CREATe Events Calendar

The CREATe Trade Mark Seminar Series Spring 2023

History paper: Prof. Kathy Bowrey (UNSW) and Jose Bellido (Kent), trade mark aspects of their new book‘ Adventures in Childhood’ (CUP 2022).

We are delighted toannounce that full details for The CREATe Trade Mark Seminar Series, Spring2023, are now online, and can be found here:

https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2023/02/07/the-create-trade-mark-seminar-series-spring-2023-online-talks-by-prof-kathy-bowrey-and-dr-jose-bellido-on-trade-mark-history-and-prof-ian-ayres-and-dr-xiyin-tang-on-empirical-methods/

These areonline seminars and zoom links will be emailed a few days before the events toeveryone on this mailing list. There is no need to RSVP.  Please join if you would like to.

In summary, the events are as follows (butplease see the website for speaker biographies also):

SEMINAR 1:TRADE MARK HISTORY 

Time and place: Wednesday 8March 2023, 9am to 10am, UK time, online [PLEASE NOTE THE EARLIER TIME] 

Speakers: Prof. KathyBowrey, Universityof New South Wales, and Dr Jose Bellido, University of Kent. 

Title: ResearchingTrade Mark Histories: Records and Methodologies.  

Chair: Elena Cooper

Abstract: In1930, the American advertising and trademark lawyer, ClowryChapman, highlighted the importance and diversity of trademark records.This included preliminary interdepartmental memos, corporate resolutions,instructions to an artist, invoices, shipping instructions, waybills, ordersfrom customers, and registrations. Interestingly, he also counted in thecommodity and the container, a collection of exhibits that constituted,according to him, ‘a cycle of proof’. Taking Chapman's insight as a pointof departure, Kathy Bowrey and Jose Bellido will discusstheir experiences in researching trade mark records for theirrecent book Adventures in Childhood. Intellectual Property,Imagination and the Business of Play (CUP, 2022). In doingso, they will consider different methodologies prompted bythose records in exploring the history of intellectual property in thetwentieth century. 

Interest to Elena Cooper elena.cooper@glasgow.ac.uk

CREATe at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (Forty-Third Session) – Geneva


Date: 13-17 March 2023


A delegation of experts from CREATe – composed of Kris Erickson, Martin Kretschmer, Bartolomeo Meletti and Andrea Wallace (now at the University of Exeter) – is participating in the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (Forty-Third Session). 

WIPO SCCR/43 is taking place in Geneva on 13-17 March 2023. CREATe participation as observers has been facilitated by the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights, led by the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) of the American University, Washington, College of Law.

full details in blog


CREATe at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (Forty-Third Session) – Geneva, 13-17 March 2023 – CREATe

CREATe at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (Forty-Third Session) – Geneva


Date: 13-17 March 2023


A delegation of experts from CREATe – composed of Kris Erickson, Martin Kretschmer, Bartolomeo Meletti and Andrea Wallace (now at the University of Exeter) – is participating in the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (Forty-Third Session). 

WIPO SCCR/43 is taking place in Geneva on 13-17 March 2023. CREATe participation as observers has been facilitated by the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights, led by the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) of the American University, Washington, College of Law.

full details in blog


CREATe at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (Forty-Third Session) – Geneva, 13-17 March 2023 – CREATe

“Generative AI in the Cultural World” will be held on the 14th March from 4:00 to 6:00pm in the brand-new Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre (ARC) at the University of Glasgow.

The three guest speakers – who are important members of the academic community coming from different backgrounds and expertise – are (in alphabetical order):

• Sarah Cook (University of Glasgow);
• Lilian Edwards (Newcastle University);
• James Stewart (University of Edinburgh).

They will address fundamental issues related to GenAI models, such as the artists’ perspective on Text-to-Image (T2I) models, bias and misrepresentation in the creative industry, and possible legal solutions to a phenomenon that can easily get out of control without an appropriate regulatory system.

The Chair of the talk will be Martin Kretschmer (University of Glasgow, CREATe).

Given the importance of the topics discussed, this event aims to involve the public at large. Participation is open to anyone who is interested (subject to availability).

Please register here to attend the event in person or online.

For more information do not hesitate to contact Gabriele Cifrodelli (University of Glasgow, CREATe).

Full blog CREATe@10 Policy Futures Series: Generative AI in the Cultural World (14 March) – CREATe

https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/arc/whatson/index.html/event/12840

CREATe at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (Forty-Third Session) – Geneva


Date: 13-17 March 2023


A delegation of experts from CREATe – composed of Kris Erickson, Martin Kretschmer, Bartolomeo Meletti and Andrea Wallace (now at the University of Exeter) – is participating in the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (Forty-Third Session). 

WIPO SCCR/43 is taking place in Geneva on 13-17 March 2023. CREATe participation as observers has been facilitated by the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights, led by the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) of the American University, Washington, College of Law.

full details in blog


CREATe at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (Forty-Third Session) – Geneva, 13-17 March 2023 – CREATe

SEMINAR 2: INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES IN CURRENT TRADE MARK RESEARCH 

Time and place: Wednesday 15 March 2023, 5.30pm to 6.30pm, UK time, online. 

Speakers: Prof. Ian Ayres, Yale Law School, and Dr Xiyin Tang, UCLA School of Law.  

Title: Consumer Expropriation of Aesthetically Functional Trade Dress: Results from an Aesthetically Randomised Experiment. 

Abstract: Trade dress, as a subset of trademark law, can offer potentially perpetual protection to a product’s design or packaging features if they aid consumers in identifying a product’s source. Yet these protected design features might be valued by consumers not only because of their source identifying function, but also because consumers find the design or package features beautiful, independent of the goodwill generated by the producer. Thus, under the doctrine of aesthetic functionality, manufacturers who produce red-soled shoes or whiskey with a melted wax seal might gain what courts have called a “non-reputation-related” competitive advantage, ultimately warranting the expropriation of the protected product feature into the public domain.  

We argue that courts, in assessing questions of aesthetic functionality, should give particular weight to surveys asking consumers whether they would be better off if competitors were allowed to use a protected trade dress feature in their own products. Just as, under the doctrine of genericide, consumers are able to expropriate word marks if consumers find it more beneficial to associate the language feature of the trademark with competitors’ products, consumers should also be able to expropriate trade dress rights of a particular manufacturer if they find it more beneficial to have these design and packaging features available to the manufacturer’s competitors. Creating a genericide analog for cancelation of trade dress can further trademark’s central goal of protecting consumer welfare. 

Our Article reports “proof of concept” results of our proposed consumer surveys with regard to seven different forms of existing trade dress—including not only Louboutin’s red-soled shoes and Maker’s Mark’s red-drip wax seal, but also Gucci’s famous “diamond motif” and Emeco’s Navy chair. We implement our surveys as a between-subject randomized experiment that allows us to causally estimate the intensity of consumer preferences as well as the impact of “guiding” subjects on the likely consequences of forgoing trade dress protection. Our results, while at best suggestive, found that judicial assessments of functionality were often not predictive of consumer protection preferences. For example, a statistically significant majority indicated they would be better off if other manufacturers were allowed to produce Emeco’s Navy chair design, notwithstanding a contrary judicial holding. We also found that large consumer majorities chose to protect two iconic Veblen goods: the Louboutin shoe and the Gucci Diamond Motif, even when informed that such protection would likely lead to higher prices—indicating a desire to preserve trade dress’ power to sustain social distinction. 

Interest to Elena Cooper elena.cooper@glasgow.ac.uk 

CREATe at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (Forty-Third Session) – Geneva


Date: 13-17 March 2023


A delegation of experts from CREATe – composed of Kris Erickson, Martin Kretschmer, Bartolomeo Meletti and Andrea Wallace (now at the University of Exeter) – is participating in the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (Forty-Third Session). 

WIPO SCCR/43 is taking place in Geneva on 13-17 March 2023. CREATe participation as observers has been facilitated by the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights, led by the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) of the American University, Washington, College of Law.

full details in blog


CREATe at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (Forty-Third Session) – Geneva, 13-17 March 2023 – CREATe

CREATe at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (Forty-Third Session) – Geneva


Date: 13-17 March 2023


A delegation of experts from CREATe – composed of Kris Erickson, Martin Kretschmer, Bartolomeo Meletti and Andrea Wallace (now at the University of Exeter) – is participating in the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (Forty-Third Session). 

WIPO SCCR/43 is taking place in Geneva on 13-17 March 2023. CREATe participation as observers has been facilitated by the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights, led by the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) of the American University, Washington, College of Law.

full details in blog


CREATe at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (Forty-Third Session) – Geneva, 13-17 March 2023 – CREATe

https://www.recreating.eu/2023/01/27/recreating-europe-final-conference-brussels-21st-22nd-march-2023/

https://www.recreating.eu/2023/01/27/recreating-europe-final-conference-brussels-21st-22nd-march-2023/

Date: 22 March 2023

Title: Policy Futures Topic 3: Music for Screen in the Video on Demand Era 

Description:

Screen industries remain a central concern in a workshop to be held on Wednesday 22 March 2023 at the ARC. This workshop examining music for screen in video-on-demand (VoD) era draws on empirical research conducted in the Creative Economies and Cultural Transformations Theme of the University’s Advanced Research Centre (ARC).

In the digital age there has never been more demand for music in audio visual settings. In addition to TV and film, innumerable digital channels have emerged offering access to screen content. New-entrant video-on-demand players like Amazon and Netflix have radically reshaped the market resulting in what has been characterised as a ‘golden age’ for some sectors of the screen industries. However, this has profound implications for incumbent media companies, producers and primary creators. At the other end of the spectrum, a huge volume of content is generated by YouTubers, gamers, live streamers and other micro producers. The ubiquity of recorded music accompanying screen content is evident across the full spectrum.

The workshop will bring together researchers, primary creators, producers and other interested parties to discuss, debate and perform key aspects of copyright’s influence on commercial and creative decision-making in this complex cultural industry landscape. 

Interest to Kenny Barr 

Event lead: Kenny Barr (with Kristelia Garcia)

This event forms part of the CREATe@10 series of Spring 2023 events
https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2022/12/09/create10-policy-futures-series-at-the-arc/