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CIPPM Research Scholar Awarded PhD and Secures Prestigious Postdoctoral Scholarship

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BenWhite

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 hosts research event ‘Animating the Archive: Research and the Videographic Essay’, 27 May 2026

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Animating the Archive: Research and the Videographic Essay Wednesday 27 May 2026 CIPPM / Bournemouth University (EB708 Lecture Theatre) Bournemouth University’s Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management (CIPPM) will host a one-day research event exploring the growing role of videographic methods in activating archival materials across disciplines, publics, and legal contexts. Videographic essays, research… Read more » about CIPPM hosts research event ‘Animating the Archive: Research and the Videographic Essay’, 27 May 2026

Media Meets Law: CIPPM becomes part of a new German research network

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Mr Stops, 1824

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

CIPPM at the BFI: Archiving and Copyright Challenges

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CIPPM’s Claudy Op den Kamp presented at the BFI’s conference ‘Right from the Start: Copyright Data That Works’ on 3 February 2026 – a major gathering addressing copyright challenges facing film archives today. Held at BFI Southbank, the conference brought together experts from the BFI, National Library of Scotland, German Federal Archives, CREATe/University of Glasgow,… Read more » about CIPPM at the BFI: Archiving and Copyright Challenges