Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management
The Cabinet Office has commissioned an independent study on the costs and benefits of introducing an open standards policy for software interoperability, data and document formats in government IT requirements. Academics from the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management (CIPPM) at Bournemouth University have prepared a review of the evidence on the competition and… Read more » about Open Standards in Government IT
In 2011, the government initiated the Hargreaves Review; an independent review of intellectual property, carried out by Professor Ian Hargreaves. The UK government is now considering making changes to the existing Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (CDPA 1988). CIPPM has created a series of short videos to explore some of these proposals and the arguments on both… Read more » about Changes to UK Copyright Law
Study commissioned by DACS. The aim is to create an independently validated evidence base as a guide for policy makers, in particular in relationship to copyright issues in the digital environment. The core of the project was a survey carried out in summer 2010, covering professional profiles of visual creators, sources of earnings, contractual practices and trends over time.
Research Question: How are television formats traded in the absence of protection under copyright law? Why pay when you can copy for free? Methodology: Three Steps- 1. Creation and analysis of database of 59 reported format disputes between 1988 and 2008. 2. Semi-structured interviews with media sellers / buyers at 3 international TV trade fairs… Read more » about Exploitation of TV Formats
AUTHORS’ EARNINGS FROM COPYRIGHT AND NON-COPYRIGHT SOURCES: A SURVEY OF 25,000 BRITISH AND GERMAN WRITERS Martin Kretschmer and Philip Hardwick Released 13 July 2007 In 2005, the UK Collecting Society ALCS commissioned a comparative study on authors’ earnings from a team of lawyers and social scientists at CIPPM. The aim was to create an independently… Read more » about Authors’ Earnings from Copyright and Non-Copyright Sources
Spring Public Lecture Series 2023 January 27, 2023
CIPPM Publishes a New Report on Illegal IPTV in Europe and UK December 15, 2022
Major discovery by Dr Claudy op den Kamp in identifying the first-ever copyrighted motion picture registration October 19, 2022
Upcoming event: Can I really use this? Copyright exceptions for filmmakers November 21, 2023
CIPPM Hosts Annual SERCI Conference from 6-7 July 2023 July 6, 2023
Open Sesame: Copyright, Creativity and Culture May 16, 2023