Political Economy of Digital Regulation

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Regulation involves intervening in digital spaces.  Our approach is rooted in the analysis of power relations and how these affect key actors – states, big tech, smaller-scale players, organised civil society. We are interested in cross-regulatory challenges posed by technological transformations and the impact of geopolitics and geoeconomics on claims to digital sovereignty.

 

The theme is co-led by Martin Kretschmer and Philip Schlesinger.

PROJECTS

Project: The Law of InnovationProject: The Political Economy of Digital RegulationAI Licence Tracker
24 June 2026

AI Licence Tracker

The AI Licence Tracker monitors the emergence and development of commercial agreements made between creative content providers and AI developers.…
Calum Thomson
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Illustration generated by CHatGPT. It depicts a blue metaverse with skyscrapers and billboards displaying geometrical logos, one of which is ChatGPT's logo.Project: The Political Economy of Digital RegulationRegulatory Innovation
20 November 2025

Regulatory Innovation

As part of Political Economy of Regulation theme, integral to  the relaunch of CREATe as the Centre for Regulation of the Creative…
Martin Kretschmer
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Project: Competition & MarketsProject: The Political Economy of Digital RegulationPlatform regulation (AHRC PEC)
22 April 2023

Platform regulation (AHRC PEC)

Objectives: To map global trends, develop an analytical frame that allows assessment of implications for creative industries, and engage UK…
Martin Kretschmer
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Project: Automation, Decentralisation & PlatformsProject: Competition & MarketsProject: The Law of InnovationProject: The Political Economy of Digital RegulationPlatform regulation II (competition, contestability and innovation)
22 March 2023

Platform regulation II (competition, contestability and innovation)

Giants of the tech sector have been at the heart of competition law enforcement in recent years.  A considerable part…
Magali Eben
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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…
Martin Kretschmer
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"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…
Martin Kretschmer
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Project: Public DomainProject: The Political Economy of Digital RegulationEU copyright law in relation to AI training models
22 April 2020

EU copyright law in relation to AI training models

The mining of big data and machine learning require the compilation of corpora (e.g. literary works, public domain material, data)…
Martin Kretschmer
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