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
From Still to Moving Images: A New Look at Cinema’s Legal Birth August 20, 2024 - 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
CIPPM researchers present findings from copyright open norms project at UKIPO and European Commission May 29, 2024 - On Wednesday 22nd May and Friday 24th May 2024, CIPPM researchers, Dinusha Mendis, Benjamin White and Dukki Hong were invited to present their research on copyright and open norms in seven jurisdictions at the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) and European Commission respectively. The project funded by Knowledge Rights 21 explores the adoption, use and... Read more » about CIPPM researchers present findings from copyright open norms project at UKIPO and European Commission
CIPPM research on AI and copyright featured on BBC News and The Conversation January 27, 2024 - CIPPM Director, Prof. Dinusha Mendis was featured on BBC News on 27th December 2023 in giving her opinion on the recent complaint filed by New York Times against OpenAI. In the complaint lodged at the Federal District Court in Manhattan, the New York Times (NYT) alleged that OpenAI had unlawfully used millions of its copyrighted... Read more » about CIPPM research on AI and copyright featured on BBC News and The Conversation
John Marsonet’s ‘Persistence of Vision’: Reimagining Early Cinema October 7, 2023 - In the 2023 Raindance Film School Student Showcase, filmmaker John Marsonet unveiled ‘Persistence of Vision,’ a compelling (speculative) documentary that breathes new life into the origins of motion picture technology. Through meticulous research and innovative storytelling, Marsonet explores the work of William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, a pioneering figure in early cinema. CIPPM researcher and Principal... Read more » about John Marsonet’s ‘Persistence of Vision’: Reimagining Early Cinema
CIPPM Researcher Uncovers the Hidden Narrative of Motion Picture Invention July 1, 2023 - The invention of motion pictures wasn’t a single eureka moment, but rather a complex interplay of science, technology, art, and law. During Dr Claudy Op den Kamp’s Lemelson Center fellowship, she explored this rich history through an unexpected lens: copyright registration practices. At the centre of this story is the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893,... Read more » about CIPPM Researcher Uncovers the Hidden Narrative of Motion Picture Invention
Mermaids, Myths, and Copyright: A Dive into Cultural Storytelling May 24, 2023 - The enduring appeal of mermaid stories and their complex relationship with copyright law took centre stage in a recent episode of BBC’s Free-Thinking podcast. Hosted by Shahidha Bari, the discussion brought together experts to explore how these maritime legends continue to captivate and evolve across different cultures and media. The timing was particularly relevant, coinciding... Read more » about Mermaids, Myths, and Copyright: A Dive into Cultural Storytelling
Copyright in the Metaverse March 7, 2023 - 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 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
A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects – now published July 8, 2019 - A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects (Cambridge University Press) is a book that focuses on 50 objects to tell a history of the intellectual property system, and why it matters today. The book brings together an interesting group of interdisciplinary scholars to tell a wide-ranging audience why they should care about intellectual property.... Read more » about A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects – now published
Ruth Towse – research visit to Australia September 5, 2018 - CIPPM co-director professor Ruth Towse has delivered a series of keynotes in Australia, in the course of a two-weeks research trip where she visited Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Here is her report of the visits. In addition to attending the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) conference which was held at RMIT, Melbourne, I linked... Read more » about Ruth Towse – research visit to Australia
Education Screening Event on Copyright & Creative Reuse at BFI January 22, 2018 - Together with Ronan Deazley (Queen’s University Belfast), Bartolomeo Meletti (CREATe, University of Glasgow / BFI), and Annabelle Shaw (BFI), CIPPM researcher Claudy Op den Kamp co-curated a one-day event at the BFI Southbank on 8 December 2017, on Copyright & Creative Reuse. The event explored the role of copyright in relation to creativity, film archives,... Read more » about Education Screening Event on Copyright & Creative Reuse at BFI Exploring International Copyright’s Gaps and Flexibilities October 21, 2017 - Ruth Towse took part in the Kernochan Center’s 2017 Symposium “Exploring International Copyright’s Gaps and Flexibilities” held at Columbia Law School, on October 6. The main theme of the Symposium was that international copyright treaties, particularly the Berne Convention and TRIPS may never be revised again, though the world has changed enormously since their promulgation.... Read more » about Exploring International Copyright’s Gaps and Flexibilities
CIPPM Researchers at Copy Ethics Conference 2017 July 28, 2017 - CIPPM Researcher Dr. Claudy Op den Kamp and CIPPM Visiting Fellow, Mr. Bartolomeo Meletti were invited to speak at the International Copy Ethics conference, which was held from 11-14 July 2017 at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld. The conference was the closing event of a multi-year research project on the... Read more » about CIPPM Researchers at Copy Ethics Conference 2017
Economics of copyright at the ALAI Congress in Copenhagen May 30, 2017 - The ALAI Congress 2017 was held at the University of Copenhagen on 18-19 May 2017. Ruth Towse was invited to take part and present in the panel on Economics of copyright. Here is professor Towse’s report on the Congress. The ALAI (International Literary and Artistic Association) 2017 conference, title ‘Copyright, to be or not to be’, met... Read more » about Economics of copyright at the ALAI Congress in Copenhagen
‘Metall auf Metall’. The German Federal Constitutional Court rules on hip hop sampling April 10, 2017 - Marc Mimler's case review of the German Federal Constitutional Court's decision on the permissibility of sampling which is widely used in hip hop and electronic music.
The Paper Print Collection: How Copyright Formalities and Historical Accidents Led to Film History March 13, 2017 - Article of Claudy Op den Kamp published in the University of Western Australia Law Review
Copyright auctions and the asset value of copyright works January 2, 2017 - Article by Ruth Towse in the Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, vol. 13(2) (2016)
The Artful Economist: A New Look at Cultural Economics December 1, 2016 - The book, edited by Ilde Rizzo and Ruth Towse, is dedicated to the memory of Professor Sir Alan Peacock, with whom the editors and many of the contributors have collaborated. Alan was one of the first people to work in cultural economics and made seminal contributions to a range of topics in the field. The... Read more » about The Artful Economist: A New Look at Cultural Economics Ruth Towse awarded Distinguished Fellow of ACEI September 23, 2016 - CIPPM Co-Director Professor Ruth Towse has been conferred the honour of Distinguished Fellow of the ACEI (Association for Cultural Economics International). In his article on the Journal of Cultural Economics, professor David Thorsby illustrates the exceptional contribution that Ruth Towse has made to the discipline over more than thirty years, and concludes that “Ruth Towse’s long and distinguished career have... Read more » about Ruth Towse awarded Distinguished Fellow of ACEI
Working paper: Researching song titles, product cycles and copyright in published music July 11, 2016 - Ruth Towse and Hyojung Sun published the working paper Researching song titles, product cycles and copyright in published music: problems, results and data sources The purpose of this Working Paper is to pass on our experience of research on song titles and product cycles in UK music publishing which was intended to provide evidence of the impact... Read more » about Working paper: Researching song titles, product cycles and copyright in published music
The WINIR Symposium on Property Rights April 12, 2016 - 4-6 April, University of Bristol Ruth Towse attended the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) Symposium on Property Rights which attracted academics from all over the world with a seeming predominance of legal experts. WINIR has its focus on three core disciplines: economics, law and sociology, each of which was represented in the three... Read more » about The WINIR Symposium on Property Rights Economics of music publishing: copyright and the market March 15, 2016 - Article of Ruth Towse published on the Journal of Cultural Economics
CIPPM Project Copyrightuser.org wins AHRC Research in Film Award November 13, 2015 - An animated film on Copyrightuser.org titled The Adventure of the Girl with the Light Blue Hair won an AHRC Research in Film Award on 12 November 2015 at an Awards Ceremony hosted at the British Film Institute, Southbank London. Copyrightuser.org is an online resource, which makes copyright law accessible to creators, teachers, students and members of... Read more » about CIPPM Project Copyrightuser.org wins AHRC Research in Film Award
Dinusha Mendis Speaks on Copyright Policy at the Autumn Green Party Conference 2015 September 25, 2015 - The Autumn Green Party Conference took place at the Bournemouth International Centre on 25-28 September 2015 and it was the first time the Green Party Conference was held in Bournemouth. Dr. Dinusha Mendis was invited to speak on the Copyright Policy Panel on Friday 25th September 2015. Dr. Mendis focused on the copyright term, the new copyright... Read more » about Dinusha Mendis Speaks on Copyright Policy at the Autumn Green Party Conference 2015
CIPPM Researchers Present at the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Conference September 5, 2015 - The 10th Annual Conference of European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) was hosted by CREATe, the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy at the University of Glasgow, on 2 and 3 September 2015. Opening the conference in the beautiful setting of the Chapel, Professor Ian Hargreaves, Professor of Digital Economy and the author... Read more » about CIPPM Researchers Present at the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Conference
Alternative Compensation Systems for Digital Copyright July 31, 2015 - Ruth Towse was invited to present a paper to a high-level symposium on alternative modes of regulating large-scale non-commercial online uses of copyrighted works, organized by the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam, on 11 July 2015. Professor Towse’s speech in the Economic panel “alternatives to the current modes of financing... Read more » about Alternative Compensation Systems for Digital Copyright
Understanding UK Copyright Law: An Interactive Workshop for Music Writers and Composers March 30, 2015 - Post by Bartolomeo Meletti, Lead Producer of CopyrightUser.org, a co-production between CIPPM (Bournemouth University) and CREATe (University of Glasgow). On Thursday 19th March 2015, the Digital Catapult Centre hosted the second in the series of workshops entitled ‘Understanding UK Copyright Law’, a joint initiative of the Digital Catapult, CREATe, CopyrightUser.org, and the Copyright Hub. The purpose of these workshops is... Read more » about Understanding UK Copyright Law: An Interactive Workshop for Music Writers and Composers
Making sense of Digital Rights Management in Videogames February 5, 2015 - 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
CIPPM Members present research co-funded by the UKIPO and ESRC on Copyright and the Public Domain January 7, 2015 - The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management’s Co-Director, Dr. Dinusha Mendis and CIPPM Member, Dr. Fabian Homberg presented their research on ‘Valuing the Public Domain’ – a collaboration with CREATe, University of Glasgow – on 5th December 2014, at Digital Catapult, London. ‘Valuing the Public Domain’ is a major research and knowledge exchange project... Read more » about CIPPM Members present research co-funded by the UKIPO and ESRC on Copyright and the Public Domain
CIPPM Researchers present at CREATe’s All-Hands Meeting September 20, 2014 - CIPPM Researchers Professor Maurizio Borghi, Dr. Marcella Favale, Dr. Fabian Homberg, Mr. Conor O’Kane, Mr. Bartolomeo Meletti, Dr. Dinusha Mendis and Professor Ruth Towse attended the All-Hands Meeting hosted by CREATe, University of Glasgow on 15-16 September 2014. Set in the beautiful Mackintosh Suite of House for an Art Lover (designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh), the... Read more » about CIPPM Researchers present at CREATe’s All-Hands Meeting
Copyright and business models in music publishing: an historical analysis September 20, 2014 - The preliminary results of the AHRC-funded project Evolution in Music Publishing: Economic Strategies, Business Models and Copyright are presented by Professor Ruth Towse to the CREATe All Hands Conference, Glasgow 15 -16 September, 2014. Copyright and business models in music publishing: an historical analysis Music publishing is a fruitful industry in which to study copyright and... Read more » about Copyright and business models in music publishing: an historical analysis
Ruth Towse: The impact of digitization on copyright collecting societies September 12, 2014 - Professor Ruth Towse presented the paper ‘The impact of digitization on copyright collecting societies’ at the European Policy for IP (EPIP) Conference 4-5 September, Brussels. The established view of copyright collecting societies on the part of copyright economists, the courts and regulators is that their natural monopoly is justified on efficiency grounds. Besides its effects... Read more » about Ruth Towse: The impact of digitization on copyright collecting societies
Copyrightuser.org Updated to Reflect Changes in UK Copyright Law July 18, 2014 - Copyrightuser.org – a co-production between CIPPM Bournemouth University and CREATe, University of Glasgow – has been updated in light of the changes to UK copyright law made on 1 June 2014. Learning from the difficulties encountered by other initiatives in the field of copyright education, the Copyright User project aims at keeping up with the evolving copyright landscape. Copyrightuser.org offers... Read more » about Copyrightuser.org Updated to Reflect Changes in UK Copyright Law
Ruth Towse on the Digital Copyright Exchange June 27, 2014 - Could technology override economics in the case of the Digital Copyright Exchange? Economic analysis of collective rights administration has so far strongly supported the natural monopoly case for single national collecting societies for particular bundles of rights protected by territorially based copyright law and the courts have gone along with that view. Digitization in the... Read more » about Ruth Towse on the Digital Copyright Exchange
Launch of Copyrightuser.org in London March 12, 2014 - The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) together with CREATe, University of Glasgow launched the Copyrightuser.org at The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Creative Economy Showcase. The event was held at Kings Place, London, on Wednesday 12th March 2014. The Showcase demonstrated the outputs and innovations of AHRC investments in the Creative Economy... Read more » about Launch of Copyrightuser.org in London How Can Creativity Foster the EU Economy? February 5, 2014 - Ruth Towse was invited to give the keynote talk ‘How Can Creativity Foster the EU Economy?’ to a meeting organized in Barcelona on 17th January by the ICEC – Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies, part of the Ministry of Culture of Catalunya. There were representatives of 225 companies present. Besides Ruth Towse’s talk, which tried to clarify... Read more » about How Can Creativity Foster the EU Economy?
Professor Ruth Towse visiting University of Canterbury, New Zealand September 11, 2013 - CIPPM Co-Director Professor Ruth Towse has been invited by the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) as visiting fellow for her work in cultural economics, in the frame of the Erskine Programme. During her permanence in the Southern Hemisphere, Professor Towse will also be visiting Australia where she shall give seminars at MacQuarie University in Sydney... Read more » about Professor Ruth Towse visiting University of Canterbury, New Zealand
AHRC grant awarded for project on music publishing July 25, 2013 - CIPPM received a grant from AHRC to carry out a two-year research project on “Evolution in music publishing: economic strategies, business models and copyright”. A team of researchers coordinated by Professor Ruth Towse (Co-Director of CIPPM) will analyse the strategies of the music publishing industry over a long period of time as it adapted its... Read more » about AHRC grant awarded for project on music publishing
