Creative Industries

The creative industries are a source of cultural riches and economic growth. What is their legal secret?

The digital revolution has moved legal questions about copyright, information and competition law to the regulatory centre of the creative industries. For investors, copyright has become a currency; users struggle with rights clearance (or ignore rights altogether); creators seek ever new ways to the market. We hear wildly conflicting claims about the value of intangible assets, about the benefits of open and closed models of innovation to firms and society. Evidence is contested and in short supply.

PROJECTS

ProjectProject: Creative IndustriesProject: The Political Economy of Digital RegulationOMeBa
11 January 2023

OMeBa

OMeBa (Online Media Behaviour Analytics) is a project developed by CREATe in collaboration with the AHRC Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre…
Project: Creative IndustriesProject: Dealing with creatorsDeveloping best practice codes for creative audiovisual re-use (H2020)
7 December 2022

Developing best practice codes for creative audiovisual re-use (H2020)

This project – part of the EU Horizon 2020 funded consortium reCreating Europe: Rethinking digital copyright law for a culturally…
Evidence viz toolProject: Creative IndustriesProject: Dealing with creatorsCopyright Evidence Portal (AHRC PEC)
6 December 2022

Copyright Evidence Portal (AHRC PEC)

Evidence synthesis and visualisation project, creating a data-minable catalogue of empirical studies relevant to copyright policy. This is a key…
Project: Creative IndustriesProject: Dealing with creatorsYou Can Play: Video Games and User Freedoms (ESRC)
22 May 2021

You Can Play: Video Games and User Freedoms (ESRC)

This project examines how player creativity is understood and regulated in the video games and eSports industry.  Copyright law tends…
Project: Creative IndustriesProject: Dealing with creatorsRights reversion project
22 April 2021

Rights reversion project

Contracts are at the heart of the creation and dissemination of creative works. Agreements concerning authors’ and performers’ rights are…
"my new television set" by brandon king is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0ProjectProject: Creative IndustriesProject: Dealing with creatorsProject: The Political Economy of Digital RegulationTerms of Trade in the Television Production Sector
12 March 2021

Terms of Trade in the Television Production Sector

This project examines the ‘terms of trade’ in UK broadcasting policy in the context of the emergence of Subscription Video…