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 Sources- Ruth Towse: “Dealing with Digital: Economic Organisation of Streamed Music”
- R. Towse – Advanced Introduction to Cultural Economics
- R. Towse and C. Handke – Handbook on the Digital Creative Economy
- M. Favale – Copyright and Contract Law: Regulating User Contracts
- M. Favale, M. Kretschmer, E. Derclaye and R. Watt –The relationship between copyright and contract law
- M. Favale and E. Derclaye – Copyright and Contract Law
Valentina Moscon: “Creators’ Remuneration in Online Marketplaces” March 31, 2023 - Public Lecture: 2 March 2023
Maurizio Borghi: “Intellectual Property and the Commons: Rethinking the Boundaries” February 2, 2023 - Public Lecture: 02 February 2023
CIPPM Seminar Series 2022-2023 October 7, 2022 - CIPPM is pleased to announce its Seminar Series for 2022-2023, which will focus on presentations primarily by PGRs and Early Career Researchers (ECRs), whilst also engaging some Senior Researchers to share their insights. The Seminar Series will be held monthly from October 2022 – May 2023. Presentations will focus on research into film, music, tattoos,... Read more » about CIPPM Seminar Series 2022-2023
CIPPM Publishes a New Report on Illegal IPTV in Europe and UK December 15, 2022 - 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
Major discovery by Dr Claudy op den Kamp in identifying the first-ever copyrighted motion picture registration October 19, 2022 - 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 CIPPM Awarded Funding for Project on Copyright and Open Norms from Around the World September 16, 2022 - 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
What do we know about the impact of coronavirus on the creative industries? August 21, 2020 - An article by Professor Ruth Towse published in the Economics Observatory, 3 August 2010. Given the wide variation in how the products of the creative industries are made and consumed, the effects of Covid-19 are very different. And given the diversity of ways of working across the industries, so too are the measures needed to... Read more » about What do we know about the impact of coronavirus on the creative industries?Economics of Copyright in the Cultural and Creative Industries – Call for Papers December 18, 2019 - Call for Papers for presentation at CIPPM one-day Workshop on 11 March 2020 and publication in the Journal of Cultural Economics
