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Making sense of Digital Rights Management in Videogames

Posted . Filed under Creative Industries, Emergent Technologies.

CIPPM researcher Marcella Favale has been awarded a Fusion Investment Fund for a collaborative project on Making sense of DRM in game development (Madrigal) Restrictive technology can prevent you from copying certain CDs or DVDs to a portable device to watch during your train journey or even go as far as to dictate which brand… Read more » about Making sense of Digital Rights Management in Videogames

Making sense of DRM in game development (Madrigal)

Posted . Filed under Emergent Technologies, Projects.

Restrictive technology can prevent you from copying certain CDs or DVDs to a portable device to watch during your train journey or even go as far as to dictate which brand of coffee capsules you put in your espresso machine. This is Digital Rights Management (DRM). The Madrigal project has been awarded a Fusion Investment… Read more » about Making sense of DRM in game development (Madrigal)

CIPPM research features in the Report of the Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy

Posted . Filed under Emergent Technologies.

The Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy launched on the 26th January 2015 after a long period of consultation and research. Argyro Karanasiou has provided evidence discussing lawmaking the digital era and her work is cited (n 18, 23, 73) in the report, which can be found here. On Tuesday 3/2/2015 Argyro attended the reception in… Read more » about CIPPM research features in the Report of the Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy

Maurizio Borghi on “Legal regulation of search engines”

Posted . Filed under Emergent Technologies.

Faculty seminar of Maurizio Borghi “Legal regulation of research engines: the end of the “consent architecture”?” Wednesday 28 January 2015, 1:00pm, Room PG22 The seminar will address search engine liability in the context of EU law and jurisprudence (e.g. Innoweb and the recent Ryanair case). It concludes that the European legislative framework is severely restricting… Read more » about Maurizio Borghi on “Legal regulation of search engines”

CIPPM Researchers launch Copyright Resource for A/AS Level Media Studies

Posted . Filed under Focus areas, UK EU IP Policy.

Researchers at the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) in collaboration with CREATe, the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy at the University of Glasgow have launched an educational web resource aimed at A/AS Level Media Studies. The project, which was carried out during 2013-2014, was funded… Read more » about CIPPM Researchers launch Copyright Resource for A/AS Level Media Studies