Author: A.Wallace
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IP and Living Works with National Galleries of Scotland
The ‘IP and Living Works’ project will co-develop with National Galleries of Scotland best practice guidelines that clarify the IP issues at stake during the commission, acquisition and collection of ‘living works’ in the UK GLAM sector. Project Description IP and Living Works: Implementing Best Practice Guidelines for Collecting Performance Art and Time Based Media…
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Fair Pay and Fair Play in the UK Voice-Over Industry
This 8-month project examines the the impact of platform services on remuneration and contracts in the UK voice-over industry. Project Description Lending a Voice: Fair Pay/Play in the UK Voice-Over Industry Dr Mathilde Pavis in collaboration with Dr Huda Tulti Sponsor: ESRC IAA Business Boost Fund (£3,000) Project length: 8 months About the project Voiceover…
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Who Owns Outsider Art?
Within the art world, creations by artists with mental health conditions or disabilities have developed into a well-established art movement known as Outsider Art, for which the public appetite grows steadily each year. But who gets to decide whether an artwork is displayed to the public or kept within the confines of medical confidentiality? What…
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Space Law, Intellectual Property and Space Technology
Space technology a field of growing importance, for fields such as modern communications as well as areas as diverse as climate change, national security and agriculture. The legal framework within which space technology operates is integral to its development and use, but traditional legal frameworks may not be well developed to enable the flourishing of…
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UK Performers could face falling wages in the gig economy
The gig economy could drive down wages and de-professionalise the UK voice-over industry as jobs are increasingly advertised online, experts have warned. Academics are investigating if new internet platforms designed to bring competition to the UK voice-over industry could cause low pay rates. Voiceover work for radio programs, documentaries, audio-books and adverts is starting to…
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Global Food Security, Climate Change, and Resilience
The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Exeter have recently come together to create the Joint Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Resilience (ENSURE). ENSURE will bring together interdisciplinary groups of researchers from both institutions to tackle some of the major environmental and health challenges facing the world today. In recent weeks, the…
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Models could own the rights to their catwalk sashay
Models could make a claim to own the rights to the recording of their sashays and struts they use on the catwalk – and should be able to make more money from their appearances during fashion shows, new legal analysis shows. Intellectual property rights should apply to the work of models when they show off…
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SCuLE Researchers visit Hong Kong to discuss food security
At the end of June 2018, Dr Catherine Caine and Josh Martin from the Law School and Dr Annalisa Marini from the Business School at the University of Exeter visited a team of academics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) to discuss how changing dietary habits in China and the UK can impact…
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Andrea Wallace gives Keynote at New Zealand’s National Digital Forum
In November, Andrea Wallace presented her research on the impact that a claim to copyright in reproductions has on meaningful access to and reuse of the public domain at the annual NDF Conference 2017. New Zealand’s National Digital Forum is a network of people working together to enhance digital engagement with New Zealand’s culture and heritage.…