CIPPM Awarded Funding for Project on Copyright and Open Norms from Around the World - A research team consisting of Prof. Dinusha Mendis (Director, CIPPM), Dr Dukki Hong (PDRA) and Mr Ben White (PhD candidate) at CIPPM have been selected to carry out a 1-year research project looking at the experience of those countries around the world which have adopted open approaches to copyright experiences, and the scope for adopting the... Read more » about CIPPM Awarded Funding for Project on Copyright and Open Norms from Around the World
Economic Survival in a Long Established Creative Industry: Strategies, Business Models and Copyright in Music Publishing - Project funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 2014-2016 (research grant no. AH/L004666/1) The research aims to analyse the survival of music publishing industry over a long period of time as it adapted its products, marketing strategies and business models to new technologies and legislative changes. The analysis is expected to provide new... Read more » about Economic Survival in a Long Established Creative Industry: Strategies, Business Models and Copyright in Music Publishing
Copyright Contracts and Earnings of Visual Creators - Study commissioned by DACS. The aim is to create an independently validated evidence base as a guide for policy makers, in particular in relationship to copyright issues in the digital environment. The core of the project was a survey carried out in summer 2010, covering professional profiles of visual creators, sources of earnings, contractual practices and trends over time.
Exploitation of TV Formats - Research Question: How are television formats traded in the absence of protection under copyright law? Why pay when you can copy for free? Methodology: Three Steps- 1. Creation and analysis of database of 59 reported format disputes between 1988 and 2008. 2. Semi-structured interviews with media sellers / buyers at 3 international TV trade fairs... Read more » about Exploitation of TV Formats
Authors’ Earnings from Copyright and Non-Copyright Sources - AUTHORS’ EARNINGS FROM COPYRIGHT AND NON-COPYRIGHT SOURCES: A SURVEY OF 25,000 BRITISH AND GERMAN WRITERS Martin Kretschmer and Philip Hardwick Released 13 July 2007 In 2005, the UK Collecting Society ALCS commissioned a comparative study on authors’ earnings from a team of lawyers and social scientists at CIPPM. The aim was to create an independently... Read more » about Authors’ Earnings from Copyright and Non-Copyright Sources- Ruth Towse: “Dealing with Digital: Economic Organisation of Streamed Music”
- R. Towse – Advanced Introduction to Cultural Economics
- R. Towse and C. Handke – Handbook on the Digital Creative Economy
- M. Favale – Copyright and Contract Law: Regulating User Contracts
- M. Favale, M. Kretschmer, E. Derclaye and R. Watt –The relationship between copyright and contract law
- M. Favale and E. Derclaye – Copyright and Contract Law
Pascal Kamina: “Public Domain Film Works” May 2, 2024 - Thursday 2 May 2024, 16:00 (BST); EB708 The event is free to attend, but registration is required. Please e-mail Dr. Claudy Op den Kamp at copdenkamp@bournemouth.ac.uk to book your place. Abstract This talk will address some issues associated with the determination of public domain for film works. More specifically, it will explain (with supporting examples)... Read more » about Pascal Kamina: “Public Domain Film Works”
Elizabeth Gibson: Copyright exceptions in creative re-use – perspectives from the BBC March 7, 2024 - Public Lecture Thursday 7 March 2024, 18:00 (BST); EB306 The event is free to attend, but registration is required. Please e-mail Prof. Dinusha Mendis at dmendis@bournemouth.ac.uk to book your place. This talk by Elizabeth Gibson will provide an overview of how the British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC) protects and exploits its rights and the balance it... Read more » about Elizabeth Gibson: Copyright exceptions in creative re-use – perspectives from the BBC
CIPPM Study outlines experiences of implementing flexible copyright exceptions from around the world February 15, 2024 - On Thursday 15th February 2024, 13.00-14.30 (BST) Dinusha Mendis, Ben White and Dukki Hong will present the research findings from their recently completed project ‘Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations’. The event will be hosted as a live webinar by Knowledge Rights 21 which funded the research project. The... Read more » about CIPPM Study outlines experiences of implementing flexible copyright exceptions from around the world
CIPPM launches seminar series with a talk on female inventors and patents February 14, 2024 - CIPPM Research Seminar Series Thursday 29 February 2024, 16:00 (BST); EB305 CIPPM is pleased to announce its Seminar Series for 2024, which will feature presentations from policy makers, industry stakeholders, academics and practitioners. Our first seminar will host Pauline Beck from the UK Intellectual Property Office. In this talk, Pauline will be tracing a line... Read more » about CIPPM launches seminar series with a talk on female inventors and patents
Can I really use this? Copyright exceptions for filmmakers November 21, 2023 - CREATe and CIPPM Copyright Event: 21 November 2023 CIPPM researchers present findings from copyright open norms project at UKIPO and European Commission May 29, 2024 - On Wednesday 22nd May and Friday 24th May 2024, CIPPM researchers, Dinusha Mendis, Benjamin White and Dukki Hong were invited to present their research on copyright and open norms in seven jurisdictions at the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) and European Commission respectively. The project funded by Knowledge Rights 21 explores the adoption, use and... Read more » about CIPPM researchers present findings from copyright open norms project at UKIPO and European Commission
CIPPM research on AI and copyright featured on BBC News and The Conversation January 27, 2024 - CIPPM Director, Prof. Dinusha Mendis was featured on BBC News on 27th December 2023 in giving her opinion on the recent complaint filed by New York Times against OpenAI. In the complaint lodged at the Federal District Court in Manhattan, the New York Times (NYT) alleged that OpenAI had unlawfully used millions of its copyrighted... Read more » about CIPPM research on AI and copyright featured on BBC News and The Conversation
CIPPM Publishes a New Report on Illegal IPTV in Europe and UK December 15, 2022 - In April 2022, CIPPM was commissioned by the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) to further explore the state of illegal IPTV in Europe. The aim of the AAPA commissioned project was to build on the research carried out by the CIPPM team, during 2018-2019 for a project commissioned by the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) on... Read more » about CIPPM Publishes a New Report on Illegal IPTV in Europe and UK
Major discovery by Dr Claudy op den Kamp in identifying the first-ever copyrighted motion picture registration October 19, 2022 - A major discovery in the world of copyright and film has been unearthed by Principal Academic in Film and CIPPM Member, Dr. Claudy Op den Kamp. As a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, Claudy unearthed the evidence – that many have been looking for decades but have not been successful – identifying the... Read more » about Major discovery by Dr Claudy op den Kamp in identifying the first-ever copyrighted motion picture registration CIPPM Awarded Funding for Project on Copyright and Open Norms from Around the World September 16, 2022 - A research team consisting of Prof. Dinusha Mendis (Director, CIPPM), Dr Dukki Hong (PDRA) and Mr Ben White (PhD candidate) at CIPPM have been selected to carry out a 1-year research project looking at the experience of those countries around the world which have adopted open approaches to copyright experiences, and the scope for adopting the... Read more » about CIPPM Awarded Funding for Project on Copyright and Open Norms from Around the World
