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Reports for the UK Government on IP Implications of 3D Printing

CIPPM researchers Dr. Dinusha Mendis and Dr. Davide Secchi together with Dr. Phil Reeves of Econolyst Ltd have published a sequence of three reports on the intellectual property implications of 3D printing resulting from a project commissioned by the UK Intellectual Property Office. In 2012, the Big Innovation Centre, in their Report ‘Three Dimensional Policy:… Read more » about Reports for the UK Government on IP Implications of 3D Printing

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 of coffee capsules you put in your espresso machine. This is Digital Rights Management (DRM). The Madrigal project has been awarded a Fusion Investment… Read more » about Making sense of DRM in game development (Madrigal)

Economic Survival in a Long Established Creative Industry: Strategies, Business Models and Copyright in Music Publishing

Sheet music for Mozart's Coda Sonata in C Major

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

Sharing KnowledgE Assets: InteRregionally Cohesive NeigHborhoods (SEARCH)

This Project is funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development in the ‘Socio-economic sciences and the humanities’ area (2011-2014) The main objective of this project is to strengthen the integration process between the EU and the Neighbourhood Countries (NCs), by improving the understanding of the institutional framework… Read more » about Sharing KnowledgE Assets: InteRregionally Cohesive NeigHborhoods (SEARCH)

Valuing the Public Domain

This project funded by the ESRC and the UK Intellectual Property Office provides for a knowledge exchange scheme which brings together academics (from the disciplines of law, media & communication studies, management and economics), policy makers from the UK Intellectual Property Office (an executive agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) and media businesses (in… Read more » about Valuing the Public Domain