Kerry Patterson

A new paper in the CREATe Working Paper series is now available: Photographic Copyright and the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court in Historical Perspective by Elena Cooper and Sheona Burrow. Elena Cooper is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Copyright Law, History and Policy and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. Sheona Burrow is Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Part time). The paper provides an in-depth case study of the enforcement of copyright in photographs by some contemporary rights-owners: freelance professional photographers who derive income from the exploitation of photographic copyright. Referring to the theoretical framework of Guido Calabresi and A Douglas Melamed, the article reflects on the implications for the nature and function of copyright in a specific context today. It explores contemporary experience alongside the enforcement of copyright … Continue reading →

CREATe will be hosting a #copyrighthour on Friday 25th May at 2pm (GMT+1). Join copyright specialist and CREATe Industry Fellow Naomi Korn when she will be answering copyright questions and signposting useful resources for museums and cultural institutions. Naomi will answer through her Twitter account @NKorn with support from CREATe (@copyrightcentre) and Copyright User (@copyrightuser). Please use the hashtag #copyrighthour in questions for Naomi.

Now available is a new paper in the CREATe Working Paper series: Modelling the Evolution of the TV Drama Production Sector in the UK by Richard Paterson. Richard Paterson is a Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Professor at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research at the University of Glasgow. He was a CREATe Industry Fellow and the former Head of Research and Scholarship at the BFI. This exploratory paper considers the evolution of drama production companies in the UK against the backdrop of regulatory interventions. It poses the question of what was it that made a successful drama production company as the context of TV production changed. The full abstract and downloadable paper can be accessed from here: Modelling the Evolution of the TV Drama Production … Continue reading →