Creative Industries

Melanie Stockton-Brown: “Ghosts and Punks: The Aesthetics of Copyright Law in Graphic Novels and Comics”

Stockton-Brown M., Ghosts and Punks: The Aesthetics of Copyright Law in Graphic Novels and Comics(2023) 36(2) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 509- 527 Graphic justice and the law of aesthetics have in very recent years successfully brought law, aesthetics and comics scholarship into the same space. The culture of copyright infringement within comics… Read more » about Melanie Stockton-Brown: “Ghosts and Punks: The Aesthetics of Copyright Law in Graphic Novels and Comics”

Dinusha Mendis and Dukki Hong: “Informational Rights: Puzzles of Co-Production in 3D Printing”

Mendis D and Hong D., ‘Informational Rights: Puzzles of Co-Production in 3D Printing’ in M. Borghi and R. Brownsword (eds), Law, Regulation and Governance in the Information Society: Informational Rights and Informational Wrongs, (Routledge, 2022) The chapter considers consumer input in the 3D printing environment in light of 3D models designed for mass customisation. Focusing on… Read more » about Dinusha Mendis and Dukki Hong: “Informational Rights: Puzzles of Co-Production in 3D Printing”

CIPPM Publishes a New Report on Illegal IPTV in Europe and UK

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

Marcella Favale: “Robots as the New Judges: Copyright, Hate Speech and Platforms”

Favale M., Robots as the New Judges: Copyright, Hate Speech and Platforms (2022) 44(8) European Intellectual Property Review, pp. 461 – 471 On the 16th of October 2020, a middle-school teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded by a terrorist who would not know of his existence if not for a number of videos posted on social… Read more » about Marcella Favale: “Robots as the New Judges: Copyright, Hate Speech and Platforms”

Major discovery by Dr Claudy op den Kamp in identifying the first-ever copyrighted motion picture registration

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