Honoured to have presented the research on #copyright #metaverse at 早稲田大学 Waseda University I have had the most amazing time in Japan/Waseda - a truly wonderful country with amazing people, places and food! Thanks to #JSPS for the fellowship and 上野達弘 Tatsuhiro UENO for the research collab!

Great consultation response by Culture, Media and Sport Committee on #NFTs and #blockchain - risks to sports and culture Great to see the views of #IP academics such as myself and Hayleigh Bosher cited in the report in relation to #copyright #advertising Research @ Bournemouth University Hum&Law Bournemouth Uni CIPPM @policyBU Bournemouth University Law Review

What does it mean to think of a constitution as the autobiography of a people? Jacques de Ville UWC Faculty of Law explores the issue through a reading of #Nietzsche and #Derrida in his new article: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

So many twists and turns in this #LordoftheRings / fan fiction #copyright case Court rules that fan fiction #FellowshipoftheKing infringes Tolkien’s copyright That is after the fan fiction author sued the Tolkien estate for infringing his copyright! bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

Are you a carer working in UK higher education? Marie-Pierre Moreau is researching this area and would be grateful for your input angliaruskin.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/national-carer….

⚖️“It is hard to tell what the future of criminal legal aid will be.” Criminal defence solicitor Chloe Jay chloe jay writes in Law Society Gazette about the unsustainability of criminal legal aid work, as the govt refuses to raise criminal legal aid fees. ow.ly/QLpk50Qk4vV

After 25 years, I've decided to step down as Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice. I advised 6 successive LCJs, starting with Lord Bingham in '98. It's been the great privilege of my career to advise the senior Judiciary on legal & court technology judiciary.uk/richard-susski…

[Guest post] Bad Bunny shoo shooes anyone liking AI-generated song replicating his style and voice – is he right? ift.tt/MrOCvbF

Still a few weeks to apply for one of the 23 European Master in Law, Data and AI full scholarships for the 2024-26 edition! If you are interested in law, #data #AI and want to know more, we have organised this webinar for you! 💻📆🤓👇

Big news today in #AI and #IP UK Supreme Court rules that an inventor *has* to be a natural person and cannot be an AI application! So there we have it… Humans = 1; AI = 0 #patents #thaler #DABUS bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/…

Delighted to have been invited to share my thoughts with BBC News (UK) on the latest #AI #copyright issue involving #NYTimes suing OpenAI #chatgpt for infringing copyright in their articles. You can catch it on BBC iPlayer (BBC News, 6 pm yesterday-27th Dec) nytimes.com/2023/12/27/bus…

📢🗓️Join us at the next 'Reflections on Culture' event, Tuesday 23 January, 6.00pm. Professor Murray Pittock MP will give a talk about cultural tourism, brand value and their economic impact. For details and registration, please visit our website: create.ac.uk/blog/2024/01/1….

Are you joining BU this month? Make sure you check out our Welcome App, it has all the information you need to help you ease into university life and a schedule of all our welcome activities and events. ow.ly/Tysg50QqWX2

As the New York Times launches a lawsuit against the creator of ChatGPT for copyright infringement, Prof. Dinusha Mendis (Prof Dinusha Mendis) writes for The Conversation about the potential impact of AI on copyright law: theconversation.com/how-a-new-york…

So great to have you here at Research @ Bournemouth University CIPPM A warm welcome (and soon it will actually be warm too 😊)! cc Marcella Favale Suelen Carls Katharine Cox Bournemouth University Law Review

Delighted to host Pauline Beck from ⁦Intellectual Property Office UK⁩ speaking about Gender profiles in worldwide #patenting for CIPPM seminar Shocking to see the ‘leaky pipeline’ - reduction of women in the STEM fields. Many reasons why we should care! ⁦Hum&Law Bournemouth Uni⁩ ⁦Marcella Favale⁩ ⁦

Relaunch of ⁦CREATe⁩ supported by ⁦Arts and Humanities Research Council⁩ Delighted to be a part of the relaunch on this special and historic day. Many congrats to the ⁦CREATe⁩ team!

Looking forward to presenting my paper at SLSA University of Portsmouth on designing the #metaverse with perspectives from Japan and UK cc BU Law Research Network (LRN) CIPPM Bournemouth University Law Review Hum&Law Bournemouth Uni Research @ Bournemouth University

Big news! CIPPM launches #IP summer school in collaboration with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (6th - 17th May 2024). To register and find out more please follow link 👉🏼 microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk/cippm/2024/03/… Please RT! Andres Guadamuz Hayleigh Bosher Lilian Edwards CREATe Dr. Andrea Wallace Jane Cornwell

The pleasure was mine! Exciting brainstorming session with CIPPM people :)