Monthly Archives: September 2013

Curated by Prof. Martin Kretschmer & Dr Sukhpreet Singh Saturday 12th October 1100 – 1400 CREATe takes ‘digital’ seriously. In the recent past CREATe academics have experimented with new forms of research communication:

In July 2013, the Develop Conference hosted a programme of over 80 sessions, tracking the current videogame industry developments and trends. For three days, the renowned annual conference (organised by Develop Magazine, a trade publication with a circulation of 300,000) welcomed videogame professionals from around Europe to Brighton, in a programme shaped by and for some of the key figures in the industry. As part of the Copyright and Games project, and having made some initial forays into literature on the development of business models, creative platforms and payment mechanisms, Develop provided an opportunity to see exactly what the industry was talking about, and how they were discussing it with one another. Continue reading →

The 6th Annual Media Education Summit was held 19th and 20th September in Sheffield. As a newly-appointed research fellow with CREATe, the event provided an opportunity to observe how researchers in the media education field are engaging with IP-related questions, and to explore ways that the CREATe consortium might contribute to debates in media education. The conference, which is organised by Bournemouth University’s Centre for Excellence in Media Practice, attracts a diverse and international range of attendees including policymakers, media teachers and media studies academics.

Ofcom has today published the final findings of a year-long study into how and why internet users access music, films, TV programmes, software, books and video games online – both legally and illegally. The fourth wave of the Online Copyright Infringement Tracker shows results for the period March – May 2013. The High Volume Infringers Analysis Report considered the behaviour of the most active copyright infringers over the period May 2012 – May 2013. This report’s findings include: Over the year, 17% of internet users infringed copyright online; 2% of internet users were responsible for 74% all online copyright infringement; However, infringers also accounted for 32% by volume, and 40% by spend, of legally consumed digital content, spending more on average than … Continue reading →

Preparations are now well under way for the Archives & Copyright: Developing an Agenda for Reform conference which is due to be held at the Wellcome Library on the 27th September 2013. Registration opened in June and reached capacity at the beginning of July; clearly copyright law continues to be a matter of real concern for the UK archive community. The proposed library and archives exceptions to UK copyright law are currently under draft review, and consideration of these forthcoming legislative changes will occupy much of the discussion on the third panel of the conference programme. Robin Stout and Nick Munn, of the Intellectual Property Office, will present the latest iterations of the draft exceptions, while also speaking to the … Continue reading →