Follow-on Funding: Improving Deliberation, Improving Copyright

该项目的主要目的是与主要利益攸关方组织和公众共同制定一种新的磋商审议模式，以帮助政策制定者获得更好的证据来支持版权政策的制定，并可能支持媒体政策的其他领域。我们的项目目标是：(1)就版权磋商的经验与利益攸关方进行对话，并将这些见解与我们自己的研究结果结合起来；(2)与利益攸关方共同制定一个新的版权政策磋商审议模式，该模式是稳健、可持续的，并满足关键的民主原则；(3)与英国知识产权局分享该模式，作为规划未来版权磋商的工具；(4)与Ofcom探讨使用该模式就媒体政策的其他领域进行磋商的可能性；以及(5)通过利益相关者和项目团队的网络将项目成果分发到相关的决策社区。该提案借鉴了项目团队之前对社会上不同群体如何理解、传播和辩论版权的研究(见Klein，Moss和Edwards 2015)。最直接的是，它建立在AHRC最近资助的一项研究--“改善审议，改善版权”(AH/K000179/1)的基础上，该研究探索了公众如何能够更有效地参与讨论版权政策(Edwards，Moss&Karvelyte，2017)。该项目将88名公众聚集在一起，在一个周末的时间里讨论版权及其可能改变的方式。与会者热情参与了这次活动，非常珍视彼此讨论版权的机会，但他们也想了解和进一步接触其他主要利益攸关方的观点，如行业代表和创意工作者，并了解他们的意见如何为版权政策制定提供参考。通过与所有相关利益攸关方合作，考虑如何更有效地将公众声音纳入政策协商，这一后续项目直接解决了这些问题。为了实现我们的目标，该项目将采用创造性和灵活的方法，重点是通过项目设计、利益攸关方参与和最终成果进行知识共享和交流。项目首先与利益相关者团体(创意工作者、创意产业公司、中介机构、监管机构、相关政府部门和公众人士)进行深入对话，探讨他们的咨询经验，并分享我们先前研究的结果。然后，将举行为期一天的研讨会，将利益攸关方聚集在一起，共同制定一份版权磋商模式草案。我们对联合制作的重视将确保该模式将由所有参与者共同拥有，并为制定可持续、现实和更合法的版权政策提供基础。模型和报告随后将在协商规划培训活动中介绍给政策制定者和协商领导人。利益相关者将与研究人员一起介绍该模型，谈论他们在项目期间的经验，并讨论该模型的优势和局限性。所有项目成果将通过我们的项目网页开放获取，供我们的利益攸关方和其他感兴趣的团体在今后的磋商中参考和借鉴。

The main aim of this project is to co-produce, with key stakeholder organisations and members of the public, a new deliberative model for consultations that can help policymakers to obtain better evidence to support copyright policymaking and potentially other areas of media policy. Our project objectives are: (1) to engage in dialogue with stakeholders about their experiences of copyright consultations and combine these insights with the findings of our own research; (2) to co-produce, with stakeholders, a new deliberative model of consultation for copyright policy that is robust, sustainable, and satisfies key democratic principles; (3) to share the model with the UK Intellectual Property Office as a tool for planning future consultations about copyright; (4) to explore with Ofcom the possibilities of using the model for consultations about other areas of media policy; and (5) to distribute the project outputs to relevant policymaking communities via the stakeholder and project team's networks.The proposal draws on the project team's previous research into how copyright is variously understood, communicated, and debated by different groups in society (see Klein, Moss and Edwards 2015). Most directly, it builds on a recent AHRC-funded study, 'Improving Deliberation, Improving Copyright' (AH/K000179/1), which explored how members of the public can be engaged in discussing copyright policy more effectively (Edwards, Moss, & Karvelyte, 2017). The project brought 88 members of the public together over one weekend to deliberate about copyright and ways it might change. Participants engaged enthusiastically with the event and greatly valued the opportunity to discuss copyright with one another, but they also wanted to understand and engage further with the perspectives of other key stakeholders, such as industry representatives and creative workers, and to know how their input could inform copyright policymaking. By working with all relevant stakeholders to consider how the public voice can be incorporated into policy consultations more effectively, this follow-on project addresses these points directly. To achieve our objectives, the project will adopt a creative and flexible approach that focuses on knowledge-sharing and exchange through project design, stakeholder engagement, and final outputs. The project begins with in-depth dialogues with stakeholder groups (creative workers, creative industry companies, intermediaries, regulatory bodies, relevant government departments, and members of the public), which will explore their experiences of consultation exercises and share the findings from our previous research. A one-day workshop will then bring stakeholders together in order to co-produce a draft model for deliberative copyright consultations. Our emphasis on co-production will ensure that the model will be jointly owned by all participants and provides a basis for developing a sustainable, realistic and more legitimate approach to copyright policymaking. The model and report will then be introduced to policymakers and consultation leaders at a training event for consultation planning. Stakeholders will join the researchers to present the model, talk about their experience during the project, and discuss the model's advantages and limitations. All the project outputs will be open access, made available via our project webpage for our stakeholders and other interested groups to reference and draw upon in future consultations.