Monthly Archives: March 2017

CREATe Fellow Dr Georg von Graevenitz, and CREATe Programme Leader Dr Sukhpreet Singh, were recently invited to speak at the First Asia-Pacific Workshop on Empirical Methods in Innovation, IP and Competition organized by the National Law University (Delhi, India). This post by Georg summarises CREATe’s contribution to the workshop. The First Asia-Pacific Workshop on Empirical Methods in Innovation, IP and Competition was held at National Law University in Delhi in early March 2017. The workshop brought together researchers and regulators from across the globe as well as academic participants from across India and South East Asia. Sessions focussed on the economics of IP law, the link between competition and IP law, regulation of competition and empirical research on effects of patents, … Continue reading →

Last week, Université Paris Diderot hosted a conference exploring the copyright issues raised by periodicals and newspapers in the nineteenth century. Drawing together scholars working in law and the humanities, the conference involved a shift away from the usual focus of copyright history scholarship on books. The wide-ranging programme, spanning papers on attribution patterns, customs of reprinting and re-use, as well as nineteenth century debates on copyright in news, included a paper by CREATe researcher, Dr Elena Cooper, exploring the interface between nineteenth century copyright rules regulating encyclopedias and periodicals, and the underlying social understandings of those genres. The full programme, which is available here, will lead to a special issue publication in Victorian Periodicals Review. More about the conference, … Continue reading →

On 24th May 2016 the first Copyright Education Symposium – sponsored by CREATe, ALCS, CLA, ERA, PRS for Music, the Industry Trust for IP Awareness and supported by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) – was held at the offices of the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI) in London. To inform the discussions during the event, CREATe commissioned Hayleigh Bosher (PhD, Bournemouth University) to develop An Explorative Review of Copyright Education: Studies and Resources, which was published today as a CREATe Working Paper. Together with the Working Paper, CREATe is launching a resource page on the Copyright Education Symposium 2016. The resource page includes a summary of the day, notes from the series of parallel workshop sessions, a short video … Continue reading →

Additive Manufacturing, more commonly known as 3D printing, continues to push the boundaries of Intellectual Property law whilst raising questions relating to the protection and exploitation of IP. There have been various attempts to address these questions through legal and empirical studies; yet there continues to be limited literature and debate on the implications of 3D printing surrounding IP law, industry, society, technology and policy. Booking is now open for a multi-disciplinary event at Bournemouth University that explores these questions: Going for Gold: 3D Printing, Jewellery & the Future of Intellectual Property Law Date: Friday 24 March 2017 Time: 10 am – 5pm The event is free to attend, however, places are limited and registration is required

Jane Secker, LSE and Chris Morrison, University of Kent presented interim findings from a lecture recording survey which investigated copyright and IP policies at higher education institutions at the ALT-C conference in September 2016. Thirty three institutions from a good range of Russell Group, post-92 and other universities responded to the survey and findings reveal that semi-automated lecture recording systems are becoming mainstream in UK HEIs. The use of such systems, however, raises a number of issues related to copyright and IPR that need to be addressed. The lecture presented at ALT-C provided some good practice advice for institutions and recommendations for further research. The lecture recording is now available as a CREATe Working Paper.