Monthly Archives: December 2017

An exciting new copyright education conference is taking place at the University of Liverpool on 3rd April 2018, with sponsorship from CREATe. Icepops is the International Copyright-Literacy Event with Playful Opportunities for Practitioners and Scholars. The call for contributions is open until Monday 8th January and booking for the event is now available. CREATe are delighted to be sponsoring this event and we encourage colleagues to consider submitting an idea to present at the conference. The organisers are looking for lightning talks, world café style pitches, ideas for new games, posters and are also open to other creative approaches to copyright education – interpretative dance anyone? The keynote speakers will be Professor Ronan Deazley from Queen’s University Belfast and Alex Moseley from the University of Leicester.

Kris Erickson discusses orphan works and the EnDOW project for the Research Blog Series . Project: EnDOW: ‘Enhancing access to 20th Century cultural heritage through Distributed Orphan Works clearance’ Investigators: Lead Investigator: Professor Maurizio Borghi, Bournemouth University (Director of Centre for Intellectual Property & Policy Management), PI (Glasgow): Kristofer Erickson (now Leeds University) & Ronan Deazley (now Queen’s University Belfast), PI (Bocconi University): Lilla Montagnani, PI (IViR Amsterdam): Lucie Guibault (now Dalhousie University) In addition to the core research team, the project employs a number of PhD students and research assistants, who are assisting with tasks such as surveying the orphan works legislations of various Member States, compiling logic flowcharts and interviewing memory institutions about best practices.

CREATe has been included in The University of Glasgow’s Research Beacons — six cross-disciplinary areas of research excellence that have attracted major external investment. The aim of these themed areas of research is to raise the profile of the institution with key audiences and to strengthen further the global reputation of the University’s research. The Research Beacons bring together inspiring researchers from across the University who are working with other institutions, funders, practitioners, policy makers and charities to address grand challenges that have impact on both a national and international scale. CREATe sits under the ‘Cultural & Creative Economies‘ theme, which recognises Glasgow as an international hub for innovation in art and culture, and CREATe has been highlighted for leadership in navigating a … Continue reading →

ISHTIP (the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property) is inviting papers for its 10th Annual Workshop. The Workshop on Intellectual Property and Heritage will be held at the University of Roma Tre on 4-6 July 2018. 2018 marks the tenth anniversary of the establishment of ISHTIP, which held its first workshop in the Stationers’ Hall in London in March 2008.  The Stationers Hall, with its special place in intellectual property law and history, seemed an appropriate place to kick off an interdisciplinary society with a particular focus on the interaction of those two disciplines.  Ten years on, ISHTIP has deepened its interdisciplinary engagement providing a forum for an array of new disciplinary and critical theoretical perspectives.  Influenced … Continue reading →

CREATe’s Director Prof. Martin Kretschmer presents today at the European Parliament (December 7) a Study on the proposed press publishers right (and also on 3 articles that are designed to improve the position of authors). To be live streamed, Kretschmer’s session ‘The copyright directive: strengthening the position of press publishers and authors & performers’, where he speaks with Prof. Lionel Bently (Cambridge University), is part of the EU Parliament’s Workshop for the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI). Link to The Study (see here) Workshop Programme (see here) Agenda of Committee (see here) Recent reporting on Bently and Kretschmer’s study: Cambridge University Media Publishers Copy Buzz Ancillary Copyright EDRI Communia Association Project Disco Julia Reda MEP: https://juliareda.eu/2017/10/publishers-oppose-link-tax/ https://juliareda.eu/2017/12/extra-news-copyright-confusion/ CREATe EU policy work (see … Continue reading →

Victoria Stobo reviews her work on copyright and risk relating to a mass digitisation project at the Wellcome Library, for the Research Blog Series. Project: Copyright and Risk: Scoping the Wellcome Digital Library Investigators: Prof. Ronan Deazley (now Queen’s University, Belfast), Dr. Ian G Anderson and Ms. Victoria Stobo (University of Glasgow) What did your research aim to do? Analyse the Wellcome Library approach to rights clearance for their pilot mass digitisation project, Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics. How did you do it? A literature review explored similar examples of rights clearance studies, followed by a case study methodology, utilising semi-structured interviews at the Wellcome Library and various partner institutions to understand how the project developed, and the decision-making process at each institution. … Continue reading →

Sheona Burrow reports on an all-day workshop on licensing research datasets, held jointly by the University of Glasgow Research Information Management Services Team, Jisc and CREATe on Thursday 2nd November. The purpose of the workshop was to draw out issues around licencing of research datasets with a focus on identifying whether clarifications in terminology and guidance would be useful. Key Recommendations Create and maintain high level lay guidance and process diagrams including benefits of using specific licence types. Provide good examples of appropriate and inappropriate use of licences that researchers and users can relate to. Consider discipline specific guidance and examples e.g. music and creative media have specific complexities. Provide guidance on licencing physical media and samples. Make training on how to use … Continue reading →