Unlocking co-creative possibilities: CREATe follow-on engagement with UK creative economy stakeholders to improve copyright practice and policy

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The programme of engagement aims to effect a real change in the copyright practices within the UK Creative Economy with respect to the value generation through co-creation. It will be structured around four core activities.1. Co-creation in the production chain: animations and guidanceExtending animation techniques (piloted in the award winning film The Adventure of the Girl with the Light Blue Hair - http://copyrightuser.org/the-game-is-on/), copyright opportunities and risks relating to co-creation will be presented as they arise in the production process. Each of the new animated resources will address a discrete stage (and key creative sector) in the developmental lifecycle of filmmaking. New animations will be supported by comprehensive user-friendly guidance designed for independent learning and reference, helping the user to explore and consider key copyright issues relating to the creative sector featured in each new animation. The British Film Institute (BFI) and lottery funded partner IntoFilm, the UK Intellectual Property Office and the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) are collaborating partners.2. Co-creation from cultural heritage: events and guidanceThis activity seeks to improve understanding how copyright norms shape digital access to cultural heritage. Using the exemplar of Sherlock Holmes, two screening events will explore the creative reuse of the Sherlock character at the BFI Southbank in London and in Glasgow's new KelvinHall hub. The evolving journey of the notorious detective from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories illustrated by Sidney Paget to its most recent adaptations provides a compelling story to explore the role of copyright in relation to creativity, archives, and education. The events will bring together copyright law experts, film archivists and filmmakers, and will feed into new guidance through CopyrightUser.org and a new gateway - The Copyright Cortex - for UK memory institutions with the aim to unlock the creative potential of cultural heritage materials. The National Library of Scotland, the British Film Institute (BFI) and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) are collaborating partners.3. Co-creation in policy deliberation: peer production of evidenceThis activity will address neglected and under-represented stakeholder groups in the copyright policy making process, in particular micro-sized innovative firms and individual creators engaged in co-creation. We will provide new data-mining tools and open functionality via the MediaWiki software in order to facilitate a series of 'virtual town hall meetings' for these groups. This deliberative exercise will draw upon a pilot dataset of more than 600 individual scientific studies and reports, covering advertising, performance arts, music, film, photography, radio and TV broadcasting, print publishing and computer software. In consultation with a Wikimedian-in-residence, we will leverage peer-production opportunities to improve and scale up the dataset, involve new stakeholders and co-produce a shared evidence base relating to co-creation. Users will access, visualise and manipulate the evidence base and produce new findings which will support more effective policy representation. Wikimedia Foundation, N-Square Consultants and the UK IPO are collaborating partners.4. UK Research and Innovation NetworkCREATe will develop as a national catalyst, connecting expertise in law, social science and technology with stakeholders through a new national Research and Innovation Network for the Creative Economy. Three mobilisation engagements will be conducted throughout the UK, typically as part of existing industry events. These engagements will be flexibly supported with industry fellowships and commissions, responding to topical developments. CREATe will collaborate with the Scottish Games Industry at Dundee, KTN Ltd (Creative Industries) and the Digital Catapult.