The competition law team is an integral part of CREATe's Spring School on Platforming Creativity. In April 2024 CREATe joins forces with reCreating Europe to bring together expertise of copyright, competition and tech regulation scholars in a single space. This interdisciplinary school on ‘Platforming Creativity’ uses different lenses to consider the effects digital technology and platforms have on the cultural and creative industries, and how those effects are being addressed by legislators and policy makers in Europe.

Cultural and creative industries play an important role in modern economies, fostering innovation, creating jobs, and significantly contributing to economic growth. But their primary role is that of fostering cultural diversity and development of our society, providing an outlet for people’s creativity and expression. Digitalisation and rapid technological progress have created unprecedented opportunities for creators, bringing diversity of available content. At the same time, access to cultural and creative goods is now mediated by a new class of gatekeepers, particularly digital platforms, exacerbating the imbalances between content creators and producers. The changing dynamics within the creative and cultural industries, together with the Covid-19 pandemic and the recent raise of generative AI tools, resulted in the European legislators’ activism, not limited to the copyright domain. Digital platforms have had profound effects on the cultural and creative industries, which are being considered to varying extent by legislators and policy makers in Europe.

The Spring School will address the current discussions from three perspectives: creativity (copyright), markets (competition law) and technology (tech regulation), with each perspective addressed on a separate day. All three perspectives are brought together on the last day, during a distinguished keynote.

Find out more at: https://www.create.ac.uk/get-involved/spring-school/

 

First published: 12 February 2024

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