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The CREATe Working Paper series is an open access resource designed to rapidly disseminate original research by CREATe investigators and associated scholars to the wider community. In addition to ensuring that new research becomes immediately available to the public in this rapidly-changing field, the series captures digital outputs which are not traditionally suited to the academic format but which nevertheless serve as anchor points for discussion, debate and advancement of understanding.

New additions to the series are made constantly throughout the year. Types of papers published include 1) specially commissioned pieces on topical issues related to intellectual property and the creative economy; 2) scoping reviews of relevant literature and methodologies; 3) digital transcripts of live conferences and workshops; and 4) research outputs which may include pre-prints of articles or papers under development by CREATe affiliated researchers.

The Editorial Board of the CREATe Working Paper series is headed up by the CREATe directorate and includes CREATe faculty and associate researchers. For more information about the Working Paper series and submission guidelines, consult the Guidelines for Authors page.

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2020: We are reformatting the series. The complete current set of working papers can be found directly as CREATe Working Paper Series on Zenodo.

2021

Introduction to Art and Modern Copyright: The Contested Image
CREATe Working Paper 2021/4 (April 2021)

Elena Cooper (14 Pages)
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Copyright History in Review
CREATe Working Paper 2021/3 (April 2021)

Elena Cooper (21 Pages)
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The Law of Data Scraping: A review of UK law on text and data mining
CREATe Working Paper 2021/2 (March 2021)

Sheona Burrow (88 Pages)
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A question of (e)Sports: an answer from copyright
CREATe Working Paper 2021/1 (February 2021)

Amy Thomas (23 Pages)
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2020

Copyright Law and the CJEU: A Modern Law Review Double Bill
CREATe Working Paper 2020/12 (December 2020)

Marcella Favale, Martin Kretschmer, Paul Torremans, Luke McDonagh (46 pages)
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Reversion rights in the European Union Member States
CREATe Working Paper 2020/11 (November 2020)

Ula Furgal (237 pages)
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Memes and Parasites: A discourse analysis of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive
CREATe Working Paper 2020/10 (October 2020)

Ula Furgal, Martin Kretschmer, Amy Thomas (33 pages)
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After the post-public sphere
CREATe Working Paper 2020/09 (September 2020)

Philip Schlesinger (27 pages)
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Copyright and Quotation in Film and TV
CREATe Working Paper 2020/08 (August 2020)

Lionel Bently (34 pages)
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Facebook ‘Regulation’: a process not a text
CREATe Working Paper 2020/07 (July 2020)

Leighton Andrews (95 pages)
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Improving Deliberation, Improving Copyright. Outcomes and Reccomendations.
CREATe Working Paper 2020/06 (June 2020)

Lee Edwards, Giles Moss (56 pages)
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Intellectual Property and ‘Terms of Trade’: The Challenges for Entertainment Businesses in the Emerging Platform Economy
CREATe Working Paper 2020/05 (June 2020)

Naysun Alae-Carew (25 pages)
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The production, circulation, consumption and ownership of scientific knowledge: historical perspectives
CREATe Working Paper 2020/04 (June 2020)

Aileen Fyfe (23 pages)
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Streaming Culture. Research Report by AHRC Creative Industries and Policy Centre
CREATe Working Paper 2020/03 (June 2020)

Raphael Leung, Martin Kretschmer, Bartolomeo Meletti (30 pages)
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The Fundamental Right to Property and the Protection of Investment
CREATe Working Paper 2020/02 (May 2020)

Martin Husovec (27 pages)
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Text and Data Mining in Intellectual Property Law
CREATe Working Paper 2020/01 (May 2020)

Thomas Margoni (21 pages)
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2019

Discontent Industries? Creative Works and International Trade Law
CREATe Working Paper 2019/09 (November 2019)

Antony Taubman (23 pages)
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CREATe PhD book reviews: on privacy, cultural heritage and copyright
CREATe Working Paper 2019/08 (October 2019)

Methinee Suwannakit, Zhang Jiarong, Amy Thomas (17 pages)
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Know Your Rights: What can you do when your copyright is infringed?
CREATe Working Paper 2019/07 (October 2019)

Elena Cooper, Sheona Burrow (8 pages)
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Empirical Approaches to Intermediary Liability
CREATe Working Paper 2019/06 (October 2019)

Kris Erickson, Martin Kretschmer (19 pages)
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UK Authors’ Earnings and Contracts 2018: A Survey of 50,000 Writers
CREATe Working Paper 2019/05 (May 2019)

Martin Kretschmer, Andres Azqueta Gavaldon, Jaakko Miettinen, Sukhpreet Singh (84 pages)
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Online Music in China
CREATe Working Paper 2019/04 (March 2019)

Shen, X; Williams, R; Zheng, S; Li, Y; Liu, Y; Gerst, M (51 pages)
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Online Film in China
CREATe Working Paper 2019/03 (March 2019)

Shen, X; Williams, R; Zheng, S; Li, Y; Liu, Y; Gerst, M (75 pages)
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Online Literature in China
CREATe Working Paper 2019/02 (March 2019)

Shen, X; Williams, R; Zheng, S; Li, Y; Liu, Y; Gerst, M (55 pages)
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Digital online music in China – a “laboratory” for business experiment
CREATe Working Paper 2019/01 (March 2019)

Shen, X; Williams, R; Zheng, S; Li, Y; Liu, Y; Gerst, M (40 pages)
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2018

Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning and EU copyright law: Who owns AI?
CREATe Working Paper 2018/12 (December 2018)

Thomas Margoni (21 pages)
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Television and the development of the data economy: Data analysis, power and the public interest
CREATe Working Paper 2018/10 (December 2018)

Gillian Doyle (18 pages)
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Digitising the Edwin Morgan Scrapbooks: Copyright Guidance Notes
CREATe Working Paper 2018/09 (November 2018)

Ronan Deazley, Kerry Patterson, Paul Torremans (74 pages)
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Digitising the Edwin Morgan Scrapbooks: A Research Compendium
CREATe Working Paper 2018/08 (October 2018)

Ronan Deazley, Kerry Patterson, Victoria Stobo (76 pages)
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Can creative firms thrive without copyright? Value generation and capture from private-collective innovation
CREATe Working Paper 2018/07 (September 2018)

Kristofer Erickson (10 pages)
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IP & Collaborative Agreements in the Creative Industries
CREATe Working Paper 2018/06 (September 2018)

Martin Kretschmer, Bartolomeo Meletti, Sukhpreet Singh (33 pages)
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Whither the creative economy? Some reflections on the European case
CREATe Working Paper 2018/05 (August 2018)

Philip Schlesinger (12 pages)
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‘I should like you to see them some time’: an empirical study of copyright clearance costs in the digitisation of Edwin Morgan’s scrapbooks
CREATe Working Paper 2018/04 (July 2018)

Victoria Stobo, Kerry Patterson, Kristofer Erickson & Ronan Deazley (45 pages)
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“This Video is Unavailable”: Analyzing Copyright Takedown of User-Generated Content on YouTube
CREATe Working Paper 2018/03 (May 2018)

Kristofer Erickson, Martin Kretschmer (15 pages)
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Photographic Copyright and the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court in Historical Perspective
CREATe Working Paper 2018/02 (May 2018)

Elena Cooper, & Sheona Burrow (50 pages)
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Modelling the Evolution of the TV Drama Production Sector in the UK
CREATe Working Paper 2018/01 (May 2018)

Richard Paterson (45 pages)
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2017

Living With(in) Copyright Law: What is it, how does it work, how could it change? Project Report
CREATe Working Paper 2017/10 (May 2017)

Lee Edwards, Giles Moss, Kristina Karvelyte (83 pages)
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Business Models, Intellectual Property and the Creative Industries: A Meta-analysis
CREATe Working Paper 2017/09 (June 2017)

Nicola Searle (51 pages)
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EU copyright reform: the case for a related right for press publishers
CREATe Working Paper 2017/08 (April 2017)

Thomas Höppner (37 pages)
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Digitalisation and intermediaries
in the music industry

CREATe Working Paper 2017/07 (April 2017)

Morten Hviid, Sabine Jacques, and Sofia Izquierdo Sanches (41 pages)
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From publishers to self-publishing: The disruptive effects of digitalisation on the book industry
CREATe Working Paper 2017/06 (March 2017)

Morten Hviid, Sabine Jacques, and Sofia Izquierdo Sanches (55 pages)
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A lecture recording in higher education: risky business or evolving open practice
CREATe Working Paper 2017/05 (March 2017)
Juliana Rios-Amaya, Jane Secker, and Chris Morrison (47 pages)
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An Explorative Review of Copyright Education: Studies and Resources
CREATe Working Paper 2017/04 (March 2017)
Hayleigh Bosher (21 pages)
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Copyright and Cultural Memory: Digital Conference Proceedings
CREATe Working Paper 2017/03 (March 2017)
Ronan Deazley and Andrea Wallace (eds) (107 pages)
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The competition discourse in British broadcasting policy
CREATe Working Paper 2017/02 (February 2017)
Richard Paterson (2017) (28 pages)
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Digitization and changing windowing strategies in the television industry: negotiating new windows on the world
CREATe Working Paper 2017/01 (January 2017)

Gillian Doyle (2017) (33 pages)
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2016

Press Publisher Rights in the New Copyright in the Digital Single Market Draft Directive
CREATe Working Paper 2016/15 (December 2016)
Raquel Xalabarder (2016) (24 pages)
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A Future for the Creative Economy: a report by Ruth Towse
CREATe Working Paper 2016/14 (November 2016)
Ruth Towse (2016) (16 pages)
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Fashion micro-enterprises in London, Berlin, Milan
CREATe Working Paper 2016/13 (November 2016)
Angela McRobbie, Dan Strutt, Carolina Bandinelli, Bettina Springer (2016) (54 pages)
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The creative economy: invention of a global orthodoxy
CREATe Working Paper 2016/12 (October 2016)
Philip Schlesinger, University of Glasgow (2016) (21 pages)
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Why a reform of hosting providers’ safe harbour is unnecessary under EU copyright law
CREATe Working Paper 2016/11 (August 2016)
Dr Eleonora Rosati, University of Southampton and e-LAWnora (2016), (24 pages)
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Connecting creativity, value and money
CREATe Working Paper 2016/10 (22 Jun 2016)
Bob Last, CREATe Industry Fellow (2016), (154 pages)
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The European Commission’s public consultation on the role of publishers in the copyright value chain: A response by the European Copyright Society
CREATe Working Paper 2016/09 (29 Jun 2016)
Martin Kretschmer, Séverine Dusollier, Christophe Geiger, and P. Bernt Hugenholtz (2016), (10 pages)
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DRAFT Industry Guidelines to Respect Copyright and Free Speech: Guidelines for copyright owners and intermediaries for respecting the right to freedom of expression as it relates to copyrighted works
CREATe Working Paper 2016/08 (22 Jun 2016)
Laidlaw, Emily; Mac Síthigh, Daithí (2016), (13 pages)
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From infringement to exception: why the rules on data mining in Europe need to change
CREATe Working Paper 2016/07 (27 Jun 2016)
Christian Geib (2016), (47 pages)
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The career-building strategies of individual creators: A meta-analysis of qualitative research funded by CREATe
CREATe Working Paper 2016/06 (21 Jun 2016)
Ealasaid Munro (2016), (41 pages)
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Blockchain or the Chaingang – Challenges, opportunities and hype: the music industry and blockchain technologies
CREATe Working Paper 2016/05 (11 May 2016)
Jeremy Silver (2016), (67 pages)
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What is the Point of Copyright History? Reflections on Copyright at Common Law in 1774 by H. Tomás Gómez-Arostegui
CREATe Working Paper 2016/04 (16 March 2016)
Elena Cooper and Ronan Deazley (eds), (88 pages)
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Regulating CMOs by competition: an incomplete answer to the licensing problem?
CREATe Working Paper 2016/03 (16 March 2016)
Morten Hviid, Simone Schroff and John Street (2016), (31 pages)
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Copying, Creativity and Copyright
CREATe Working Paper 2016/02 (1 February 2016)
Ronan Deazley and Bartolomeo Meletti (2016), (22 pages)
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To Pay or Not to Pay? Determinants of Unlawful Product Acquisition
CREATe Working Paper 2016/01 (7 January 2016)
Piers Fleming, Melanie Parravano and Daniel John Zizzo (2016), (53 pages)
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2015

The South Korean Music Industry: A Literature Review
CREATe Working Paper 2015/12 (16 December 2015)
Keith Negus (2015), (19 pages)
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Privacy, Security and Data Protection in Smart Cities: a Critical EU Law Perspective
CREATe Working Paper 2015/11 (3 December 2015)
Lilian Edwards (2015), (39 pages)
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Copyright and Business Models in UK Music Publishing
CREATe Working Paper 2015/10 (3 December 2015)
Ruth Towse (2015), (23 pages)
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Copyright, Football and European Media Rights
CREATe Working Paper 2015/09 (18 November 2015)
Raymond Boyle (2015), (20 pages)More details and abstract
Copyright Collectives and Contracts: An Economic Theory Perspective
CREATe Working Paper 2015/08 (31 August 2015)
Richard Watt (2015), (16 pages)More details and abstract
Is There a EU Copyright Jurisprudence? An Empirical Analysis of the Workings of the European Court of Justice
CREATe Working Paper 2015/07 (27 August 2015)
Marcella Favale, Martin Kretschmer and Paul C. Torremans (2015), (41 pages)
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Copyright and Music Policy in China: A Literature Review
CREATe Working Paper 2015/06 (24 August 2015)
John Street, Li Zhang, Maja Simuniak and Qingning Wang (2015), (44 pages)
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Inside a Cultural Agency: Team Ethnography and Knowledge Exchange
CREATe Working Paper 2015/05 (14 August 2015)
Philip Schlesinger, Melanie Selfe and Ealasaid Munro (2015), (18 pages)
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Copyright and Freedom of Expression: A Literature Review
CREATe Working Paper 2015/04 (29 May 2015)
Yin Harn Lee, with preface and summary by Emily Laidlaw and Daithi Mac Sithigh (2015), (247 pages)More details and abstract
Collective Management Organisations, Creativity and Cultural Diversity
CREATe Working Paper 2015/03 (22 May 2015)
John Street, Dave Laing and Simone Schroff (2015), (29 pages)More details and abstract
Monkeying Around with Copyright – Animals, AIs and Authorship in Law
CREATe Working Paper 2015/02 (17 March 2015)
David Komuves, Jesus Niebla Zatarain, Burkhard Schafer, Laurence Diver (2015), (11 pages)More details and abstract
Copyright and the Value of the Public Domain
CREATe Working Paper 2015/01 (10 February 2015)
Kristofer Erickson, Paul Heald, Fabian Homberg, Martin Kretschmer and Dinusha Mendis (2015), (93 pages)More details and abstract

2014

Copyright at Common Law in 1774
CREATe Working Paper 2014/16 (3 November 2014)
H. Tomás Gómez-Arostegui (2014), (57 pages)
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The Use of Privacy Icons and Standard Contract Terms for Generating Consumer Trust and Confidence in Digital Services
CREATe Working Paper 2014/15 (31 October 2014)
Lilian Edwards and Wiebke Abel (2014), (33 pages)
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User illusion: ideological construction of ‘user-generated content’ in the EC consultation on copyright
CREATe Working Paper 2014/14 (28 October 2014)
Kristofer Erickson (2014), (16 pages)
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Virtual worlds players – consumers or citizens?
CREATe Working Paper 2014/13 (28 October 2014)
Edina Harbinja (2014), (12 pages)
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Self-enforcing or self-executing? What Computational Copyright can learn from LKIF Transaction Configurations for Eurobonds
CREATe Working Paper 2014/12 (28 October 2014)
Orlando Conetta and Burkhard Schafer (2014), (19 pages)
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Report on a computer assisted copyright reform observatory
CREATe Working Paper 2014/11 (28 October 2014)
Ermo Täks, Addi Rull, Anni Säär and Burkhard Schafer (2014), (33 pages)
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The Aereo dilemma and copyright in the cloud
CREATe Working Paper 2014/10 (13 October 2014)
Monica Horten (2014), (14 pages)
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The European Commission’s public consultation on the review of EU copyright rules: a response by the CREATe Centre
CREATe Working Paper 2014/09 (13 October 2014)
Martin Kretschmer, Ronan Deazley, Lilian Edwards, Kristofer Erickson, Burkhard Schafer and Daniel John Zizzo (2014), (12 pages)
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Literature reviews as a means of communicating progress in research
CREATe Working Paper 2014/07 (4 August 2014)
Ruth Towse (2014), (8 pages)
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From organisational crisis to multiplatform salvation? Creative destruction and the recomposition of news media
CREATe Working Paper 2014/06 (14 May 2014)
Philip Schlesinger and Gillian Doyle (2014), (22 pages)
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Determinants and Welfare Implications of Unlawful File Sharing: A Scoping Review
CREATe Working Paper 2014/05 (11 April 2014)
Steven James Watson, Daniel John Zizzo and Piers Fleming (2014), (62 pages)
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Archives and Copyright: Developing an Agenda for Reform
CREATe Working Paper 2014/04 (24 February 2014)
Ronan Deazley and Victoria Stobo (eds) (2014), (118 pages)
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Research Perspectives on the Public Domain
CREATe Working Paper 2014/03 (12 February 2014)
Kris Erickson and Martin Kretschmer (eds) (2014), (58 pages)
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The Future Implications of the Usedsoft Decision
CREATe Working Paper 2014/02 (1 February 2014)
Paul L.C. Torremans (2014) (11 pages)
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Open Access Publishing: A Literature Review
CREATe Working Paper 2014/01 (17 January 2014)
Giancarlo Frosio under the supervision of Estelle Derclaye (2014) (219 pages)
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2013

Copyright & Risk: Scoping the Wellcome Digital Library Project
CREATe Working Paper 2013/10 (13 December 2013)
Victoria Stobo with Ronan Deazley and Ian G. Anderson (2013) (60 pages)
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Writing About Comics and Copyright
CREATe Working Paper 2013/9 (29 November 2013)
Ronan Deazley and Jason Mathis (2013) (45 pages)
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Intellectual Property Puts Article 6(1) Brussels I Regulation to the Test
CREATe Working Paper 2013/8 (10 September 2013)
Paul L.C. Torremans (2013) (12 pages)
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Copyright, and the Regulation of Orphan Works: A comparative review of seven jurisdictions and a rights clearance simulation
CREATe Working Paper 2013/7 (3 July 2013)
Marcella Favale, Fabian Homberg, Martin Kretschmer, Dinusha Mendis and Davide Secchi (2013), This report was commissioned by the Intellectual Property Office to support the implementation of the Hargreaves Review. (104 pages)
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Twitter (R)evolution: Privacy, Free Speech and Disclosure
CREATe Working Paper 2013/6 (3 June 2013)
Lilian Edwards, Andrea Matwyshyn (2013), This paper will be presented at the International World Wide Web Conference, May 13–17, 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and published in the WWW 2013 Companion (ACM 978-1-4503-2038-2/13/05). Copyright is held by the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2). (10 pages)
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“What happens to my Facebook profile when I die?” : Legal Issues Around Transmission of Digital Assets on Death
CREATe Working Paper 2013/5 (20 May 2013)
Lilian Edwards, Edina Harbinja (2013), Pre-print of a chapter forthcoming in “Digital Legacy and Interaction: Post-Mortem Issues” edited by Vinicius Carpe and Cristiano Maciel (Springer, forthcoming November 2013). (25 pages)
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Copyright and the Economic Effects of Parody: An empirical study of music videos on the YouTube platform, and an assessment of regulatory options
CREATe Working Paper 2013/4 (18 March 2013)
Kris Erickson, Martin Kretschmer, Dinusha Mendis (2013), published as an Independent Report for the UK Intellectual Property Office (38 pages)
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Archives and Copyright: Risk and Reform
CREATe Working Paper 2013/3 (Released 17 March 2013; Version 1.1 10 April 2013)
Ronan Deazley and Victoria Stobo (2013)
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“CCTV sniffing”: Copyright and Data Protection Implications
CREATe Working Paper 2013/2 (February 2013)
Smita Kheria, Daithi Mac Sithigh, Judith Rauhofer, Burkhard Schafer, A modified version of this paper was published as (Mis)appropriation Art? : Copyright and Data Protection implications of ‘CCTV Sniffing’ as Art. / Kheria, Smita; Mac Sithigh, Daithi; Rauhofer, Judith; Schafer, Burkhard. Abstraktion und Applikation. ed. / E Schweighofer; F Kummer; W Hötzendorfer. OCG, 2013. p. 489-98.
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What Constitutes Evidence for Copyright Policy? Digital Proceedings of ESRC Symposium
CREATe Working Paper 2013/1 (31 January 2013)
Martin Kretschmer and Ruth Towse (eds) (2013), (135 pages)
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