CIPPM: Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management
Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management
We are delighted to announce that Ben White, one of our researchers, has just been awarded his doctorate for his thesis: The Fourth Industrial Revolution – The Functions and Impacts of Copyright and Related Rights on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. His supervisors were Professor Dinusha Mendis, Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property, Policy… Read more » about CIPPM Research Scholar Awarded PhD and Secures Prestigious Postdoctoral Scholarship
CIPPM’s Benjamin White has recently contributed two OpEds to Times Higher Education, in which he examines the intersection of artificial intelligence, copyright, and the UK’s industrial strategy. Published in December 2025 and March 2026, the articles – The UK’s copyright laws will hobble its AI ambitions and Copyright maximalism will stifle a research-intensive digital economy –… Read more » about CIPPM in the Times Higher Education: AI and Copyright Law
What happens when copyright law meets memes, AI-generated images, and TikTok edits? That’s the question driving the formation of a new research network by Prof Dr Franziska Heller and Prof Dr Malte Stieper at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The network emerged from a series of 2024 workshops that… Read more » about Media Meets Law: CIPPM becomes part of a new German research network
Mendis D and Ueno T., ‘Mind the (virtual) Gap’: A Critical Analysis of UK and Japanese copyright exceptions relating to immersive technologies and the metaverse, (2025) 56 IIC, 1704-1733
On 26th November 2025, Professor Dinusha Mendis was invited to speak on the current status and developments in relation to AI and copyright in the UK at Association littéraire et artistique internationale (ALAI) Canada. The panel also consisted of Professor Martin Senftleben (Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Institute for Information Law… Read more » about The state of copyright and AI in the UK and EU: Professor Dinusha Mendis speaks at ALAI Canada
