It is the first day of the CREATe Spring School on Remaking Creativity. For four days, Spring School participants will explore the interplay between human creation and technology through the lenses of copyright, competition and tech regulation. It is addressed to doctoral and advanced master students, early career researchers, industry representatives, and policy makers with interest in the cultural and creative industries.
Cultural and creative industries play an important role in modern economies, fostering innovation, creating jobs, and significantly contributing to the economic growth. But their primary role is that of fostering cultural diversity and development of our society, providing an outlet for people’s creativity and expression. Digitalisation and rapid technological progress have created unprecedented opportunities for creators, widening the cultural offer available to the users, who can now partake in creative processes themselves. At the same time, technology has become a crucial intermediary: platforms and their opaque algorithms mediate access to creative goods, acting as gatekeepers, potentially flattening the cultural offering. Digital media creators, searching for new monetization opportunities, dip their toes in advertising, fusing the roles of artists and entrepreneurs more than ever before. The recent advancement in generative AI brings both hope for the automation of menial tasks, freeing creators to do what they love to do, as well as fear that their work will be exploited by big tech and that they will eventually be substituted by machines.
The School aims to provide its participants with a comprehensive understanding of the effects digital technology has on the cultural and creative industries, and how those effects are being addressed by the legislators and policymakers in Europe. The School addresses the current discussions from three perspectives: creativity (copyright), markets (competition) and technology (tech regulation), with each perspective addressed on a separate day.
The programme for the Spring School brings together a stellar linkeup of speakers:
For more information on the Spring School, visit the Spring School website here.