CREATe

ONE WEEK TO GO!
Join our 15 October (12:30 CEST) #eLending webinar presenting findings from an upcoming @create-glasgow.bsky.social report for KR21.
Gain insights into challenges, from market structure and licensing to pricing.
🔗 www.knowledgerights21.org/news-story/1...
#eBooks #eBookSOS

🚀 Busy month ahead for CREATe!

📘 𝟏𝟓 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 – 𝐄-𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 + 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫

𝟐𝟖-𝟐𝟗 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 – 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 & 𝐀𝐈 👇
🤖 28 October: AI & Interactive Worlds - Workshop
🎤 28 October: Tech Law LLM Inaugural Public Lecture
⚖️ 29 October: AI & Regulation Roundtable

Stay tuned for updates!

Our colleague @drelenacooper.bsky.social will be speaking at @rhul-cvs.bsky.social where she will launch the new online exhibition 'Painting and Copyright in the Nineteenth Century' 🖼

📅 20 November
📍Royal Holloway, Picture Gallery

Learn more 👉 www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...

FCN2025 Workshop – Exploring the Intersection of Blockchain and Policy - CREATe

📡 Our PhD student Linyi Xu has written a blog reflecting on the 2025 International Conference on Future Communication Networks (FCN 2025, IEEE) held in Belgrade 🇷🇸

Read Linyi’s reflections on the key themes and discussions here 👇
www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...

🎙️ New Public Lecture 🎙️

We are happy to welcome Monica Westin for the Inaugural Lecture of our new LLM in Tech Law and Regulation 🎉

🗓️ 28 October 2025
🕑 5:30 PM

This event is part of the UofG's Data Science and AI Festival 🤖 #DataAIFest

Read more and register here: www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...

CREATe at the AI and Data Festival 🎉

CREATe will host a workshop that brings together researchers and practitioners to explore uses of AI in interactive worlds 🤖

📅 28 October 2025
⏰ 09:00am - 12:30pm
📍 UofG Advanced Research Centre, Room 237A

Read more 👉 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...

Last weekend, CREATe joined the Explorathon Festival, run by a partnership of Scottish universities

These conversations are a valuable exercise, pushing us to reflect on the wider societal impact of our work 💡

Thank you to our colleagues who volunteered their Sunday to represent CREATe

CREATe Now Trending: The Underwhelming but Still Useful End to the US Google Antitrust Saga

🚨 Big news in tech & competition policy: the U.S. court has ruled that Google unlawfully maintained its search monopoly

In this short policy response, Konstantinos Stylianou, Magali Eben and Liana Japaridze unpack what the decision means 💡

Read more 👉 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨

The European Commission asked for public feedback on the Consumer Agenda 2025–2030 and its action plan for consumers in the Single Market 🇪🇺

CREATe joined the conversation by submitting a response 💡

Read here 👉 zenodo.org/records/1713...

📌 Kristofer Erickson, Bartolomeo Meletti & Aline Iramina – Between a rock and a hard place? Open IP licensing models in the cultural heritage sector.

We’re looking forward to connecting with colleagues, sharing insights, and contributing to the conversations shaping the future of IP policies.

📌 Ula Furgał – Remunerating journalists: an appropriate share of the unknown.

📌 Arthur Ehlinger, Martin Kretschmer & Amy Thomas – Copyright earnings and labour markets in creative industries: what have we learned from a series of UK surveys since 2006. 🧵2/3

EPIP 2025: Making Connections in Antwerp - CREATe EPIP 2025, Creators' earnings; cultural heritage, Copyright, Intellectual Property

The 20th annual European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) conference runs 10 to 12 Sept, hosted by University of Antwerp.

CREATe is proud to be part of the programme. Look out for presentations from our members 🧵1/3

CREATe's brilliant minds are on the move! This week, our researchers, @ulafurgal.bsky.social and @zihaoli.bsky.social, took the stage at the #SLS annual conference 2026 by The Society of Legal Scholars in Leeds, showcasing their cutting-edge work.👏
We hope the audience enjoyed the show by CREATe!

How to Save My AI Lover? Legal Questions Around AI Companions - CREATe AI companions are no longer just chatbots—they’re friends, partners, and lovers. But who protects users when love meets laws?

#AIcompanions are no longer just chatbots. They’re friends, partners, and even lovers. But who protects users when love meets laws? Our new blog, written by @weiweiyi.bsky.social, discusses the legal uncertainty surrounding AI companions.
Full blog ➡️: www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...

#Grok4 #GPT4o

✨ 𝗔 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿! ✨ CREATe is back for the new academic year 2025–2026. We’ll be sharing the latest updates on our projects, publications, events, and some behind-the-scenes stories along the way 📳
𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗱!📻

Copyright and AI in the UK: Opting-In or Opting-Out? Abstract. The interface between copyright law and artificial intelligence (AI) is currently the object of global attention. The UK government’s recent publ

3/3 Transparency requirements, opt-outs, the exception for text and data mining, and equitable remuneration for creatives are among the key issues we analysed in our response to the UK copyright & AI consultation, which has been published in GRUR International (academic.oup.com/grurint/adva...)

2/3 🧾 Last week, the EU also published the Template for the Public Summary of Training Content for general-purpose AI models, which includes a section on ‘Respect of reservation of rights from text and data mining exception or limitation’ (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/e...)

🧵 1/3

The EU’s General-Purpose AI Code of Practice enters into application on 2 August, with dedicated chapters on Transparency and on Copyright (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...)

Reflections on CREATe Voices in the 20th ASCOLA Annual Conference – CREATe

📢 New on the CREATe blog: Jessie Yingying Zhu Lecturer at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and former PhD Candidate at CREATe shares reflections from the 20th ASCOLA Annual Conference, held in Chicago from 26–28 June 2025 🇺🇸

www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...

👩‍⚖️ 𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬?

When you create something original - a song, a photo, a film - you automatically hold a bundle of rights under EU copyright law.

Want to understand what these rights mean in practice, and how to use them?

CopyrightUser.EU breaks it all down clearly 👉 copyrightuser.eu

The Economics of Open: Can Open Licensing Be a Sustainable Strategy for Cultural Heritage Institutions? – CREATe

💡 Have you seen our latest report 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧? No worries if not - we’ve just published a blog post summarising the key insights.

The project was conducted in collaboration with Centre for Archive Studies and funded by @creativecommons.bsky.social

👉 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...

📚 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧?

Yes – in certain cases, EU copyright law allows it.

Not sure when and how these exceptions apply? That’s exactly what 𝐂𝐨𝐩𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐫.𝐄𝐔 is here to help with 👉 copyrightuser.eu

Francesca Rotolo, postodc at Università Ca'​ Foscari Venezia, visited CREATe in May 2025 and took part in our Spring School 🎓

In this blog post, she reflects on the sessions she attended and shares her impressions of the experience ✍️

www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...

🤔 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤? 𝐎𝐫 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞’𝐬?

Understanding how copyright works are exploited is essential for anyone creating, sharing, or reusing content.

Explore your rights, and how to share or protect your work with confidence at copyrightuser.eu

Parity and Power: Steam’s Antitrust Reckoning in Wolfire v. Valve – CREATe

20 years after revolutionising PC gaming with Steam, Valve is now under legal scrutiny 🎮

In this blog post, Joost van Dreunen dives into the Wolfire v. Valve case, which raises questions about platform power and digital market regulation 💡

Read here 👉 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...

This week, we celebrated the graduation of our students, an important milestone for them and our academic community 👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓

To all our graduates: thank you for your contributions to our classrooms and the wider university life. We wish you all the best as you move into the next stage of your careers 🤝

Our colleagues Bartolomeo Meletti, Kristofer Erickson, Aline Iramina with Victoria Stobo are currently presenting their latest research on the Economics of Open Licensing Models in the Cultural Heritage Sector 💡

Read full report: zenodo.org/records/1569...

Funded by @creativecommons.bsky.social

🚨 New Report 🚨

How are cultural heritage institutions actually using open licensing in practice?

Read 👉 zenodo.org/records/1569...

Tomorrow (24 June) the authors will present the findings during a webinar: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Research funded by @creativecommons.bsky.social 🤝

Race + IP Conference: speaker’s reflections – CREATe

Panagiotis Lampropoulos, former LLM student and current Research Assistant at CREATe, reflects on his experience attending the Race + IP Conference at the University of Pittsburgh 🇺🇸👇

www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Open Culture Live: The Economics of Open. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. NOTE: This replaces the June 12, Creative Commons Open Culture Platform Meeting. The Economics of Open: A Conversation with the Authors of Open Licensing Models in the Cultural Heritage Sector Pane...

Then, on Tuesday, 24 June at 3pm UK time, Bart, Kristofer Erickson, Aline Iramina, and Victoria Stobo will launch the report "Open Licensing Models in the Cultural Heritage Sector." Register for this webinar here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi....