CIPPM awarded funding to carry out research into deepfake technology - In May 2024, Professor Dinusha Mendis, was awarded funding from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation to carry out research into deepfake technology and the law. The project, carried out in collaboration with Dr Rossana Ducato (CIPPM Visiting Fellow and Senior Lecturer University of Aberdeen) and Professor Tatsuhiro Ueno (Waseda University, Tokyo) explores the impact of deepfake... Read more » about CIPPM awarded funding to carry out research into deepfake technology
From Still to Moving Images: A New Look at Cinema’s Legal Birth - An innovative research project is set to challenge how we think about the birth of cinema. CIPPM’s Dr Claudy Op den Kamp has been awarded a fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to create a groundbreaking videographic monograph at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Titled ‘First,’ the project will produce... Read more » about From Still to Moving Images: A New Look at Cinema’s Legal Birth
Ruth Towse: “How has digitalisation changed the economics of the creative industries?” - Towse R., How has digitalisation changed the economics of the creative industries? Economic Observatory 22/04/2024 How has digitalisation changed the economics of the creative industries? – Economics Observatory
Dinusha Mendis, Ben White, and Dukki Hong: “Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations” - Mendis D. White B and Hong D., Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations (Knowledge Rights 21, 2024) (114pp) Adopting a desk-based literature review, as well as discussion with national experts from the relevant jurisdictions, this report explores the adoption, use and impact of open norms, as introduced in seven... Read more » about Dinusha Mendis, Ben White, and Dukki Hong: “Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations”
Copyright in the Metaverse - This project funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciene (JSPS) analyses UK and Japanese copyright laws and how they relate to the Metaverse. The project was awarded to Professor Dinusha Mendis to take up a short term invitational professorship at Waseda University Tokyo from July – October 2023. It was carried out... Read more » about Copyright in the Metaverse
CIPPM Awarded Funding for Project on Copyright and Open Norms from Around the World - A research team consisting of Prof. Dinusha Mendis (Director, CIPPM), Dr Dukki Hong (PDRA) and Mr Ben White (PhD candidate) at CIPPM have been selected to carry out a 1-year research project looking at the experience of those countries around the world which have adopted open approaches to copyright experiences, and the scope for adopting the... Read more » about CIPPM Awarded Funding for Project on Copyright and Open Norms from Around the World
Economic Survival in a Long Established Creative Industry: Strategies, Business Models and Copyright in Music Publishing - Project funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 2014-2016 (research grant no. AH/L004666/1) The research aims to analyse the survival of music publishing industry over a long period of time as it adapted its products, marketing strategies and business models to new technologies and legislative changes. The analysis is expected to provide new... Read more » about Economic Survival in a Long Established Creative Industry: Strategies, Business Models and Copyright in Music Publishing
Copyright Contracts and Earnings of Visual Creators - 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.
Exploitation of TV Formats - 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 - 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 SourcesDinusha Mendis: “Legal Implications of 3D Printing in Fashion” - Mendis D., ‘Legal Implications of 3D Printing in Fashion’ in Rosati E and Caliboli I., The Handbook of Fashion Law (Cambridge University Press, 2025), pp. 680-695.
Ruth Towse: “How has digitalisation changed the economics of the creative industries?” - Towse R., How has digitalisation changed the economics of the creative industries? Economic Observatory 22/04/2024 How has digitalisation changed the economics of the creative industries? – Economics Observatory Dinusha Mendis, Ben White, and Dukki Hong: “Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations” - Mendis D. White B and Hong D., Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations (Knowledge Rights 21, 2024) (114pp) Adopting a desk-based literature review, as well as discussion with national experts from the relevant jurisdictions, this report explores the adoption, use and impact of open norms, as introduced in seven... Read more » about Dinusha Mendis, Ben White, and Dukki Hong: “Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations”
Dinusha Mendis and Rosa Ballardini: “Intellectual Property Rights at Crossroads: The Copyright and Patent Implications relating to 3D printing” - Mendis D and Ballardini R., ‘Intellectual Property Rights at Crossroads: The Copyright and Patent Implications relating to 3D printing’ in Pei E et al (eds), Springer Handbook of Additive Manufacturing (Springer; 2023), pp. 87-99 Through an analysis of copyright and patent laws, this chapter considers the implications arising from 3D printing and 3D scanning. In... Read more » about Dinusha Mendis and Rosa Ballardini: “Intellectual Property Rights at Crossroads: The Copyright and Patent Implications relating to 3D printing”
Claudy op den Kamp: “Categorisation Limits” - Op den Kamp C., ‘Categorisation Limits’ in Nezih Erdoğan and Ebru Kayaalp (eds), Exploring Past Images in a Digital Age. Reinventing the Archive (Amsterdam University Press, 2023), pp. 131-148 This chapter is a transcript of an interview with the late Austrian filmmaker Gustav Deutsch, conducted in 2010, about the reuse of other people’s footage, a... Read more » about Claudy op den Kamp: “Categorisation Limits”
Melanie Stockton-Brown: “Inking Cultures: Authorship, AI Generated Art and Copyright Law in Tattooing” - Stockton-Brown M., Inking Cultures: Authorship, AI Generated Art and Copyright Law in Tattooing (2023) 36(5) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 2037- 2065 This article considers current advances in tattooing that are challenging communityheld views of authorship and ownership, and the need to address this tension. The key challenge is from AI-generated artworks being... Read more » about Melanie Stockton-Brown: “Inking Cultures: Authorship, AI Generated Art and Copyright Law in Tattooing”
Ruth Towse: “Digitization, Internet and Economics of the Creative Industries” - Towse R., ‘Digitization, Internet and Economics of the Creative Industries’ in W. Gonzalez, (ed) The Internet and Philosophy of Science, (Routledge, 2023) The creative industries are increasingly understood to contribute significantly to national Income and economic growth. Made up of the performing, literary and visual arts, museums and heritage and the music, film, video, broadcasting... Read more » about Ruth Towse: “Digitization, Internet and Economics of the 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”
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” Deepfake and the law: stakeholder roundtable April 9, 2025 - On 9th April 2025, CIPPM will host a stakeholder roundtable on ‘deepfake and the law’. The event follows on from the stakeholder roundtable which was hosted at Waseda University Tokyo on 16 December 2024 and forms part of the project funded by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation to carry out research into deepfake technology and the law. The... Read more » about Deepfake and the law: stakeholder roundtable
Christina Angelopoulos: “Open science and copyright – the access and reuse issue” March 6, 2025 - 6 March 2025
Pascal Kamina: “Public Domain Film Works” May 2, 2024 - Thursday 2 May 2024, 16:00 (BST); EB708 The event is free to attend, but registration is required. Please e-mail Dr. Claudy Op den Kamp at copdenkamp@bournemouth.ac.uk to book your place. Abstract This talk will address some issues associated with the determination of public domain for film works. More specifically, it will explain (with supporting examples)... Read more » about Pascal Kamina: “Public Domain Film Works”
Elizabeth Gibson: Copyright exceptions in creative re-use – perspectives from the BBC March 7, 2024 - Public Lecture Thursday 7 March 2024, 18:00 (BST); EB306 The event is free to attend, but registration is required. Please e-mail Prof. Dinusha Mendis at dmendis@bournemouth.ac.uk to book your place. This talk by Elizabeth Gibson will provide an overview of how the British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC) protects and exploits its rights and the balance it... Read more » about Elizabeth Gibson: Copyright exceptions in creative re-use – perspectives from the BBC
CIPPM Study outlines experiences of implementing flexible copyright exceptions from around the world February 15, 2024 - On Thursday 15th February 2024, 13.00-14.30 (BST) Dinusha Mendis, Ben White and Dukki Hong will present the research findings from their recently completed project ‘Copyright and Open Norms in Seven Jurisdictions: Benefits, Challenges and Policy Recommendations’. The event will be hosted as a live webinar by Knowledge Rights 21 which funded the research project. The... Read more » about CIPPM Study outlines experiences of implementing flexible copyright exceptions from around the world Deepfake and the law: stakeholder roundtable April 9, 2025 - On 9th April 2025, CIPPM will host a stakeholder roundtable on ‘deepfake and the law’. The event follows on from the stakeholder roundtable which was hosted at Waseda University Tokyo on 16 December 2024 and forms part of the project funded by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation to carry out research into deepfake technology and the law. The... Read more » about Deepfake and the law: stakeholder roundtable CIPPM awarded funding to carry out research into deepfake technology November 7, 2024 - In May 2024, Professor Dinusha Mendis, was awarded funding from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation to carry out research into deepfake technology and the law. The project, carried out in collaboration with Dr Rossana Ducato (CIPPM Visiting Fellow and Senior Lecturer University of Aberdeen) and Professor Tatsuhiro Ueno (Waseda University, Tokyo) explores the impact of deepfake... Read more » about CIPPM awarded funding to carry out research into deepfake technology
CIPPM welcomes two new affiliate members October 31, 2024 - CIPPM is delighted to grow its interdisciplinary network by welcoming two new members to the Centre from the Department of Media Production at Bournemouth University. In November 2024, CIPPM welcomed Dr Tom Davis and Dr Szilvia Ruszev as affiliate members. Dr Tom Davis is a Associate Professor in Music and Audio Technology and teaches on... Read more » about CIPPM welcomes two new affiliate members
Copyright in the Metaverse – project concludes with manga-style graphic October 7, 2024 - This project funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciene (JSPS) analysed UK and Japanese copyright laws and how they relate to the Metaverse. The project awarded to Professor Dinusha Mendis led to a short term invitational professorship at Waseda University Tokyo from July – October 2023. It was carried out in collaboration... Read more » about Copyright in the Metaverse – project concludes with manga-style graphic
The Art of Legal Reuse: Understanding Pastiche in Filmmaking September 3, 2024 - An innovative network of filmmakers, lawyers, and academics has recently tackled a crucial question for artists: When can you legally reuse existing creative works to make something new? The Copyright and Pastiche Network was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and coordinated by Prof Charlotte Waelde of Coventry University. It brought together experts,... Read more » about The Art of Legal Reuse: Understanding Pastiche in Filmmaking
