Authors’ Earnings in the UK
This policy briefing sets out areas for possible policy action, proposed by the researchers at CREATe who conducted a survey of UK writers for the Authors’...
Channel 4: Streaming on the world stage? Competing in the Changing Media Landscape
On April 28th, ‘The Government’s Vision for the Broadcasting Sector’ (CP 671) was published. The White Paper comes in the wake of consultations and inquir...
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 between two diverging principles in regulating online conte...
The emergence of platform regulation in the UK
A discussion paper examining the emerging field of platform regulation in the UK...
The Regulation of Online Platforms: Mapping an emergent regulatory field
This policy brief is designed to accompany the Discussion Paper,The Emergence of Platform Regulation in the UK: an Empirical-Legal Study. Both this brief a...
Gating the gatekeepers
The responsibilities of platforms for their content is changing, in the UK, in the EU and globally The 15th December 2020 will be remembered as a momentous day ...
UK sovereignty: A challenge for the creative industries
Under the three word strapline, Check, Change, Go, a new campaign aims to prepare the UK for the end of the “transition period” on 31st December 2020. ...
Streaming culture
Looking back at the rise of streaming Over the past decade, digital technologies have brought huge changes in how we consume culture, from being able to re-watc...
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 statistics do not account for royalty payments. Trade agreements...
Regulating a platform economy
The Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) offers a unique opportunity to respond to a dramatic challenge to the industrial organisation of the cr...