. Emma brings to the fellowship a wealth of experience in trade journalism. She will act as a bridge between academia and industry by applying her journalistic skills to bring academic research to a wider readership. The fellowship will also provide a wider visibility to CREATe research through industry journals as well as other specialist dissemination outlets (although more mainstream than academic publications). Richard Paterson is currently Head of Research and Scholarship at the BFI responsible for developing the BFI's research collaborations with universities as well as the development of much of the BFI's policy work in relation to IPR, broadcasting and new media. He has published widely in the field of film and television studies including many articles based on a pioneering longitudinal study on careers and creativity in the television industry - the Industry Tracking Study - funded by the ESRC in the late 1990s. Richard's contribution entitled Modelling the Evolution of the TV Drama production sector in the UK will extend and develop his earlier work, involving an analysis of the evolution of the independent production sector in the UK, with a specific focus on drama production companies in order to model how firms adapt their business models and operations to changing market conditions and regulatory interventions. Richard aims to identify what factors influence the success of television drama production companies, exploring why only some companies achieve sufficient scale, why some entrepreneurially-driven independent companies fail to continue to expand and the extent of differences in the profile of commissions before and after acquisition for companies focusing on drama. He'll then reflect on the policy implications. Given the acknowledged impact of the broader context and in particular regulatory changes and other interventions on the business model of these firms are there measures that might be adopted to forestall acquisition by foreign companies? Jeremy Silver is an entrepreneur, author and strategic advisor. He is a member of the UK Creative industries Council. He is Chairman of MusicGlue and SupaPass. He was Executive Chairman of Semetric (recently acquired by Apple). He is advisor to InnovateUK, Bridgeman Art Library and Growth Intelligence. He was a strategic advisor to Shazam. He was CEO of Sibelius Software (acquired by Avid) and Worldwide Vice-President of New Media for EMI Group in Los Angeles. His book "Digital Medieval: the first twenty years of music on the web and the Next Twenty" is available in paperback and electronically. Variants of so-called block-chain technology have been the subject of much discussion recently as a potential new enabler of "transparent, equitable and non-discriminatory" transactions in the music industry. Jeremy is inquiring into whether the technology presents an opportunity to solve several of the music industry's challenges, offering a new business model that is better than subscription, a means to produce a publicly accessible global repertoire database that would contain both publishing and recording rights data and be updated regularly and accurately, and a new means of music discovery that would allow consumers to navigate music creatively and intuitively. Jeremy will explore in a series of interviews with key technology and business stakeholders the latest thinking surrounding block-chain technologies, considering business model implications, rights, IP and licensing issues associated with its potential adoption by the music industry. Furthermore, he will compare block-chain with existing market alternatives and seek to identify challenges associated with its adoption by the music industry. In May 2016, CREATe sponsored the Music Ally event 'Blockchain Music Without The Middlemen' which served as the launch for Jeremy's "Blockchain or the chaingang?" report - the first ever in-depth report on what blockchain really means for the music industry. The event also provided a forum to help build a practical consensus around the next steps to enable the industry to take full advantage of blockchain technologies. Bob Last has vast experience in the creative industries, starting in the business as an independent record label owner, producer and manager. He subsequently produced feature films and documentaries, including Sylvain Chomet's multi award-winning and Oscar-nominated The Illusionist, Terence Davies's critically-acclaimed Sunset Song, and BAFTA-winning children's animated series OOglies. For a decade he has been actively engaged with public policy issues that impact on creative businesses and was Chair of the Board of Cultural Enterprise Office from 2009-2014. His report was published under the auspices of CREATe's Industrial Fellowship scheme.Bob authored Connecting creativity, value and money. Bob undertook the research for this paper when he chaired the CEO Board, and was then particularly interested in the question of access to finance for those engaged in creative work. The study itself, financed by the Scottish Government, mutated in the course of investigation to become an analysis of the tensions between economic and aesthetic calculations made by those working across a range of art forms and evolved into an argument for rethinking the bases of creative industries policy. The paper was published in July 2016 in collaboration with the Cultural Enterprise Office (CEO).
Impact CREATe Working Paper 2017/02 - The competition discourse in British broadcasting policy (http://www.create.ac.uk/publications/the-competition-discourse-in-british-broadcasting-policy/) CREATe Working Paper 2016/10 - Connecting creativity, value and money (http://www.create.ac.uk/publications/connecting-creativity-value-and-money/) CREATe Working Paper 2016/05 - Blockchain or the Chaingang? Challenges, opportunities and hype: the music industry and blockchain technologies (http://www.create.ac.uk/publications/blockchain-or-the-chaingang-challenges-opportunities-and-hype-the-music-industry-and-blockchain-technologies/) CREATe blog post 07/2016 - Why evidence and experts matter? CREATe Industry Fellow Emma Barraclough blogs on @ManagingIP (http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2016/07/04/why-evidence-and-experts-matter-create-industry-fellow-emma-barraclough-blogs-on-managingip/)
Start Year 2016
 
Description CREATe Industry Fellows 
Organisation Managing Intellectual Property
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution CREATe has appointed Industry Fellows in a scheme established to further develop and deepen connections between CREATe and its industrial partners and stakeholders. The four Industry Fellows (Emma Barraclough, Richard Paterson, Jeremy Silver and Bob Last) have worked in collaboration with CREATe over a period of several months. CREATE disseminates their outputs. The call for participation required applicants to submit a short project proposal that involved a reflection on and analysis of a topic of pressing importance or of future significance for the creative economy.
Collaborator Contribution Emma Barraclough is a business and legal journalist. She spent more than a decade as a writer and editor at Managing IP, a leading journal for intellectual property owners, users and their lawyers, including three years as the magazine's Asia editor in Hong Kong. She has a background in politics and Chinese studies and qualified as a solicitor before beginning her career in legal publishing. She recently completed an MA in Globalisation and Multinational Corporations at SOAS. Academic research has traditional ways of dissemination, such as research journals and academic conferences, avenues which are not readily accessible to the general public or even strategic stakeholders such as industry groups and policy makers. Emma brings to the fellowship a wealth of experience in trade journalism. She will act as a bridge between academia and industry by applying her journalistic skills to bring academic research to a wider readership. The fellowship will also provide a wider visibility to CREATe research through industry journals as well as other specialist dissemination outlets (although more mainstream than academic publications). Richard Paterson is currently Head of Research and Scholarship at the BFI responsible for developing the BFI's research collaborations with universities as well as the development of much of the BFI's policy work in relation to IPR, broadcasting and new media. He has published widely in the field of film and television studies including many articles based on a pioneering longitudinal study on careers and creativity in the television industry - the Industry Tracking Study - funded by the ESRC in the late 1990s. Richard's contribution entitled Modelling the Evolution of the TV Drama production sector in the UK will extend and develop his earlier work, involving an analysis of the evolution of the independent production sector in the UK, with a specific focus on drama production companies in order to model how firms adapt their business models and operations to changing market conditions and regulatory interventions. Richard aims to identify what factors influence the success of television drama production companies, exploring why only some companies achieve sufficient scale, why some entrepreneurially-driven independent companies fail to continue to expand and the extent of differences in the profile of commissions before and after acquisition for companies focusing on drama. He'll then reflect on the policy implications. Given the acknowledged impact of the broader context and in particular regulatory changes and other interventions on the business model of these firms are there measures that might be adopted to forestall acquisition by foreign companies? Jeremy Silver is an entrepreneur, author and strategic advisor. He is a member of the UK Creative industries Council. He is Chairman of MusicGlue and SupaPass. He was Executive Chairman of Semetric (recently acquired by Apple). He is advisor to InnovateUK, Bridgeman Art Library and Growth Intelligence. He was a strategic advisor to Shazam. He was CEO of Sibelius Software (acquired by Avid) and Worldwide Vice-President of New Media for EMI Group in Los Angeles. His book "Digital Medieval: the first twenty years of music on the web and the Next Twenty" is available in paperback and electronically. Variants of so-called block-chain technology have been the subject of much discussion recently as a potential new enabler of "transparent, equitable and non-discriminatory" transactions in the music industry. Jeremy is inquiring into whether the technology presents an opportunity to solve several of the music industry's challenges, offering a new business model that is better than subscription, a means to produce a publicly accessible global repertoire database that would contain both publishing and recording rights data and be updated regularly and accurately, and a new means of music discovery that would allow consumers to navigate music creatively and intuitively. Jeremy will explore in a series of interviews with key technology and business stakeholders the latest thinking surrounding block-chain technologies, considering business model implications, rights, IP and licensing issues associated with its potential adoption by the music industry. Furthermore, he will compare block-chain with existing market alternatives and seek to identify challenges associated with its adoption by the music industry. In May 2016, CREATe sponsored the Music Ally event 'Blockchain Music Without The Middlemen' which served as the launch for Jeremy's "Blockchain or the chaingang?" report - the first ever in-depth report on what blockchain really means for the music industry. The event also provided a forum to help build a practical consensus around the next steps to enable the industry to take full advantage of blockchain technologies. Bob Last has vast experience in the creative industries, starting in the business as an independent record label owner, producer and manager. He subsequently produced feature films and documentaries, including Sylvain Chomet's multi award-winning and Oscar-nominated The Illusionist, Terence Davies's critically-acclaimed Sunset Song, and BAFTA-winning children's animated series OOglies. For a decade he has been actively engaged with public policy issues that impact on creative businesses and was Chair of the Board of Cultural Enterprise Office from 2009-2014. His report was published under the auspices of CREATe's Industrial Fellowship scheme.Bob authored Connecting creativity, value and money. Bob undertook the research for this paper when he chaired the CEO Board, and was then particularly interested in the question of access to finance for those engaged in creative work. The study itself, financed by the Scottish Government, mutated in the course of investigation to become an analysis of the tensions between economic and aesthetic calculations made by those working across a range of art forms and evolved into an argument for rethinking the bases of creative industries policy. The paper was published in July 2016 in collaboration with the Cultural Enterprise Office (CEO).
Impact CREATe Working Paper 2017/02 - The competition discourse in British broadcasting policy (http://www.create.ac.uk/publications/the-competition-discourse-in-british-broadcasting-policy/) CREATe Working Paper 2016/10 - Connecting creativity, value and money (http://www.create.ac.uk/publications/connecting-creativity-value-and-money/) CREATe Working Paper 2016/05 - Blockchain or the Chaingang? Challenges, opportunities and hype: the music industry and blockchain technologies (http://www.create.ac.uk/publications/blockchain-or-the-chaingang-challenges-opportunities-and-hype-the-music-industry-and-blockchain-technologies/) CREATe blog post 07/2016 - Why evidence and experts matter? CREATe Industry Fellow Emma Barraclough blogs on @ManagingIP (http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2016/07/04/why-evidence-and-experts-matter-create-industry-fellow-emma-barraclough-blogs-on-managingip/)
Start Year 2016
 
Title IPWatchr 
Description IP Watchr and OMeBa (see above) are two analytical and visualisation-based software programs created by CREATe data developer Jesús Rodríguez Pérez (University of Glasgow). As social media becomes more integral to our lives, users are increasingly using it to share links for downloading multimedia files containing predominantly movies, television series and computer software. IP Watchr is a web based platform with an underlying software for real-time tracking of illegal downloads on social media and p2p networks. The design was derived from the question; "Is there a connection between Facebook 'likes' for a multimedia product and the number of downloads on torrent platforms for the same product?". The tool is flexible enough to accommodate other questions pertaining to this area of research. For example, it will be extended to track the behaviour of users and their social network towards downloading files, as well as to visualise the real-time data generated by these accounts and its derivatives. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2016 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact N/A 
URL http://create.ac.uk/ipwatchr
 
Description "Authors' earnings and contracts" study (Kretschmer et al 2019), cited in Guardian "Writing at risk of becoming an 'elitist' profession, report warns" (7 May 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact "Authors' earnings and contracts" study (Kretschmer et al 2019), cited in Guardian newspaper "Writing at risk of becoming an 'elitist' profession, report warns" (7 May 2019),
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/07/writing-risk-becoming-elitist-profession-alcs-report-u...
 
Description 'Closing note', Annual conference of International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP), University of Toronto (14 July 2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 'Closing note', Annual conference of International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP), University of Toronto (14 July 2017)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://cilp.law.utoronto.ca/sites/cilp.law.utoronto.ca/files/u2/ISHTIP%20Workshop-schedule.pdf
 
Description 'Creativity and the Law: Changing Perspectives': CREATe panel at Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities Annual Conference, 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact he 24th annual conference of the Association of Law, Culture and the Humanities took place this June, hosted by Emory Law School, Atlanta, Georgia (USA) on the theme of 'Unsettling Law'. The conference, hosted both in-person and on-line over two-days, comprised some 50 panels, roundtables and plenary talks, drawing an international audience of interdisciplinary scholars from law and the humanities. In the words of the conference synopsis, 'law often resides in the pull between what is settled and what is not'. Yet 'what is settled and what remains open to different futures may be contested'. CREATe researchers explored these questions in a panel about 'Creativity and the Law' spanning topics from copyright, contract and competition law and drawing on empirical, historical and interdisciplinary methodologies.

Dr Xiaoren Wang (Post-doctoral Research Associate, CREATe) opened with an empirical study of creativity in the works posted on video sharing platforms. Video sharing platforms such as YouTube, are often presented as a 'creative paradise' in opening up creativity and facilitating cultural expression. Yet, Dr Wang questioned this, by proposing an 'empirical test for creativity': she identified psychological and economic dimensions to cultural practice which act as 'anti-creative' factors, resulting in a high degree of homogeneity in videos. The research is funded by the UK Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre.

Bart Meletti (CREATe Creative Director) presented his on-going PhD research, working with documentary film makers and the creators of immersive experiences, into whether creative and cultural practice can play a role in influencing legal standards in the application of fair-dealing defences. Inspired by work in the US - 'Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put the Balance Back into Copyright' by P .Auderheide and P. Jaszi (2018, 2nd ed) - the project is being conducted in collaboration with IVIR, University of Amsterdam for the ReCreating Europe consortium. The discussion of this paper, with questions from the floor from Dr Claudy Op Den Camp, University of Bournemouth (also a presenter on a separate panel, 'Law and Film'), looked hopefully to a future where documentary film-makers might no longer be faced with industry expectations of rights-clearance by default where copyright exceptions clearly applied.

The third speaker on the panel was CREATe's competition law expert Dr Magali Eben (Lecturer in Law, CREATe). Adopting an historical analysis to competition law, Dr Eben contrasted the narrower idea of competition law as efficiency (promoted by the Chicago school of economics), to an older and broader notion of competition law as about the public interest. Opening up competition law to wider ideas of the public interest, argued Dr Eben, enables us to ask questions about the relationship between competition and creativity, for example where gatekeepers employ their market power to buy-up cultural works or control distribution in a manner that stifled creativity and access to culture, and she made reference to her work exploring current and historic case studies.

The final speaker was Dr Elena Cooper (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, CREATe), who also chaired the panel. Dr Cooper explored the relationship between copyright and contract law, and in turn law and psychology. Dr Cooper opened comparing the regulation of copyright contracts through (i) the application of general contractual doctrines (common law restraint of trade) and (ii) more recent bespoke statutory rules (e.g. Chapter 3, DSM Directive 2019/790 and the proposals in the UK Copyright (Rights of Remuneration of Musicians etc) Bill 2021). She then asked how insights from psychology - particularly the work of twentieth century theorist Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) who proposed a holistic theory of psychological good health - might enable us to re-think the relation between copyright and contract.

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an 'organisation for scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistically oriented legal scholarship'. More information about the organisation and how to join can be found here. The full programme for this year's conference can be found here.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://lawculturehumanities.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/22-06-12_LCHFinalProgramNOLINKS.pdf
 
Description 'Intellectual property and copying: The attitudes of creatives'. Paper presented to the British Academy of Management, Belfast, 9-11 September 2014. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact conference paper presented to the British Academy of Managment, Belfast to present research findings
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL https://www.bam.ac.uk/sites/bam.ac.uk/files/BAM2014%20TRACK%20SCHEDULE.pdf
 
Description 'Scotland's sustainable media future' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Philip Schlesinger Co-chair and co-organiser, 'Scotland's sustainable media future'. Co-introduced and concluded the workshop. Chaired the opening session on 'Digital platforms: regulation in the public interest', in which presented 'The British road to platform regulation: post-Brexit manoeuvres', Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 9 June 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/news/headline_889293_en.html
 
Description 'The neo-regulation of internet platforms: the British model considered' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Invited paper, 'The neo-regulation of internet platforms: the British model considered', Philip Schlesinger presentation online to the Digital Activities Working Group, Paris Dauphine University, 13 December 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description 'The post-public sphere: Europe, war and regulation', VII Congress on 'Communication, Journalism and Public Space' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited keynote lecture on 'The post-public sphere: Europe, war and regulation', VII Congress on 'Communication, Journalism and Public Space', Coimbra, Portugal, 13-15 July 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description 'Up Your IP' Blogs 1. ICC (2014). 'Digital dialogues with theatre'. 2. ICC (2014). 'Make your assets sweaty' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2014/10/28/create-event-digital-dialogues-with-theatre/
Digital Dialogues was hosted 9 September 2014 by the University of St Andrews Institute for Capitalising on Creativity (ICC) in collaboration with FST, with additional funding from CREATe. The event focussed on the implications for IP brought about by theatres' increasing adoption of digital activities such as downloading, streaming and marketing, and their impact on specific industry participants including producers, writers, performers, composers, marketers, and audiences. 45 theatre and dance company representatives attended at the Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh.


https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/icc/research/grantprojects/capitalisingoncreativityesrc/knowledgetransferpartnershipsktps/intellectualpropertymanagement/#gamesblog

ICC held three workshops providing strategic and legal advice on everyday IP issues. Each event focussed on a different sector
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description (author remuneration 5/07/2016; unused works 5/09/2016) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Two interviews with iRights, leading German web portal (author remuneration 5/07/2016; unused works 5/09/2016)
https://irights.info/artikel/martin-kretschmer-autoren-sollten-gesetzliche-verguetungsrechte-begruessen/27620
https://irights.info/artikel/martin-kretschmer-niemand-hat-etwas-davon-wenn-werke-nicht-genutzt-werden-koennen/27800
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description 19th International Conference on Cultural Economics 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation of papers by Professor Ruth Towse at the 19th International Conference on Cultural Economics, presented by the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI). The Conference will be held in Valladolid, Spain

The ACEI 2016 Conference - providing a forum for scientific discussion on cultural economics, bringing together scholars and professionals and practitioners to develop a fruitful dialogue between theory and practice.

http://www.acei2016.uva.es/event_detail/3433/detail/19th-international-conference-on-cultural-economics.html
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2016/11/24/a-future-for-the-creative-economy/
 
Description ALT Special Interest Group - Copyright and Online Learning (24 November 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On 24 November 2020, Bartolomeo Meletti was invited to join the newly established Association for Learning Technology (ALT) Special Interest Group 'Copyright and Online Learning'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.alt.ac.uk/groups/special-interest-groups/copyright-and-online-learning-sig
 
Description Advisory Board for the project 'Do same language subtitles help children learn to read?' (January 2023) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Bartolomeo Meletti was invited to join the Advisory Board for the project 'Do same language subtitles help children learn to read?', led by Royal Holloway, University of London, and the University of Nottingham, and funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Art and Modern Copyright' shortlisted for Peter Birks Prizes for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We are delighted to report that the monograph Art and Modern Copyright: The Contested Image by CREATe's Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Elena Cooper has been shortlisted for the Peter Birks Prizes for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, to be awarded by the Society of Legal Scholars later this year. The book, the first in-depth and longitudinal account of the history of copyright relating to the visual arts, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018, and was launched shortly thereafter at the beautiful Victorian Picture Gallery, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Focussing on the UK in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (1850-1911), an important period in the making of modern copyright, the book explores the ways in which the history of copyright relating to the visual arts (painting, engraving, photography) differs from existing accounts of copyright history concerning the protection of books and literary works. Art and Modern Copyright draws on meticulous original archival work, conducted over the course of a decade, significantly expanding a doctoral thesis supervised by Professor Lionel Bently at the University of Cambridge, which was awarded a Yorke Prize by the Faculty of Law, Cambridge in 2011. As well as exploring the connections between copyright history and the scholarship of art historians, the book reflects on how the past can help us think critically about copyright today.

The book has been positively reviewed by law and humanities scholars, as well as Lord Justice Richard Arnold (UK Court of Appeal) who concludes that the "prodigious amount of archival research into artistic and legal sources" results in "a significant contribution not only to the history of copyright but also to the history and sociology of art and the history of the second half of the long 19th century more generally" (A Significant Contribution to Copyright History, JIPLP, 2019, 252-254,253). A short film about some aspects of the book, produced by Exhibition on Screen and presented by Dr Cooper at the Victorian Picture Gallery, Royal Holloway, is in progress, and due to the interruptions of the Covid-19 lock-down, is now expected to be launched in 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2020/07/13/art-and-modern-copyright-shortlisted-for-peter-birks-prizes...
 
Description BEYOND Conference (3rd December 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On 3rd December 2020, Amy Thomas, Kris Erickson, Martin Kretschmer, and Bartolomeo Meletti delivered the session 'Text and Data Mining of Copyright Evidence: Visualization R&D and Deep Dive by CREATe' at BEYOND 2020, a conference that brings together thinkers, makers, investors and researchers across the creative industries to explore the relationship between creative research and business innovation. The team officially launched the Copyright Evidence Portal, funded by the AHRC Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre (PEC).

A report of the session can be found here: https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2021/01/22/beyond-2020-the-launch-of-the-copyright-evidence-portal/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2021/01/22/beyond-2020-the-launch-of-the-copyright-evidence-portal/
 
Description BY INVITATION: "The emergence of platform regulation in the UK", CIPPM public lecture, Bournemouth (3 February 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Martin Kretschmer was invited to give the CIPPM Public Lecture in Bournemouth on 3 February 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2022/02/02/martin-kretschmer-cippm-lecture-the-emergence-of-platform-r...
 
Description BY INVITATION: Annual meeting of European Copyright Society, Non-Use and Reversion Rights, University of Amsterdam (online) (21 May 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Attended the Annual meeting of European Copyright Society, University of Amsterdam (online) (21 May 2021) 'Copyright Challenges During the Pandemic (and Beyond)'
and spoke about 'Non-Use and Reversion Rights'. Discussions followed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://europeancopyrightsocietydotorg.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/ecs-conference-2021-programme.pdf
 
Description BY INVITATION: Copyright Data Improvement in the EU - Towards Better Visibility of European Content and Broader Licensing Opportunities in the Light of New Technologies (with M. Senftleben et al.), Copyright Data seminar with European Commission (6 May 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Attended and presented at online conference on 6 May 2021 on Copyright Data Improvement in the EU - Towards Better Visibility of European Content and Broader Licensing Opportunities in the Light of New Technologies (with M. Senftleben et al.) and presented under the conference subject of 'Incentives for New Initiatives - Costs and Potential New Trade-offs in the Data Economy
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://dataandlyrics.com/documents/Copyright_Data_Improvement_Workshop_Programme.pdf
 
Description BY INVITATION: Is 'evidence-based' copyright reform possible?, KU LEUVEN Centre for IT & IP Law - imec (26 February 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited to present (26 February 2021) at the KU LEUVEN Centre for IT & IP Law - imec is 'evidence-based' copyright reform possible? Discussions followed presentations. Up to Between 50-100 scholars participated online.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description BY INVITATION: Policy Roundtable, Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam (online, 10 December 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact BY INVITATION: Towards an integrated EU media policy that facilitates an enabling environment for media freedom, Policy Roundtable, Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam (online, 10 December 2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.ivir.nl/hugenholtz-league-conference/
 
Description BY INVITATION: panel convenor of The regulation of Internet Platforms: Symposium: European Intellectual Property and its Limits, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for European Intellectual Property and Information Rights, CIPPM, Bournemouth (16 January 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The panel examined different premises and approaches in the regulation of platforms. Four perspectives were explored with Introductory paper 'Competition, Communication, Data and Intellectual Property'. Martin Kretschmer (CREATe, University of Glasgow) introduced the regulatory conundrum of platforms, and gave an overview of recent platform and digital competition enquiries.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018,2019
URL https://microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk/cippm/2019/01/16/symposium-european-intellectual-property-and-i...
 
Description Blockchain: Music without Middlemen 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Discussion about blockchain technologies for music, allowing greater transparency and efficiencies in licensing and commercial transactions and helping to commercialise the long tail. Blockchain has the potential to radically reshape the current industry. But will it restructure collecting societies, distributors, labels and publishers? Or could the Blockchain in effect take out a huge chunk of the current industry? This event cut through the hype and looked at the practical steps the music industry needs to take for potential to become a reality we can all, realistically, embrace.The event http://musically.com/event/blockchain-music-without-the-middlemen/ featured the
launch of the "Blockchain or the chaingang?" report authored by Dr Jeremy Silver, CREATe Industry Fellow

http://www.create.ac.uk/publications/blockchain-or-the-chaingang-challenges-opportunities-and-hype-the-music-industry-and-blockchain-technologies/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.create.ac.uk/publications/blockchain-or-the-chaingang-challenges-opportunities-and-hype-t...
 
Description Blog: Elena Cooper Copyright Books in Review 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 2020 and 2021 has seen the publication of a number of landmarks of intellectual property scholarship. These include 'Global Mandatory Fair Use' by Tanya Aplin and Lionel Bently, 'Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value' by Kathy Bowrey 'Drafting Copyright Exceptions' by Emily Hudson, 'Intellectual and Cultural Property' by Fiona Macmillan and 'The Color of Creatorship' by Anjali Vats. In advance of the publication of a series of book reviews (forthcoming respectively in Law Quarterly Review, Entertainment Law Review, Queen Mary Journal of IP, IP Quarterly and Social and Legal Studies), CREATe's Dr Elena Cooper draws together some of the themes raised by these important works and discussed in more detail in her individual reviews.

The full text of Dr Cooper's book reviews are forthcoming in Law Quarterly Review (Aplin and Bently, Global Mandatory Fair Use), Entertainment Law Review (Bowrey, Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value), Queen Mary Journal of IP (Hudson, Drafting Copyright Exceptions), IP Quarterly (Macmillan, Intellectual and Cultural Property) and Social and Legal Studies (Vats, The Color of Creatorship). Readers are also referred to the talks delivered by three of these authors as part of the CREATe Public Lecture series, for which related resources (lecture reports, Working Papers and/or recordings) are available on the CREATe website: Lionel Bently, Emily Hudson and Fiona Macmillan.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2021/06/16/recommendations-for-summer-reading-copyright-books-in-revie...
 
Description Bottom Up Spaces: Collaborative Networks and the Politics of Co-Working 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Guest Lecture by Prof. Bastian Lange Humboldt University Berlin

"Bottom Up Spaces: Collaborative Networks and the Politics of Co-Working", chaired by Prof. Angela McRobbie.

Venue: Goldsmiths College (University of London) Media Research Building Screen One.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
URL http://www.create.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Dec-4th-2012-Bastian-Lange-Guest-Lecture.pdf
 
Description Briefing on copyright reform for copyright working party members of the European Council organised by European Alliance for Research Excellence (EARE), 15min key note on copyright and text and data mining, Brussels (21/3/2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Briefing on copyright reform for copyright working party members of the European Council organised by European Alliance for Research Excellence (EARE), 15min key note on copyright and text and data mining, Brussels (21/3/2017)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description British Crime Historians Symposium 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Elena Cooper, CREATe Postdoctoral Researcher in Copyright Law, History and Policy will be speaking on 'Trade Marks and Crime: R v. Johnstone (HL, 2003) in Historical Perspective' at the British Crime Historians Symposium on October 9 2016.

The British Crime Historians Symposium meets every two years as a forum for discussion, debate and the presentation of research for all aspects of the history of crime, law, justice, policing, punishment and social regulation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/news-events/events/crime-symposium
 
Description By invitation: Ensuring Intellectual Property Rights in a Digital Age: The EU's New Copyright Reforms, Brussels, Policy Exchange (24 January 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact With the new reforms having potentially far-reaching consequences on copyright in the EU, this timely international symposium provided an invaluable opportunity for key stakeholders within the public and private sector to engage into the debate on future EU copyright reforms. Stakeholders discussed how the EU can ensure an effective single market in the area of copyright and strike for the right balance between the creator and consumers, the protection of right holders, while facilitating access to digital services across EU borders for citizens and businesses.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.publicpolicyexchange.co.uk/events/JA24-PP2
 
Description CREATe (2012-16), Introduction and contributions to 74pp Festival legacy book (London, Royal Society of Arts, 24/06/2016): 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact CREATe has been asking: what is the role of copyright, among alternative modes of identification, appropriation and finance? Some see copyright as salvation, some as the enemy of innovation. CREATe's research programme has been addressing this faultline.

The event featured policy debates and expert panels that explored the future of the creative economy, the interface of digital innovation and legal regulation, and in particular the role of copyright law. Attendees took part in behavioural experiments, attended workshops on fashion IP, and art forgery, and interacted with fellow online video creators in a meet-up. There was a hackathon video presentation as well as the launch of CREATe's very own tartan!

The Festival partnered with London Technology Week, (which formed a series of events taking place throughout London that celebrates and connects innovators from leading R&D centres, tech businesses, universities and specialist hubs).

On the eve of the Festival, CREATe published a legacy report titled "CREATe 2012-2016: Impact on society, industry and policy through research excellence and knowledge exchange" (edited by Kerry Patterson & Sukhpreet Singh). The full schedule for the event is available on the CREATe Festival website.http://festival.create.ac.uk/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://festival.create.ac.uk/
 
Description CREATe Early Career Researcher Camp 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact To support and encourage a community of new scholars in the digital and creative economy, CREATe will host an Early Career Research Camp on 4th & 5th May 2017. The event is open to all early career researchers, including advanced PhD students, working on creative economy and related research topics. The purpose of this event is to exchange useful knowledge gained though CREATe-affiliated projects, to impart strategies for successful career progression (both in academia and industry), and to map out and launch an affiliate research network for junior researchers.

Participants will benefit from the collective expertise of senior UK and international scholars in intellectual property law, innovation policy, economics and social science (see full list of speakers below). Registration is free and open to all early career researchers, however space is limited to 45 participants.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.create.ac.uk/camp/
 
Description CREATe PhD / Early Career Research Development Series 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact early career research development workshops in CREATe
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.create.ac.uk/resources/create-studio/
 
Description CREATe Public Lecture Series 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact CREATe organizes Public Lectures every academic semester where recognized academic, industry or civil society members are invited to address the general public on topical issues in copyright and IP. These lectures (which are video recorded and where a transcript is made available after the event) are open to the general public but places must be booked through a registration system.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2017/02/21/public-lectures-2017/
 
Description CREATe Public Lecture Series 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact CREATe 2016 public lecture series investigated topical policy issues such as EU Copyright Reform in the Brexit environment and publisher rights in the new Copyright in the Digital Single Market draft Directive.

Our PhD development workshops introduced students to a wide range of research methods and provide an opportunity to share work with peers and gain valuable feedback. Spaces are limited and booking is essential.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2016/09/23/create-events-2016/
 
Description CREATe Stall at the Glasgow Barras Market 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact "If you come down to the Barras on the 12th November, you'll spot some new stall holders out on the market. Alongside the usual Christmas bargains, researchers from the University of Glasgow will be in amongst the barras, sharing their research through a number of hands on activities. There will be demonstrations, games, exhibitions, music and film throughout the day, looking into some of the big questions about equality and change in our society. There's something for everyone, including activities for the kids, so come on down to the Gallowgate anytime from 10am to grab yersel' a bargain and find out about all of the ways that Glasgow's social scientists are uncovering how our society works, and getting out there to change it for the better! Throughout the day there will be opportunities to share your views on what's important to you, and chat to researchers about your unanswered questions.?

http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2016/11/14/talking-copyright-at-the-barras/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/socialsciences/research/esrcfestivalofsocialscience/festival2016/theba...
 
Description CREATe contributes to 'Theatre, Art and Visual Culture in The Nineteenth Century' panel at Association for Art History Conference 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The issue of copyright law is currently a focus of great interest for art historians and it certainly prompts some important questions with regard to nineteenth-century transmediality. In the discussion that followed, we wondered how the concerns about respectability that Elena described may be mapped onto the reassertion of the boundaries between the arts that is a feature of modernist discourses.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2021/05/26/create-contributes-to-theatre-art-and-visual-culture-in-the...
 
Description CREATe contributes to Interdisciplinary Roundtable 'Copyright History, Book History and Art History' at SHARP Annual Conference, July 2021 (Elena Cooper) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Law and Literature Group of the University of Muenster, Germany, hosted the annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (or SHARP) exploring the theme 'Moving Texts: From Discovery to Delivery'. Copyright history has long fallen within SHARP's remit and this year's conference was no exception. As well as a panel entitled 'Book Piracy' and two copyright history 'Research Lab' workshops for work-in-progress, the programme also included an interdisciplinary roundtable discussion about copyright history as a discipline. Convened by the historian Will Slauter, the roundtable panel comprised the book historian Ian Gadd, the art historians Katie Scott and Stephanie Delamaire, as well as two legal scholars: Oren Bracha and CREATe's Elena Cooper.

SHARP's concern with copyright history has previously focussed on books, but the roundtable at this year's conference broadened the remit of discussion, to consider the relationship not just between copyright history and book history but also copyright history and art history. The roundtable discussion addressed how scholars of different disciplines - law, art history and book history - approach the history of copyright and why they consider it to be important, the similarities and differences between histories of literary and visual copyright subject matter, as well as the potential for future interdisciplinary work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2021/09/17/create-contributes-to-interdisciplinary-roundtable-copyrigh...
 
Description CREATe contributes to the Modern Law Review Seminar: 'Legal History as a Tool of Law Reform' at The National Archives, London 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Seminar included a presentation on copyright history by CREATe's Dr Elena Cooper. CREATe, an institution expressly founded to look to the future of copyright, has always included copyright history as one strand of its research, and this institutional context informed Dr Cooper's presentation. Developing Prof. Sir John Baker's idea of a 'comparative historicist' perspective - 'comparative' work between past and present - Dr Cooper gave examples of the value of 'looking backwards before looking forwards'. Dr Cooper discussed CREATe's recent work on reversion rights published in the European Intellectual Property Review in which an historical perspective is put into conversation with contemporary comparative work (by Dr Ula Furgal) and current law reform perspectives (by Prof. Martin Kretschmer and Prof. Rebecca Giblin). Dr Cooper also discussed the ways in which legal history sometimes takes us to different ideas about copyright, some of which may seem surprising to us today, which in turn can be a 'destabilising influence' (see further Dr Cooper's monograph Art and Modern Copyright CUP, 2018).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/seminar-legal-history-as-a-tool-of-law-reform/
 
Description CREATe lecture at ARCadia and for the Institute of Art and Law 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact 'Whistler's Woman in White' through the Lens of Copyright History: CREATe lecture by Elena Cooper at ARCadia and for the Institute of Art and Law

In recent talks at the ARCadia Festival in September (Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow) and for the Institute of Art and Law in October (hosted at New College, Oxford), Elena argued that copyright history offers a new lens on this innovative exhibition.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2022/11/22/whistlers-woman-in-white-through-the-lens-of-copyright-hist...
 
Description Caucus on copyright reform, voted as one of 37 "copyright insiders" (12/10/2016) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Politico (#1 media outlet for EU policy), Caucus on copyright reform, voted as one of 37 "copyright insiders" (12/10/2016):
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.politico.eu/article/insiders-slam-commissions-copyright-plans/
 
Description Consultation by the European Commission on the Evaluation and Modernisation of the Legal Framework for the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights on behalf of CREATe (April 2016): 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact E. Cooper, M. Kretschmer, Th. Koutmeridis). Response (21pp) to the Public Consultation by the European Commission on the Evaluation and Modernisation of the Legal Framework for the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights on behalf of CREATe (April 2016):
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.create.ac.uk/policy-responses/
 
Description Copyright Awareness and Education, panellist at national Symposium (with UK IP Minister Baroness Neville Rolfe) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Copyright Awareness and Education, panellist at national Symposium (with UK IP Minister Baroness Neville Rolfe), Westminster, British Phonographic Industry (BPI) (24/05/2016)
http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2016/06/01/copyright-education-symposium-review/?relatedposts_hit=1&relatedposts_origin=9520&relatedposts_position=0
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Copyright Education Symposium 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The Copyright Education Symposium took place on 24th May 2016 at the offices of the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI) in London, bringing together an unprecedented gathering of policymakers, academics, creative industry representatives, independent consultants and information professionals. The aim of the Symposium was to explore the role that evidence and data can play in the copyright education and awareness arena, as well as to examine how evaluation of data collection, research and education initiatives might take shape in the future. The event - conceived by Scott Walker and Prof. Ruth Soetendorp - was sponsored by CREATe, ALCS, CLA, ERA, PRS for Music, the Industry Trust for IP Awareness and supported by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO).
Two papers were originally produced to inform the day:

CREATe research paper by Hayleigh Bosher, An Explorative Review of Copyright Education: Studies & Resources
Context paper by Scott Walker and Prof. Ruth Soetendorp, providing a snapshot of stakeholders' views across the UK copyright education and awareness landscape.
The event was opened by the IP Minister, Baroness Neville-Rolfe (now Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy), the PRS for Music CEO, Robert Ashcroft, and the IPO Chief Economist, Pippa Hall.

The opening was followed by the screening of a short video featuring students from University of Hertfordshire expressing their views on copyright education (below), and a series of presentations of current research and resources, including Copyright Infringement Survey (James Burke, Kantar Media), Copyright User (Bartolomeo Meletti, CREATe and BFI), BBC Copyright Aware (Matt Day, BBC), and Creative Content UK (Marianne Grant, MPAA).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.create.ac.uk/copyright-education-symposium-2016/
 
Description Copyright Evidence Wiki: Using evidence to inform policy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact PEER-REVIEWED SUBMISSION: Copyright Evidence Wiki: Using evidence to inform policy, Creative Commons Virtual Global Summit (M. Kretschmer with A. Thomas, K. Erickson, B. Meletti, 20 October 2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://ccglobalsummit2020virtual.sched.com/event/efCe
 
Description Copyright Evidence: Synthesis and Futures (17-18 October 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Bartolomeo Meletti was part of the conference committee for Copyright Evidence: Synthesis and Futures, held at the Advanced Research Centre at the University of Glasgow on 17-18 October 2022. As part of the conference activities, Bartolomeo presented the Copyright Evidence Visualisation Tool and his paper 'A Review of Empirical Evidence on Copyright Exceptions'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/copyright-evidence-synthesis-and-futures/
 
Description Copyright Reform: drafter (with M. Husovec) and coordinator of Open Letter from European Research Centres to Members of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union (24 February 2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Copyright Reform: drafter (with M. Husovec) and coordinator of Open Letter from European Research Centres to Members of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union (24 February 2017), signed by Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Centre d'Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle (CEIPI), University of Strasbourg, France; RCUK Copyright Centre (CREATe), University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK; Chair for Civil and Intellectual Property Law, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany; Center for Internet & Society (NEXA), Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain SciencesPo Paris, France; Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society & Tilburg Law and Economics Center, University of Tilburg, Netherland:
http://www.create.ac.uk/policy-responses/eu-copyright-reform/
-cited in 1709 blog (24/2/2017): http://the1709blog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/european-copyrigh-reform-open-letter.html
-cited in Heise (top five German news site) (8/3/2017): 'Zuvor hatten zahlreiche renommierte europäische Urheberrechtler unter der Ägide des Glasgower Professors Martin Kretschmer in einem offenen Brief dargelegt, dass die geplante Filterklausel und das Leistungsschutzrecht völlig neben der Spur lägen und prinzipiell überarbeitet beziehungsweise gestrichen werden müssten.'
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Copyright-Reform-Verhandlungsfuehrerin-im-EU-Parlament-spricht-sich-gegen-Leistungsschutzrecht-aus-3647186.html
-cited by Copyright for Creativity (29/3/2017): 'Leading academic copyright experts explained in a recent open letter [PDF] that 'Article 13 needs radical reform that may not be achievable through amendments within its current structure', suggesting that the best approach would be 'removing the Article from the Proposed Directive, and focusing attention on improving the procedure for 'notice and takedown''. http://copyright4creativity.eu/2017/03/29/fixcopyright-the-myth-of-the-value-gap-simply-explained/
-cited by Julia Reda in briefing paper (MEP, shadow copyright rapporteur Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive COM(2016) 593 final) (8/3/2017):
https://juliareda.eu/2017/03/comodini-report-copyright/
-cited in European Parliament extraordinary meeting of Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection discussing COM(2016) 593 final by rapporteur Catherine Stihler (following recommendations from letter on Arts. 11 & 13) (IMCO(2017)0313_1; 13/3/2017):
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/20170308IPR65624/committee-on-the-internal-market-and-consumer-protection
-cited by EDiMA press release (9/6/2017):
http://www.europeandigitalmediaassociation.org/pdfs/latest_news/Press%20release%20-%20EDiMA%20reaction%20to%20IMCO%20adoption%20of%20opinion%20on%20Copyright%20in%20a%20DSM.pdf
-cited by EFF (18/7/2017):
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/last-weeks-european-copyright-votes-show-publishers-captured-european-politics
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/20170308IPR65624/committee-on-the-internal-market-an...
 
Description Copyright User training for University of Glasgow Library (27 April 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On 27 April 2022, Bartolomeo Meletti delivered a training session on copyright and creative reuse for the University of Glasgow librarians. The session was built upon CopyrightUser.org the slides included several links to the website, offering an ad-hoc copyright toolkit for the library.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Copyright and Creation: Digitising Edwin Morgan's Scrapbooks 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Kerry Patterson, CREATe Project Officer presented her research into digitising the Edwin Morgan Scrapbooks as part of the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) Research Seminar series.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Copyright and Fair Practice in Film Education online workshops (30th June and 7th July 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact In collaboration with Learning on Screen, the University of Kent and City University of London, Bartolomeo Meletti organised two online workshops on 30th June and 7th July 2020, with a view to identifying and establishing fair practice when using protected materials for educational purposes. The workshops focused on film education and attracted 48 film academics from 32 different HE institutions in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Copyright flexibilities: mapping, explaining, empowering (21 September 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On 21 September 2022, Bartolomeo Meletti was invited to present CopyrightUser.eu at the workshop 'Copyright flexibilities: mapping, explaining, empowering', co-organised by ReCreating Europe and COMMUNIA at the University of Amsterdam.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Copyrights & Wrongs: Making a single market for digital copyright content work, Policy Event panellist (19/04/2016) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Politico (#1 media outlet for EU policy) Copyrights & Wrongs: Making a single market for digital copyright content work, Policy event panellist (19/04/2016): Panel discussion of senior policymakers and key stakeholders from the creative industries:
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.politico.eu/event/copyrights-and-wrongs-making-a-single-market-for-digital-content-work/
 
Description Court citation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact D. Mendis & M. Kretschmer (2013). 'The Treatment of Parodies under Copyright Law in Seven Jurisdictions: A comparative review of the underlying principles', An Independent Report for the UK Intellectual Property Office (112pp) [cited in CJEU reference Case C-201/13 Johan Deckmyn by referring court, 17 April 2013 and in AG Opinion, 14 May 2014]
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Creative Commons Summit (20 October 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On 20th October 2020, Amy Thomas, Kris Erickson, Martin Kretschmer, and Bartolomeo Meletti delivered the session 'Copyright Evidence Wiki: using evidence to inform policy at the Creative Commons Summit 2020: https://summit.creativecommons.org/2020-sessions-and-speakers/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://summit.creativecommons.org/2020-sessions-and-speakers/
 
Description Creative Economy Early Career Research Camp 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The Early Career Research Camp was the capstone event in the PhD and early career capacity building activities of the first phase of the RCUK-funded CREATe Centre anchored at the University of Glasgow. The two-day intensive workshop provided the opportunity to engage with emerging scholars from around the UK working on the 'creative economy' theme. The purpose of this event was twofold: to develop interdisciplinary research skills of young scholars and to map out future capacity-building and research needs for study of the UK creative economy. This event arose from CREATe's ambition to aid development of a new generation of researchers with skills to address questions relating to the future of creative production. Over the five years of its initial funded phase, CREATe has innovated and refined new formats for PhD and early career (ECR) capacity building, and this event represents application of learnings from the previous PhD and ECR training activity. For example, CREATe has previously organised focused capacity-building events on themes of integrating technology into research, socio-legal research methods and primary research with creators. In the period from January 2016 - May 2017, CREATe hosted 13 PhD training events, engaging a total of 598 participants. This workshop was led by Dr Kristofer Erickson, CREATe Lecturer in IP and Innovation, and Director of CREATe Postgraduate Research Development. Now Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds https://media.leeds.ac.uk/people/kristofer-erickson/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012,2017
URL http://www.create.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/CREATe-Capacity-Building-Report-AHRC-1.pdf
 
Description DCMS Online Media Literacy Strategy (24 June 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact On 24 June 2021, the Copyright User team was invited by the UK government Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to showcase the Copyright User work in the field of media literacy as part of the launch of the DCMS online media literacy strategy. CopyrightUser.org is the only resource listed under the category 'Understanding the legal framework and rights online' of the DCMS online media literacy resources web page: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/online-media-literacy-resources
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.gov.uk/guidance/online-media-literacy-resources
 
Description Docs Ireland panel: 'Fair Use' for Documentary Film Archive (2 July 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On 2 July 2022, Bartolomeo Meletti was invited to join the panel 'Fair Use for Documentary Film Archive', one of the industry events organised as part of the Docs Ireland film festival in Belfast.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description EU Hackathon 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "The theme of the 6th edition of the EUhackathon revolves around visualising copyright evidence to inform the policy debate and support the decision making process. The goal is to combine data and academic research from various sources to help create a clearer picture of the issues at stake in copyright, as sometimes the full story is difficult to grasp. The UK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy (CREATe), which supports this event, has set-up a Copyright Evidence Wiki containing approximately 500 studies, which facilitates data mining and the creation of visualisations. This evidence could be complemented with industry data and reports, in order to achieve a greater transparency and awareness in the area of copyright.

The challenge is to (1) create visualisations of copyright evidence based on the data sources available at the Copyright Evidence Wiki and other external resources and/or to (2) enhance the Copyright Evidence Wiki to enable others to easily create visualisations of the data available.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://2016.euhackathon.eu/
 
Description EUscreen 2022: Translating Media Pasts (8-9 December 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On 8-9 December 2022, Bartolomeo Meletti was invited to participate in the public symposium and network meeting of EUscreen in Prague. Following the event, Bartolomeo was invited to step forward as a candidate to join the EUscreen Foundation Board (elections to be held at the end of March).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Elena Cooper convenes CREATe Public Lecture Autumn 2021 series: Copyright History: 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The CREATe Online Public Lectures: Copyright History series featured Anjali Vats (Associate Professor in Law, University of Pittsburgh) (13 October 2021)
who spoke on the 'Intellectual Property Citizenship and American Racial Imaginaries'

and Kathy Bowrey (Professor in Law, UNSW, Sydney) (10 November 2021) who spoke on the 'The Society of Authors Meets Hollywood: Why authors and playwrights lost out'
Each Public lecture drew up to 100 attendees per online lecture.

Both Anjali Vats and Kathy Bowrey have recently published important monographs which draw out new aspects to the history of intellectual property. In The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race and the Making of Americans (Stanford University Press, 2019), Vats explores the relationship between US intellectual property law and racial injustice, through changing ideas of citizenship from the eighteenth century to the present day. As I argue in reviewing this work for Social and Legal Studies, whereas scholars have long recognised that only certain types of contribution 'count' for protection, the emphasis, particularly in copyright research, has been on aesthetic bias (the influence of Romantic authorship on copyright). Vats' account is radical, then, in asking direct questions about the relationship between law and social injustice, specifically racial injustice, and in being the first monograph-length study to trace the history of this relation over a longitudinal time-period.

Kathy Bowrey's Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value: Incorporating the Author (Routledge, 2020) is also an important first: the first historically grounded account of the emergence of the 'Big Media' corporates of the twentieth century (publishing, film and music). As well as providing an in-depth account of copyright history in the little explored period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bowrey's monograph innovates in placing business records, copyright transactions and marketplace norms at the centre-stage.

Both lectures demonstrated that legal history, as well as a valuable form of scholarly enquiry on its own terms, is also a powerful critical tool. In her lecture, Vats outlined her general methodological approach informed by Critical Race Theory. Interestingly, Vats sees herself as a modern lawyer, not a legal historian. Why, then, does she look to history? It seems that Vats looks to the past to trace the historical origins of the link between race and intellectual property that she sees as persisting in the law today. That this is shown to be deeply embedded in US history and the US nation-building story, makes the racial inequalities that persist in US intellectual property law today both clearer and more troubling.

Turning to the second lecture, Bowrey's focus was on a single strand of the research contained in her book: the story of the emergence of film industry in the early twentieth century, whereby the 'natural rights of the author were de-natured and diluted', and copyright's function in rewarding creative activity was 'fundamentally disrupted'.

In the extended Question and Answer session we discussed Bowrey's use of legal history as a tool of 'scrutiny': casting critical light on developments that have never been in public view (due to the emphasis on industry self-regulation and lawyers' focus on positive doctrinal law in the early twentieth century). It is by bringing to light, for the first time, legal and business records that have never been seen before, many held in private hands, that Bowrey can critically analyse the highly important yet hugely under-explored relation between copyright and power.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2021/11/25/intellectual-property-and-its-history-what-can-we-learn-fro...
 
Description Ellie Wilson reports on CREATe/BIICL conference: New empirical research on IP litigation (6 March) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Ellie Wilson reports on CREATe/BIICL conference: New empirical research on IP litigation (6 March)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/03/guest-post-createbiicl-conference_6.html
 
Description European Parliament presentation, Brussels, What is Text and Data Mining and why Europe needs it, Keynote speaker at workshop chaired by Zdzislaw Krasnodebski, MEP, rapporteur of ITRE Committee opinion on Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (COM(2016) 593 final), 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact What is Text and Data Mining and why Europe needs it, Keynote speaker at workshop chaired by Zdzislaw Krasnodebski, MEP, rapporteur of ITRE Committee opinion on Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (COM(2016) 593 final), Brussels, European Parliament (21/6/2017): http://www.scienceeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Invitation_ECR_TDM_08062017.pdf
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.scienceeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Invitation_ECR_TDM_08062017.pdf
 
Description European Parliament, presentation of commissioned study Bently & Kretschmer (2017) to Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) 7 December, 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The position of press publishers and authors & performers in the copyright directive', Study commissioned by European Parliament, Directorate General for Internal Policies, Policy Department C: Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/juri/events-workshops.html?id=20171204WKS01181
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/juri/home.htmlC
http://web.ep.streamovations.be/index.php/event/stream/171207-1500-committee-juri
Reported by Julia Reda MEP: https://juliareda.eu/2017/12/extra-news-copyright-confusion/
Reported by POLITICO Europe (7 Dec 17):
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/juri/events-workshops.html?id=20171204WKS01181
 
Description European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) in Glasgow, September 2-3, 2015. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Delegates interested in the economic, legal and political aspects of intellectual property rights explored the role of Intellectual Property (IP) in the Creative Economy, with a focus on copyright, data and the changing economics of the digital world.

http://www.epip2015.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/EPIP-Final-Full-Programme.pdf
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.epip2015.org/
 
Description Europeana Copyright Office Hours on Audiovisual Material for Education (20 May 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On 20 May 2021, Bartolomeo Meletti chaired an online session on copyright and the reuse of audiovisual material for education for Europeana.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.photoconsortium.net/copyright-office-hours-audiovisual/
 
Description Europeana Copyright Office Hours: Licensing for AR & VR (28 June 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On 28 June 2022, Bartolomeo Meletti was invited to participate as copyright expert in the Europeana Copyright Office Hours session on 'Licensing for AR & VR'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Europeana Copyright Policy Office Hours: Immersive Heritage (20 December 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On 20 December 2022, Bartolomeo Meletti, organised and conducted the Europeana Copyright Community's 'Policy office hours' session 'Best Practices in Creative Reuse for Immersive Experiences'. The session offered cultural heritage practitioners an opportunity to discuss the Code of Best Practices on Creative Reuse for Immersive Experiences.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Europeana Task Force on Audiovisual Content in Education (February 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact In February 2021, Bartolomeo Meletti was invited to join the core group of the Europeana Task Force on Audiovisual Content in Education.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://pro.europeana.eu/project/audiovisual-material-in-europeana-classroom
 
Description Europeana Task Force on Audiovisual Content in Education (February 2021-July 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact From February 2021 to July 2021, Bartolomeo Meletti was invited to join the Europeana Task Force on Audiovisual Content in Education. One of main outputs of the task force was a 'Copyright in Education FAQs' resource - https://pro.europeana.eu/project/audiovisual-material-in-europeana-classroom - also made available as a shorter Europeana Pro blog post: https://pro.europeana.eu/post/exploring-reuse-of-audiovisual-content-for-education
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://pro.europeana.eu/project/audiovisual-material-in-europeana-classroom
 
Description First Asia Pacific Workshop on Empirical Methods in Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition at National Law University, New Delhi. March 9-11 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact First Asia Pacific Workshop on Empirical Methods in Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition at National Law University, New Delhi. March 9-11

Dr Sukhpreet Singh gave two talks, one of these shared with Professor Georg von Graevenitz on Copyright Research.

Professor Graevenitz gave a separate talk on research on Trade Marks.

Participants came from around South East Asia and from universities and agencies (IP/ Competition).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description For what it's worth: explorations into early-stage IP'. Paper presented to the British Academy of Management, Belfast, 9-11 September 2014. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Paper presented to the British Academy of Management, Belfast, 9-11 September 2014.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL https://www.bam.ac.uk/sites/bam.ac.uk/files/BAM2014%20TRACK%20SCHEDULE.pdf
 
Description Future Copyright: Access all Areas? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The workshop brought together an international mix of policy makers, representatives from highly innovative companies working in the creative industries, content creators as ell as key experts and representatives from the institutions. It is organised by The Science and Innovation Network in collaboration with the Creative Industries KTN and its objective is to engage participants in a discussion focussing on two main questions:

Where does the right balance lie between 'open' and 'proprietary' approaches to copyright?
What must a Copyright Hub deliver to support innovation and growth?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
 
Description Goethe Institute Artificial Intelligence Autumn Session. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk and activities as part of the Goethe Institute Artificial Intelligence Autumn Session, that introduced artists and art researchers to AI. 30 artists and art researchers from across Europe experimented with the impact of AI on their practice. My session introduced the legal and regulatory issues that artists who works with AI face
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ser/rep/aia.html
 
Description Guest Lecture: Copyright Exceptions (19 October 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact On 19 October 2022, Bartolomeo Meletti was invited to give a guest lecture on Copyright Exceptions to the students of the Copyright in the Digital Environment LLM at the University of Glasgow.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Guest lecture at City, University of London (12 November 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact On 12th November 2020, Bartolomeo Meletti delivered an online guest lecture on Copyright ad Creative Reuse to the students of the Masters in Innovation Creativity & Leadership at Cass Business School, City, University of London. During the session, Bartolomeo used various resources from CopyrightUser.org.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.copyrightuser.org/
 
Description Guest lecture at IAAD - The Italian University for Design (Bologna, Italy, 8 January 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact On 8th January 2021, Bartolomeo Meletti delivered an online guest lecture on Copyright and Creative Reuse to the students of the Masters in Digital Interface Design at IAAD, The Italian University for Design. During the session, Bartolomeo used various resources from CopyrightUser.org.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.copyrightuser.org/
 
Description Guest post/blog Why the CJEU is learning on the job 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Interview with Managing IP (Emma Barraclough) (16/04/2016): http://www.managingip.com/Blog/3546274/Guest-post-Why-the-CJEU-is-learning-on-the-job.html
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.managingip.com/Blog/3546274/Guest-post-Why-the-CJEU-is-learning-on-the-job.html
 
Description HERA-Enterprise of Culture Conference, 11-12 June 2015, Oslo. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited presentation to the HERA-Enterprise of Culture Conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.enterpriseofculture.leeds.ac.uk/upcoming-events/interrogating-intellectual-property-right...
 
Description Hans Böckler Stiftung, cited in German national commission on the future of labour 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Hans Böckler Stiftung, cited in German national commission on the future of labour (Arbeit transformieren! Denkanstöße der Kommission >>Arbeit der Zukunft<<, Kerstin Jürgens, Reiner Hoffmann, Christina Schildmann (eds.), June 2017, pp. 70, 245, 256)
https://www.boeckler.de/61420.htm
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.boeckler.de/61420.htm
 
Description IP Dispute Resolution 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact CREATe co-organized, in association with the School of Law (University of Glasgow),  'The Annual IP Conference 2012' which took place on 10th December 2012. This year's theme is '"CREATe is co-organizing, in association with the School of Law (University of Glasgow),  'The Annual IP Conference 2012' which will take place on 10th December 2012. The theme was 'IP Dispute Resolution'

The Conference was aimed at a range of experts and students, as well as general practitioners who needed to build an awareness of dangers, opportunities and procedure for clients. It was also suitable for creative practitioners, entrepreneurs, investors, business owners/managers, marketing and business advisers and sociologists.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
URL http://www.create.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Glasgow-IP-Conference-2012-IP-Dispute-Resolution....
 
Description Innovation and IP: A dialectical view'. European Policy for Intellectual Property Conference, Glasgow, 2-3 September 2015. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact presented update and findings to the conference, which with discussions and feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://www.epip2015.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/HAB_CREATe_WP1_Innovation_IP_v.1.3.pdf
 
Description International Copyright-Literacy Event with Playful Opportunities for Practitioners and Scholars (Icepops) (8 September 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On 8 September 2022, Bartolomeo Meletti was invited to present his work on codes of best practices on creative reuse at the University of Oxford Catholic Chaplaincy, as part of the Icepops 2022 conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://copyrightliteracy.org/icepops-2022-photos-and-presentations/
 
Description International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property -ISHTIP 2016 - University of Glasgow 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact n 2016, ISHTIP will be hosted by CREATe, the RCUK Copyright Centre, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Scotland was the home of booksellers such as Alexander Donaldson who sought to resist the monopolistic practices of their established London-based rivals, in the so-called Battle of the Booksellers of the eighteenth century. The patriotic Scottish booksellers, newcomers to the trade, sold cheap reprints of books sold by the London booksellers, including those in which statutory copyright, under the Statute of Anne 1710, had expired. The London booksellers responded with a series of lawsuits culminating in Donaldson v. Becket (1774), relying inter alia on copyright at common law, against which the Scots resisted. As Donaldson expressed in petitioning the House of Commons in 1774: 'your petitioner has had to struggle with the united force of almost all the eminent booksellers of London and Westminster above one hundred of the most opulent booksellers have in their turn, been plaintiffs against your petitioner'. The resulting cases and more general debate about the nature of literary property are today remembered as a historic occasion on which the nature of copyright, as well as the more general notion of property in intangibles, was fully debated.

Taking the theme of 'resistance' as its starting point, we intend the 8th Annual Workshop to be a further occasion for the full debate of the theory and history of intellectual property!
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.ishtip.org/?p=752
 
Description Interview with BBC News (11 December 2019): Can politicians borrow from films and TV? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Interview with BBC News (11 December 2019): Can politicians borrow from films and TV?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50741594#
 
Description Interview with ResearchResearch (Eleni Courea) about implications of EU copyright reform for researchers (17/3/2017): 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Interview with ResearchResearch (Eleni Courea) about implications of EU copyright reform for researchers (17/3/2017):
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://info.researchprofessional.com/research-europe/
 
Description Interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung (20 May 2019), Das Urheberrecht verteilt Vermögen von den Lebenden zu den Toten 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung (20 May 2019), Das Urheberrecht verteilt Vermögen von den Lebenden zu den Toten increased interest.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/urheberrecht-upload-filter-martin-kretschmer-1.4451281
 
Description Interview with Wired (25 January 2020), Here's why the UK is (finally) dumping Article 13 for good 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Interview with Wired (25 January 2020), Here's why the UK is (finally) dumping Article 13 for good, https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-article-13-copyright-brexit
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-article-13-copyright-brexit
 
Description Interview with iRights online magazine "The EU would lose little if it simply rejected the directive" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact increased interest in proposed EU Copyright Directive
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://irights.info/artikel/martin-kretschmer-the-eu-would-lose-little-if-it-simply-rejected-the-di...
 
Description Interviews with The Verge, Europe's controversial 'link tax' in doubt after member states rebel (18 January 2019); The fight over Europe's internet just got even messier (23 January 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Europe's controversial 'link tax' in doubt after member states rebel (18 January 2019);
The fight over Europe's internet just got even messier (23 January 2019)

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/23/18194155/eu-copyright-laws-directive-negotiations-trilogue-deadlock
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/18/18188571/europe-copyright-directive-link-tax-article-11-13

CREATe EU Directive resource of events
https://www.create.ac.uk/policy-responses/eu-copyright-reform/
https://www.create.ac.uk/european-copyright-roundtable-how-to-implement-new-rules-for-online-platforms/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/18/18188571/europe-copyright-directive-link-tax-article-11-13
 
Description Invited keynote speaker, 'The British road to platform regulation: post-Brexit manoeuvres' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Philip Schlesinger was an Invited keynote speaker, 'The British road to platform regulation: post-Brexit manoeuvres', in the session on 'Sovereignty and the return of governance for digital platforms', Platform Governance, ICA pre-conference, Online, ICA Conference, Paris, 25-26 May 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.icahdq.org/page/PastFuture
 
Description Invited paper, 'The neo-regulation of internet platforms? The British model considered', session on 'Internet regulation: issues and challenges', 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Philip Schlesinger Invited to give a paper, 'The neo-regulation of internet platforms? The British model considered', session on 'Internet regulation: issues and challenges', The Oxford Internet Policy & Politics Conference 2023, 21 January 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://ipsonet.org/conferences/ippconference/
 
Description Invited talk - Presentation of the 9th Wave of the On Line Copyright Infringement (OCI) Tracker and the OECD report into the Impact of Counterfeiting on the UK Economy, Intellectual Property Office and The Alliance for IP, London (27 November 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation with the Intellectual Property Office and The Alliance for IP in London on the 9th Wave of the OnLine Copyright Infringement (OCI Tracker) increased interest in OMeBa (CREATe's online Media and Behaviour analytics tool http://copyrightcentral.arts.gla.ac.uk/omeba/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Keynote on Copyright Reform at the German Ministry of Justice 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Keynote on copyright reform at the German Ministry of Justice; panel discussion with Justice Minister Heiko Maas (26 April 2016). Live stream: http://www.bmjv.de/DE/Ministerium/Veranstaltungen/360Grad/360grad_node.html;jsessionid=A372893557EDFF3ECB9F3ACBD16693C4.1_cid289 https://www.bmjv.de/DE/Ministerium/Veranstaltungen/Anmeldung/360Grad/360grad_anmeldung_node.html
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Urheberrecht?src=hash
Summary reported in the top five German news site: http://m.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Urheberrecht-Die-digitale-Urheberrechtsreform-versackt-im-Fiasko-3189500.html
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://m.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Urheberrecht-Die-digitale-Urheberrechtsreform-versackt-im-Fiask...
 
Description Keynote on Copyright and Creative Reuse at Make Film History summer workshop (23 July 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On 23 July 2021, Bartolomeo Meletti was invited to deliver a keynote on Copyright and Creative Reuse at the summer workshop for filmmakers co-organised by the Make Film History project, the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, and the Essay Film Festival.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Launch: Digitising the Edwin Morgan Scrapbooks web resource 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Joint endeavour between Special Collections and CREATe (the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy, based at the University of Glasgow). Copyright law and our understanding of it remains a significant barrier to digitisation of archive materials. Recent changes in the law (IPO Guidelines) will be tested with a rights clearance exercise focusing on the Scrapbooks created by the poet Edwin Morgan (1920-2010).

The online resource includes an interactive digitised section of one of Edwin Morgan's scrapbooks, a full exploration of the project, and copyright guidance for other organisations undertaking similar digitisation projects. Event attendees were able to browse the resource as well as see Scrapbooks and related items from Edwin Morgan's personal papers, held in Special Collections.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/edwin-morgan-scrapbooks-project/
 
Description Letter 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Copyright Reform: coordinator of Open Letter from European Research Centres to Members of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union (24 February 2017), signed by Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Centre d'Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle (CEIPI), University of Strasbourg, France; RCUK Copyright Centre (CREATe), University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK; Chair for Civil and Intellectual Property Law, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany; Center for Internet & Society (NEXA), Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain SciencesPo Paris, France; Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society & Tilburg Law and Economics Center, University of Tilburg, Netherland
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.create.ac.uk/policy-responses/eu-copyright-reform/
 
Description Memes and Parasites: A discourse analysis of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact BY INVITATION: Presentations on Memes and Parasites: A discourse analysis of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (Martin Kretschmer with Ula Furgal & Amy Thomas), Weizenbaum Institute Berlin, 26 June 2020; Gikii conference, 31 July 2020; Centre for Internet Law and Policy, Strathclyde University, 2 October 2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2020/10/16/new-working-paper-memes-and-parasites-a-discourse-analysis-...
 
Description Music and Digitisation: Intellectual Property, Cultural Commons and Ontological Politics 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "ERC 'Music, Digitisation, Mediation' (MusDig) Research Programme, Faculty of Music, and Ertegun House, Oxford University

Organisers: Georgina Born, Aditi Deo and Andrew Eisenburg"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
URL http://musdig.music.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/IP_Event_Report.pdf
 
Description New empirical research on Intellectual Property Litigation and Platform Regulation. IP Kat blog (1400w) (19 February 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact New empirical research on Intellectual Property Litigation and Platform Regulation. IP Kat blog (1400w) (19 February 2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/guest-post-new-empirical-research-on.html
 
Description Open Innovation Design Jam 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact As part of the UK-wide ESRC Festival of Social Science, the University of Glasgow hosted an Open Innovation Design Jam on 10th November 2016. The purpose was to explore how open approaches to intellectual property could improve innovation in firms and organisations. Issues covered included creative commons licensing, open hardware, crowdsourcing, and new forms of patent pooling.

Design jams are short, intensive pitching competitions where teams work together to develop innovative solutions to challenges (more on these below). The event was organised by Dr. Kristofer Erickson and Natacha Esteves in CREATe at the University of Glasgow.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.create.ac.uk/openjam2016/
 
Description Opening Up the Archives to Young Filmmakers (11 September 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact On 11th September 2020, Bartolomeo Meletti gave a 30-minute talk on Copyright and Creative Reuse at the one-day online symposium Opening Up the Archives to Young Filmmakers, organised by Kingston School of Art.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Overcoming Boundaries: Open Science and Open Innovation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Opening Symposium of The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities: "Overcoming Boundaries: Open Science and Open Innovation", panellist, Brussels, Bibliothèque Solvay (21/11/2016):
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.the-guild.eu/events/2016/opening-symposium.html
 
Description PEER-REVIEWED SUBMISSION: "A deeper look into the EU Text and Data Mining exceptions: Harmonisation, data ownership, and the future of technology" (with T. Margoni), European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP), Madrid (11-13 September 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact joint presentation at EPIP 2021 conference / A peer reviewed submission (with T Margoni) was attended by over 100 academic practitioners to raise awareness of the EU Text and Data Mining exceptions
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://epip2021.org/summary/
 
Description PEER-REVIEWED SUBMISSION: "IP in-licensing and open innovation orientation of entrepreneurial ventures: A case from a crowdfunding marketplace" (with K. Erickson), European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP), Madrid (11-13 September 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A peer reviewed submission / conference presentation (with K. Erickson) on IP in-licensing and open innovation orientation of entrepreneurial ventures: A case from a crowdfunding marketplace" at the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP), Madrid (11-13 September 2021). Over 100 participants attended.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://epip2021.org/summary/
 
Description Peer reviewed submission: What We've Learned from 20 Years of Notice-and-takedown: Balancing Costs and Responsibilities for Online Content Regulation, European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP), Zurich (11-13 September 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP), conference brings together leading scholars and practitioners interested in the economic, legal, political and managerial aspects of intellectual property rights.

This conference assembled theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented presentations and discussions on the status and future of intellectual property protection.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://epip2019.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/EPIP2019_Booklet.pdf
 
Description Peer-reviewed submission: A Survey of UK Authors' Earnings and Contracts, Society for Economic Research on Copyright (SERCI), Annual Congress, Montpellier (France) 8-9 July 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact peer reviewed submission paper for annual Society for Economic Research on Copyright (SERCI) annual congress presentation, increased interest and awareness of research which encouraged questions and discussion afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://www.serci.org/congress_documents.php
 
Description Platform Regulation and the EU Digital Single Market - European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP2020online, 9-11 September 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact PEER-REVIEWED SUBMISSION: Platform Regulation and the EU Digital Single Market (convenor of themed session), European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP2020online, 9-11 September 2020)


Session Chair: Martin Kretschmer, CREATe, University of Glasgow
Participants: Natali Helberger, University of Amsterdam / Jeanette Hofmann, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin / Pamela Samuelson, University of California, Berkeley / Philip Schlesinger, University of Glasgow / Sebastian Schwemer, University of Copenhagen

The dominant liability regime for platform intermediaries is about to change. The EU appears to be moving from an obligation to act upon knowledge obtained ("safe harbour") to an obligation to prevent "online harm". A multidisciplinary panel will explore what this means for intellectual property law in the context of the global agenda on platform regulation (fake news, security, child protection, market dominance, data sovereignty).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://epip2020online.org/program/sessions/
 
Description Politico Copyrights and Wrongs Panel, Brussels 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact "The European Commission has launched plans to modernize EU copyright rules for the digital era. The existing rules date back to 2001, well before the explosion in popularity of e-books and video- and music-streaming services. Among the issues the Commission plans to address are:

- Consumers' frustration at 'unjustified geo-blocking', being denied access to digital content they have paid for outside their home country;
- Making it easier to distribute digital content throughout the EU;
- Ensuring that creators are fairly paid for their work.

This event will bring together senior policymakers and key stakeholders from the creative industries to discuss whether the proposed changes to copyright rules will meet the challenge of protecting intellectual property and funding models in the digital era and creating a well-functioning market for digital content."
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.politico.eu/event/copyrights-and-wrongs-making-a-single-market-for-digital-content-work/
 
Description Presented in JURI Committee workshop, 7 December 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presented in JURI Committee workshop, 7 December 2017, cited by Th. Hopper, Legal Affairs Briefing on Strengthening the Press Through Copyright, notes 20, 21, 23, 24, 28 29: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2017/596835/IPOL_BRI(2017)596835_EN.pdf Ch. Colon, Legal Affairs Briefing on Article 11, Copyright in the Digital Market Directive, note 9, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2017/596834/IPOL_BRI(2017)596834_EN.pdf
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/supporting-analyses-search.html
 
Description ReCreating Europe General Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On 5 April 2022, Bartolomeo Meletti participated in the General Meeting of the H2020 consortium ReCreating Europe, which took place at the University of Amsterdam. As part of the meeting, Bartolomeo devised and conducted a workshop with researchers to discuss and update the information architecture of CopyrightUser.eu.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Regulatory divergence post Brexit: Copyright law as an indicator for what is to come. EU Law Analysis Blog (1500w) (18 February 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Regulatory divergence post Brexit: Copyright law as an indicator for what is to come. EU Law Analysis Blog (1500w) (18 February 2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2020/02/regulatory-divergence-post-brexit.html
 
Description Regulatory divergence post Brexit: Copyright law as an indicator for what is to come. Kluwer Copyright Blog (1500w) (18 February 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Regulatory divergence post Brexit: Copyright law as an indicator for what is to come. Kluwer Copyright Blog (1500w) (18 February 2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2020/02/19/regulatory-divergence-post-brexit-copyright-law-as-a...
 
Description Rethinking Copyright's Economic Rights', organiser and chair of themed session at European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP 2017), speakers B. Hugenholtz, J. Poort, S. Bechtold, A. Ohly, A. Rognstad, A. Strowel, University of Bordeaux (5 September 2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Rethinking Copyright's Economic Rights', organiser and chair of themed session at European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP 2017), speakers B. Hugenholtz, J. Poort, S. Bechtold, A. Ohly, A. Rognstad, A. Strowel, University of Bordeaux (5 September 2017) http://epip2017.org/index.php/themed-sessions/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://epip2017.org/index.php/themed-sessions/
 
Description Reversion rights in the European Union, Stakeholder workshop with author and performer organisations (AEPO-ARTIS, ZAiKS, ALCS, ECSA, European Writers' Council, SAA, Society of Authors, CEATL) (M. Kretschmer with R. Giblin, U. Furgal) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Stakeholder workshop with author and performer organisations (AEPO-ARTIS, ZAiKS, ALCS, ECSA, European Writers' Council, SAA, Society of Authors, CEATL) Forum for discussion of ideas on implementation of art. 22 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market providing for a right of revocation.

Its goal to bring together representatives of authors' and performers' organisations to discuss the status of implementation of art. 22 in the Member States and debate the ways of bringing this provision to the attention of national lawmakers. Presenting to the forum the results and lessons we learned while mapping all reversion rights currently in existence in the EU, which we believe can inform the implementation process.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/reversion-rights-resource-page/
 
Description Rob Vile reports on CREATe/BIICL conference: Mapping Platform Regulation in the UK. IPKat blog (2 March 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Rob Vile reports on CREATe/BIICL conference: Mapping Platform Regulation in the UK. IPKat blog (2 March 2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/03/guest-post-createbiicl-conference.html
 
Description SCURL Online Conference (18 June 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On 18 June 2020, CREATe researchers Bartolomeo Meletti and Thomas Margoni presented at the SCURL online copyright conference. The online event - organised by Greg Walters (University of Glasgow) and chaired by Jeanette Castle (University of the West of Scotland) - brought together around 50 information professionals from the Scottish Confederation of University & Research Library (SCURL).

A report of the presentation can be found here: https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2020/07/09/report-create-researchers-present-on-copyright-exceptions-for-education-and-research-at-scurl-copyright-conference-part-1/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2020/07/09/report-create-researchers-present-on-copyright-exceptions-f...
 
Description SciencesPo, Paris, Annual meeting of European Copyright Society, 'Jurisprudence of the CJEU, and the unification of European copyright law' (12 May 2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact SciencesPo, Paris, Annual meeting of European Copyright Society, 'Jurisprudence of the CJEU, and the unification of European copyright law' (12 May 2017)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Talk by invitation: AEPO-ARTIS Seminar "Post Copyright Directive: What performers' rights protection in the future?" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact talk by invitation on the subject of;

"similarities with the earnings of literary authors, and in many cases the lack thereof, there was general agreement that the aim of Chapter III of the 2019 Copyright Directive is the redistribution of income to authors and performers"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://www.aepo-artis.org/en/news/detail/-173-1
 
Description Text and Data Mining interoperability at the legal level: rights, exceptions and licences - Webinair 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The webinar focused on the complex and fragmented EU copyright framework which applies to activities relevant for Text and Data Mining purposes. The general legal landscape will be briefly presented in order to identify limits and opportunities offered by current copyright rules. Regarding the former, the webinar will illustrate which rights (e.g. right of reproduction and right of distribution) can be triggered by TDM activities and what this entails. Regarding the latter, available exceptions and limitations will be analysed in an attempt to offer an overview of when (and where) an existing copyright exception could cover TDM activities. This part included the recent draft proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market and other national initiatives. Finally, copyright licences and the ways in which the OpenMinTeD project intends to favour legal and metadata interoperability among the many different and often incompatible licences and terms of use will be discussed.

https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/event/text-and-data-mining-interoperability-legal-level-rights-exceptions-and-licences
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/event/text-and-data-mining-interoperability-legal-level-rights-exce...
 
Description Text and Data Mining of Copyright Evidence: Visualization R&D and Deep Dive 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact PEER-REVIEWED SUBMISSION: Text and Data Mining of Copyright Evidence: Visualization R&D and Deep Dive, BEYOND Creative Industries R&D conference (M. Kretschmer with A. Thomas, K. Erickson, B. Meletti, 3 December 2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://beyondconference.org/schedule/?d=3&e=164
 
Description The 25th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact First International Workshop on Artificial  Intelligence  and IP (AIIP) as part of the JURIX 2012 conference  "The 25th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems". Workshop chaired by Prof. Burkhard Schafer http://conference.jurix.nl/2012/cfp.html  Download the AIIP cfp.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
URL http://conference.jurix.nl/2012/cfp.html
 
Description The changing shape of platform regulation. Media@LSE blog (18 February 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact (P. Schlesinger, M. Kretschmer). The changing shape of platform regulation. Media@LSE blog (18 February 2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2020/02/18/the-changing-shape-of-platform-regulation/
 
Description The future for the UK's copyright framework 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact BY INVITATION: Westminster Media Forum "The future for the UK's copyright framework" (16 July 2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2020/07/21/uk-sovereignty-a-challenge-for-the-creative-industries/
 
Description UK Feature Docs - Focus Group (16 July 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact On 16th July 2020, Bartolomeo Meletti was invited to participate in a focus group on 'Archives and Copyright' organised by the UK Featured Docs (UKFD) project, led by the University of West England. Bartolomeo presented the reCreating Europe project and the task aimed at developing codes of best practices for documentary filmmakers. As a result, the UKFD team included the recommendation 'Developing codes of practice in fair use' in their subsequent policy report Making It Real, and invited Bartolomeo to join the UKFD working group on 'Screen Heritage'. URL link to policy report Making It Real below
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://ukfd.org.uk/policy-reports/
 
Description UK Feature Docs - Screen Heritage Working Group (25 March 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact On 25 March 2021, Bartolomeo Meletti attended the kick off meeting of the UK Feature Docs Screen Heritage Working Group, one of the ten components of the newly established Documentary Film Council (DFC).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description UK sovereignty: A challenge for the creative industries : Blog for AHRC Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre (21 July 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Blog for AHRC Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre (21 July 2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://pec.ac.uk/blog/uk-sovereignty-a-challenge-for-the-creative-industries
 
Description University of Tilburg, 'Evidence and the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive' (key note), Workshop on "Competition Policy and Regulation in Media and Telecommunications: Bridging Law and Economics" (1 June 2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact University of Tilburg, 'Evidence and the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive' (key note), Workshop on "Competition Policy and Regulation in Media and Telecommunications: Bridging Law and Economics" (1 June 2017)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/law/show-law/event-competition-workshop-media-telecommuni...
 
Description Up Your IP' Blog: ICC (2014). 'Act early and strategically' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact ICC held three workshops providing strategic and legal advice on everyday IP issues. Each event focussed on a different sector.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/icc/research/grantprojects/capitalisingoncreativityesrc/knowledgetransf...
 
Description Webinar on Copyright and Creative Reuse in Education for Europeana MOOC by European Schoolnet 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact On 17 February 2022, Bartolomeo Meletti was invited to deliver a webinar on Copyright and Creative Reuse in Education for the Europeana MOOC, organised by the European Schoolnet, a network of 33 European Ministries for Education.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Westminster Media Forum "Next steps for UK copyright policy and regulation" (11 February 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact BY INVITATION: Westminster Media Forum "Next steps for UK copyright policy and regulation" (11 February 2020)
On the 11th February to discuss the Next steps for copyright policy and regulation in the UK! speakers include Professor Martin Kretschmer @UofGlasgow, Nicola Solomon @Soc_of_Authors; @lcromptonreid @wikimediauk!

Stakeholder perspectives on the future of UK copyright regulation
Professor Martin Kretschmer, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Glasgow

Westminster Media Forum policy conference
Next steps for copyright policy and regulation in the UK
Timing: Morning, Thursday, 11th February 2021
***Taking Place Online***


Agenda Below
8.30
Registration
9.00
Chair's opening remarks
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
9.05
Priorities for future copyright regulation and enforcement in the UK
Robin Stout, Deputy Director, Copyright Policy, Intellectual Property Office
Questions and comments from the floor
9.30
Break
9.35
Stakeholder perspectives on the future of UK copyright regulation
Professor Martin Kretschmer, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Glasgow
Lucy Crompton-Reid, Chief Executive, Wikimedia UK
Nicola Solomon, Chief Executive, Society of Authors
Raffaella De Santis, Senior Associate, Harbottle and Lewis
Gee Davy, Head of Legal and Business Affairs, Association of Independent Music
Questions and comments from the floor
10.50
Chair's closing remarks
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
10.55
Break
11.05
Chair's opening remarks
Charles Courtenay, the Earl of Devon, Partner, Michelmores
11.10
Case study: an international perspective on regulation and remuneration for rights holders and content creators
Diego Naranjo, Head of Policy, European Digital Rights
11.20
Case study: maximising export opportunities and addressing the challenge of piracy
William Bush, Executive Director, Premier League
11.30
Artificial intelligence and copyright
Rachel Alexander, Partner, Wiggin
11.40
Rights enforcement, international co-operation and future-proofing policy - voluntary agreements, the role of technology and education, and the impact of COVID-19
Jim Killock, Executive Director, Open Rights Group
Daniel Guthrie, Director General, Alliance for Intellectual Property
Dr Hayleigh Bosher, Legal Adviser, Featured Artists Coalition
12.00
Questions and comments from the floor
12.25
Break
12.30
Emerging issues and priorities for copyright policy in an international context Professor Martin Senftleben, Chair, European Copyright Society and Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam
Questions and comments from the floor
12.55
Chair's and Westminster Media Forum closing remarks
Charles Courtenay, the Earl of Devon, Partner, Michelmores Michael Ryan, Deputy Editor, Westminster Media Forum
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Westminster media Forum Keynote Seminar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Westminster Media Forum Keynote Seminar: The future for copyright and design rights policy - rights management, enforcement and the UK's approach post-Brexit, London: Glaziers Hall (22/6/2017): http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/forums/agenda/copyright-policy-17-agenda.pdf
http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2017/07/03/martin-kretschmer-westminster-forum-brexit/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/forums/agenda/copyright-policy-17-agenda.pdf
 
Description What Constitutes Evidence for Copyright Policy? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact CIPPM + CREATe ESRC Social Science Festival event "What Constitutes Evidence for Copyright Policy?"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
URL http://www.cippm.org.uk/news/2012/june/ne001-esrc-social-science-festival.html
 
Description Who's Zoomin' Who? Music, Copyright and Precarity (with Janet Burgess and Casi Dylan) November 2020 Webinar 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On Thursday, November 12th 2020, Kenny Barr and Janet Burgess from CREATe joined Casi Dylan (Cultural Activities Co-ordinator at the University's College of Arts) to host an online Zoom event, in conjunction with the Being Human Festival and the ESRC Festival of Social Science. Part gig, part debate, the event brought together music and legal scholars, musicians and policy makers to highlight how music is created, where copyright fits in, and the impact that Covid-19 has had on musicians, both professional and amateur. As a sector, the music industry was already characterised by precariousness and uncertainty but the devastating effects of lockdown compelled many musicians to start using online platforms as their only means of making music.

https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2021/01/21/report-whos-zoomin-who-music-copyright-and-precarity/

https://festivalofsocialscience.com/events/awhoas-zoomina-whoa-music-copyright-and-precarity/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://festivalofsocialscience.com/events/awhoas-zoomina-whoa-music-copyright-and-precarity/
 
Description by Financial Times, "How do authors earn a living? It's a Catch-22 situation" (7 June 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact increased interest and cited in other press publications
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.ft.com/content/5c7c31b8-82e3-11e9-a7f0-77d3101896ec
 
Description by invitation talk Tipping Points. Zum Verhältnis von Freiheit und Restriktion im Urheberrecht, Discussant, Weizenbaum Institute Berlin (20-21 February 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact By invitation to talk at the interdisciplinary conference of the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society and the Copyright Committee of the Society for Music Economy and Music Culture Research (GMM) will take place on February 20 and 21, 2020 in Berlin.

The topic was the EU copyright reform and subsequent questions relevant for musicologists and music industry researchers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/call-for-papers-tipping-points-zum-verhaeltnis-von-freiheit-...
 
Description inDICEs Policy Recommendations Workshop (13 December 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact On 13 December 2021, Bartolomeo Meletti was invited to participate in an online workshop on policy recommendations for Cultural Heritage Institutions, with a focus on the types of reuse of digital collections.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description talk by invitation: Copyright Politics in the Age of Platform Capitalism, RIGHT THE RIGHT Festival (Ideas for Music, Copyright, and Access), Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) (21-24 November 2019), 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Lectures and discussions around music and copyright law and enforcement from varied and engagement with audience and speakers
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.hkw.de/de/programm/projekte/2019/right_the_right/right_the_right_start.php
 
Description talk by invitation: European copyright reform: is it possible?, Live streamed lecture, republic Berlin (6 May 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Live streamed lecture at republic Berlin conference (6 May 2019) - reflecting on the role of lobbying and empirical evidence in the debate on the EU Copyright Reform, leading up to the plenary vote in the European Parliament in March 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://19.re-publica.com/de/session/european-copyright-reform-it-possible
 
Description training event : Digitising Photographs: Copyright Duration and Diligent Search of the Edwin Morgan project web resource 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Digitising Photographs: Copyright Duration and Diligent Search - workshop

Digitising photographs poses very specific challenges. It is not always easy to work out whether a photograph is in copyright, or when the copyright term expires. And photographs that are in copyright may be orphan works: lacking any contextual information that might help identify the relevant copyright owner.

This expert workshop addressed these related issues. It provided an overview of the duration of copyright protection as it relates to photographs, a notoriously complicated area of law. In addition, it provided practical guidance on how to conduct a diligent search for orphan photographs under both the European Orphan Works Directive and the UK Orphan Works Licensing Scheme: what sources are useful in conducting a search, and what level of diligence is required? This workshop was organized for anyone interested in digitising photographs from archive and other collections.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2016/12/07/scrapbooks-training-launch-event/