The Humanities in the European Research Area has awarded a grant of just under 1 million Euros to a collaborative research project between Cambridge, Amsterdam and Bergen on Authorship and Originality: Reclaiming Copyright in Support of Creative Collaboration in the Digital Environment.
The project, which will begin in 2010 and last for 3 years, will deploy humanities scholarship on ‘authorship’ to explore and develop alternative conceptions of the work of authorship better attuned to the digital age. Dr Mireille van Eechoud, of IViR in the University of Amsterdam, who is currently visiting the Cambridge Law Faculty, is the overall project leader, and will be particularly involved in the project stream relating to the concept of the “work”. Professor Jostein Gripsrud, of the Department of Information Sciences and Media Studies in Bergen, will explore both theoretical dimensions of authorship and investigate empirically the changing nature of creativity in music and television. Professor Lionel Bently, of CIPIL in Cambridge, will manage a third stream exploring legal conceptions of “joint authorship.”
Twitter
Email