[Centre] draft

Tue Sep 6 08:39:26 CEST 2011

Sean, all

General comment below forwarded by Ed Steinmueller as contribution to ongoing revisions. 

In the text, the participant paragraph for Sussex, re Ed, should read 
Prof. Ed Steinmueller of SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), an economist with experience in cultural and technology policy (attached brief bio with selected publications appended indicates relevant expertise).

Ed has annotated the appended version of the document sent last week, annotations in blue . These reflections essentially contribute towards the broader thrust funders will expect from the SINGLE copyright centre they'll select, thereby strengthening as Ed suggests the proposal's original components. Annotations also query jargon - mine included - so provide a useful pair of fresh eyes on this.

Apologies for this contribution being late in proceedings but Ed's points strike me as pretty crucial; we're only likely to break any ground on this subject with RCUK as a credible one-stop-shop (oh the irony!) for copyright expertise if we're seen as a bridge, rather than an island.

Best wishes

Sally Jane

Short Comment on Proposal for Copyright Centre – Ed Steinmueller

Given that there will only be one such Centre funded it is important not to be too specialized. The wording of the current proposal (I an no doubt several versions behind) suggests that we are proposing the ‘alternative centre on copyright’ which is immediately a losing proposition given the nature of the contest.  A bit more credence should be provided to the conventional logic of copyright:

1.	It provides incentives for publishers to identify and promote new talent and to engage in the promotion of works of creative content.

2.	It does raise the prospect of market power, particularly in areas which are subject to ‘network externalities’ such as software where alternative competitive products may find it difficult to compete due to the spillovers in skills (e.g. user familiarity with a particular software application) and data exchange (exchanged documents need to be revisable by others).  In other areas, however, it is generally expected that competitive alternatives will constrain market power while profit seeking will provide incentives for innovation.

3.	Individuals engaged in creative industries on a professional basis will ultimately depend upon some restraints on the copying of their work although it is true that the collapse of some forms of protection (e.g. through peer to peer sharing of music) leads to other forms of protection (e.g. gate charges to live performance).  Some creative professionals do not have a ‘performance option.’

With a little more balance, the innovative and original components of the proposal will be better highlighted.

Given our modest depth in law, I would not propose to undertake the rewriting of copyright law.  I think it is a very good idea to propose alternative assessments of the social, cultural, and economic consequences of alternative institutional arrangements for building the business models of the creative industries.

Sally Jane Norman
Professor of Performance Technologies
Director, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
Silverstone 310
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9RG
United Kingdom
www.sussex.ac.uk/acca/

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Sent: Monday, 5 September 2011 3:50 p.m.
To: Group working in the Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy
Cc: Taylor C.
Subject: Re: [Centre] draft

No worries Volker - we have some words free to indicate who we *will* be
approaching over the life of the Centre,

I've redrafted the first two sections - will carry on after shopping -
soemthing of a mission here as it involves a four mile bike ride

Best

sean
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On 05/09/2011 15:22, "Volker Grassmuck" <vgrass at rz.hu-berlin.de> wrote:

>
>Am 05.09.2011 um 14:29 schrieb Cubitt S.R.:
>
>> Volker asked on Thursday 11/08 "I have not approached Google or OSI.
>> Should I try? Does anyone have good contacts with them? The only
>>personal
>> contact I have is with Vera Franz at OSI. I could contact someone at
>> Google Germany, but that might not work for a project in the UK." It
>>would
>> be fantastic if you could approach them - in the case of Google germany
>> perhaps to ask for a contact in Google UK?
>
>Dear Sean,
>
>I¹ve e-mailed Vera. Her out-of-office reply says that she¹ll be back on
>12 September. As for Google, I will only be back in Berlin on Wednesday
>night. Contact would require phone call with the possibility of follow-up
>meeting. Given the short time left it¹s not feasible. I¹m sorry, I should
>have acted on these ideas when they had come up originally.
>
>I¹ve sent the template for the letter or support to Communia. No response
>yet from IvIR.
>
>Best,
>Volker
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