AI, Intellectual Property and Regulation
Introduction
Exploring the ways in which people’s rights to benefit from their creative products and services are protected, and how the emergence of new technologies challenges regulators.
Publications and Posts
The emergence of platform regulation in the UK
A discussion paper examining the emerging field of platform regulation in the UK
Television production, international trade and pressures to consolidate
The UK television production sector is one of Britain’s leading creative export sectors. This briefi…
The birth of neo-regulation. Where next for the UK’s approach to platform regulation?
A new era of tech regulation is about to begin. However, planned legislation is leading to a tension…
The Regulation of Online Platforms: Mapping an emergent regulatory field
This policy brief is designed to accompany the Discussion Paper,The Emergence of Platform Regul…
On-Demand Culture: How the lockdown is changing games and streaming services
Covid-19 regulations and restrictions have meant conventional forms of leisure and culture have eith…
Understanding how our habits of cultural consumption changed during lockdown – wave 9 data
Insights from the nine-week study into consumers cultural consumption habits – data from wave …
As lockdown eased: How our habits of cultural consumption at home are changing
The outbreak of COVID-19 and the halt on many cultural and creative activities, from live music, to …
Artificial intelligence, levelling-up and R&D: the PEC’s response to the Spending Review 2020
We analyse the Spending Review and the extent our recommendations feature in today’s announcem…
Calling for a UK Centre for AI and the Creative Industries
A letter of support from the tech and creative sectors ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review An…
Press release: How big data and machine learning can be used to generate more meaningful insights on gender inequality
Measuring gender imbalances in reporting on the creative industries Researchers analyse over half a …
Taking stock of the Creative Industries Sector Plan
We summarise some of the key sector-wide announcements from the Creative Industries Sector Plan.
Copyright and AI – a new AI Intellectual Property Right for composers, authors and artists
Background The new technology landscape emerging from the super rapid progress in developing AI, Gen…
Copyright protection in AI-generated works: Evolving approaches in the EU and China
Prof Kristofer Erickson discusses the different approaches the EU and China have taken in response t…
Copyright protection in AI-generated works
Timely exploration of copyright law and AI generated creative content
New research suggests regulation could actually enhance user-creativity on the platform giants
Video-sharing platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo, and TikTok provide a free space for everyone to shar…
Gating the gatekeepers
The responsibilities of platforms for their content is changing, in the UK, in the EU and globally T…
Accessing new ideas on intellectual property
How can creative businesses make the most of IP? How has technology affected the way we access scien…
Shedding light on the workings of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
What happens when your copyright is infringed and the infringer won’t pay up or won’t stop infringin…
Discontent industries? Creative works and international trade law: making sense of ‘analogue’ IP rules in a digital age
The global economic order fails to understand the creative industries as producing trade. Trade stat…
Regulating a platform economy
The Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) offers a unique opportunity to respond to a…
