Creative Industries

Ruth Towse: “Dealing with Digital: Economic Organisation of Streamed Music”

Working Paper No. 01-2020 January 2020 The intervention of digital service providers (DSPs) or platforms such as Spotify, AppleMusic and Tidal supplying music streamed music has fundamentally altered the way that song-writers and recording artists are paid and the operation of copyright management organisations (CMOs). Platform economics has emerged from the economic analysis of two-… Read more » about Ruth Towse: “Dealing with Digital: Economic Organisation of Streamed Music”

Maurizio Borghi: “Reconstructing fairness – The problem with fair use exclusivity”

Working Paper No. 04-2019 October 2019 Exemptions from copyright infringement play a pivotal role in the new digital economy. Tech companies rely heavily on fair use, fair dealing and other statutory exceptions, as well as on safe-harbour limitations of liability. For many businesses, the availability of a copyright exemption represents an asset that is as… Read more » about Maurizio Borghi: “Reconstructing fairness – The problem with fair use exclusivity”

A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects – now published

A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects (Cambridge University Press) is a book that focuses on 50 objects to tell a history of the intellectual property system, and why it matters today. The book brings together an interesting group of interdisciplinary scholars to tell a wide-ranging audience why they should care about intellectual property…. Read more » about A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects – now published