UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre (CREATe)

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CREATe is the UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre, an acronym for Creativity, Regulation, Enterprise and Technology. It was established in 2012 as a result of a national competition for a center focusing on "copyright and new business models in the creative economy". As the only UK research centre funded jointly by AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council), EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), and ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council), CREATe has developed an interdisciplinary research program at the intersection of law, technology, social sciences, and humanities.

In 2017, CREATe received follow-on funding from the AHRC, and in 2018 and 2020, it won two large grants as part of the AHRC Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) and the H2020 project "reCreating Europe: Rethinking digital copyright law for a culturally diverse, accessible, creative Europe". CREATe is now a research center hosted by the School of Law at the University of Glasgow, a globally top-ranked law school. It provides resources and conducts new research of national and international significance as part of the University's Advanced Research Centre (ARC). Projects at CREATe are currently organized under the themes of Creative Industries, Public Domain, and Competition and Markets. Problem-focused research is supported by resource pages and tagged with disciplinary icons, allowing new priorities to emerge organically.

The work at CREATe is guided by three key principles:

1. Openness In a contested policy environment with limited evidence, CREATe adopts an open approach to synthesizing knowledge from different fields. It actively involves users in research design at all stages and develops dynamic, open access resources. CREATe's resources receive hundreds of thousands of visitors per year from over 160 countries.

2. Interdisciplinarity CREATe recognizes that the norms governing the information space are not just a legal problem. Research questions and policy issues require perspectives from multiple disciplines. CREATe projects typically involve collaboration and take into account empirical, historical, computational, cultural, sociological, or economic approaches. Within law, CREATe is anchored in the subject areas of intellectual property, information, and competition law.

3. Agility with a long view CREATe has the ambition to contribute to the big questions of today. In a fast-moving technological environment, sustained intervention requires taking a long view. CREATe aims to be responsive but not fast, and its policy contributions include EU and UK copyright policy, platform regulation, and broader questions of innovation, the creative economy, and the digital public sphere.

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