Category: News
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SCuLE Researchers lead discussions with UK voice-over industry and experts
Dr Mathilde Pavis and Dr Huda Tulti have been investigating if internet platforms designed to bring competition to the UK voice-over industry could cause low pay rates. Declining levels of pay has been a problem for years in the voice-over industries, according to industry stakeholders. The research carried out by specialists at Exeter Law School…
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SCuLE Researchers Published a Response to the 2018 Sarr-Savoy Report
SCuLE researchers Dr Mathilde Pavis and Dr Andrea Wallace published a Statement on Intellectual Property Rights and Open Access relevant to the digitization and restitution of African Cultural Heritage and associated materials in response to the 2018 Sarr-Savoy Report. The Sarr-Savoy Report was commissioned by the French government and outlines a plan for the restitution…
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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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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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Dr Mathilde Pavis awarded Canadian Research Fellowship
Dr Mathilde Pavis has received support from the UK-Canada Foundation to undertake research in Canada on the legal protection of performing artists. The UK-Canada Foundation’s grant will enable Mathilde to carry out her research in Victoria at the University of Victoria over the summer of 2018. Mathilde writes: “I am very grateful for the support…
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Finnish Ministry Representative Speaks on Contemporary Copyright Issues
Ms Ana Vuopala, Government Counsellor at the Art and Cultural Policy Department of the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland, shared her practical insight into copyright law in the digital age at Exeter Law School. Vuopala presented her work in the context of a larger intellectual property conference on intellectual property law hosted on…
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BILETA Prize for Best Presentation at International IP Conference
Exeter Law School and the New IP Lawyers network were delighted to award the BILETA prize for the ‘Best Presentation By a Doctoral Researcher’ on the occasion of their second international conference in intellectual property (IP) hosted at the University of Exeter last month. The event was entitled ‘IP in Transitions: Re-imagining IP’ and focused…
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Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes they did not Commit
Teenagers are more likely to plead guilty to crimes they did not commit because they are less able to make mature decisions, new research shows. Experts have called for major changes to the criminal justice system after finding innocent younger people are far more likely admit to offences, even when innocent, than adults. Those who…