Copyright policy (inc. artist’s resale rights)
Attitudes and Behaviours of Consumers in the Digital Age: Policy Bulletin
The Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy proposes a new framework for looking at the consumption decisions made by consumers. This interdisciplinary conceptual framework views all types of consumer behaviour, both legal and illegal, as a rational response to a particular set of choices.
Date published: July 2010
Author(s): SABIP
Changing Business Models in the Creative Industries
This research examines the business model response to the change from analogue to digital in the creative industries.
Looking at both traditional and emerging business models, the project focuses on three sectors: television, computer games and music.
A series of six case studies, two from each sector, provide illustrative cases of the business model response to challenges to enforcement of copyright and the advent of digital technologies.
Commissioned
by: IPO / ESRC
Date
published: 19 October 2011
Author(s): Dr. Nicola Searle
This report was one of two presented and discussed at the Informing Copyright Policy workshop held at the UK Big Innovation Centre on the 19 October 2011.
This note of proceedings highlights the key points which emerged and provides some brief reflections on them.
Date published: 29 November 2011
Copyright and Contract Stakeholder Workshop 3 March 2010: Report of Proceedings
This report of proceedings highlights the key points emerging from the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy’s stakeholder workshop on the relationship between copyright and contract law, which took place on 3 March 2010.
Date published: March 2010
Author(s): SABIP
The Economics of Copyright and Digitisation: A Report on the Literature and the Need for Further Research
A critical overview of the theoretical and empirical economic literature on copyright and unauthorised copying. This report aims to identify gaps in evidence and options for further research.
Commissioned
by: SABIP
Date published: May 2010
Author(s): Christian Handke (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands).
Exploring the Case for Simplification of the Copyright Framework
Report of Proceedings of the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy’s workshop exploring the case for simplification of the UK's copyright legal framework held 16 July 2009.
Date published: February 2010
Author(s): SABIP
Film, Television & Radio, Books, Music and Art: UK Investment in Artistic Originals
This report reviews the definition of artistic originals and official estimates of investment in originals as recorded in the UK National Accounts. New data are also used to estimate the value of the UK stock of artistic originals. The report concludes that approximately £1.1bn more was invested in original artistic work in the UK in 2008 than had previously been estimated. Combining these data with new depreciation rates suggests an upward revision of £3.5bn to the UK stock of artistic originals in 2008.
Commissioned
by: IPO
Date published: July 2011
Author(s): Peter Goodridge & Jonathan Haskel
Google Books - A Policy Panel Event
The Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy organised a panel debate in February 2010 to discuss the issues raised by the proposed Google Books settlement. It was attended by representatives from Google, authors, publishers, the EC, and a wide array of stakeholders from the UK creative community.
Date published: July 2010
Author(s): SABIP
International Perspectives on Moral Rights - A Policy Panel Event
A report summarising the proceedings of an event held on 23 March 2010, exploring international perspectives on moral rights from the perspective of the UK, the USA, France and developing countries. Practitioner perspectives are provided from musicians, photographers, the BBC and Nokia.
Date published: 2010
Author(s): SABIP
Private Copying and Fair Compensation
A study on the operation of levies on copying media and equipment in the EU. This report offers the first independent empirical assessment of the European levy system as a whole.
The research consolidates the evidence on levy setting, collection and distribution; reviews the scope of consumer permissions associated with levy payments; and reports the results of three product level studies (printer/scanners, portable music/video/game devices, and tablet computers), analysing the relationship between VAT, levy tariffs and retail prices in 20 levy and non-levy countries.
Commissioned
by: IPO / ESRC
Date
published: 19 October 2011
Author(s): Professor Martin Kretschmer
- Report
(635Kb) - Study
1: Legal and policy context (457Kb)
- Study 2: Empirical
effects of copyright
levy schemes (845Kb)
- Study 3: Economic rationales (327Kb)
This report was one of two presented and discussed at the Informing Copyright Policy workshop held at the UK Big Innovation Centre on the 19 October 2011.
This note of proceedings highlights the key points which emerged and provides some brief reflections on them.
Date published: 29 November 2011
Proposed Changes to Exemptions from Public Performance Rights in Sound Recordings and in Performers' Rights: Amending the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988
This report is concerned primarily with the exemptions that charities and other not-for-profit organisations enjoy in relation to paying royalties for the use of copyright broadcast and recorded music. Changes to current arrangements are being considered.
Commissioned
by: IPO
Date published: June 2009
Author(s): Europe Economics
The Relationship Between Copyright and Contract Law
A review of the relationship between copyright and contract law addressing both supply- and demand-side issues. It covers legal and economic perspectives on copyright and contracts.
Commissioned
by: SABIP
Date published: July 2010
Author(s): Martin Kretschmer (Bournemouth University), Estelle Derclaye (University of Nottingham), Marcella Favale (University of Nottingham), Richard Watt (Canterbury University).
The Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy (SABIP) 2009-10 Annual Report
The Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy
(SABIP) was established in June 2008, as an advisory Non-Departmental Public Body. SABIP's objective was to give Ministers and the Chief Executive of the IPO independent policy advice
based on solid evidence.
The report covers the period from
1 April 2009 to 30 July 2010 when SABIP was dissolved.
Commissioned
by: SABIP
Date published: 2011
Author(s): SABIP
Scoping Study: Artist's Resale Right
A study into the likely impact of the implementation of the resale right for the benefit of the author of an original work of art.
Commissioned by: UK
Patent Office
Date published: October 2005
Author(s): IP Institute
A Study into the Effect on the UK Art Market of the Introduction of the Artist’s Resale Right
An assessment of the impact on the UK art market of the introduction of Artist’s Resale Right (ARR). The costs to business and collecting societies of administering the right and the benefits to artists are considered.
Commissioned
by: IPO
Date published: January
2008
© The Way Ahead: A Strategy for Copyright in the Digital Age
This work looks ahead to how copyright can tackle the challenges of the digital age, drawing on previous work including Digital Britain and the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property, on international perspectives and views from stakeholders.
Date published: October 2009
Author(s): BIS, IPO