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Regulating the Creative Economy

Overview

Module description

This module will enable you to understand, analyse and critique the way in which legal regulation in general and copyright law in particular have intervened in processes of cultural production. The module will provide you with theoretical perspectives that enable critical reflection on the copyright system and its relationship with other legal devices and regimes for regulating cultural production. These perspectives will be located within a series of case studies that examine the role, operation and impact of legal regulation in specific sectors of the creative economy such as film, music, fine arts, fashion and publishing.

Indicative module syllabus

  • Theoretical analysis of the possible relationships between law and creativity
  • Copyright and cultural production
  • The political economy of copyright law
  • Copyright and cultural property regimes
  • Between copyright and contract
  • Case study on the film industry
  • Case study on the music industry
  • Case study on the international art market
  • Case study on the fashion industry
  • Case study on the publishing industry

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

  • understand the relationship between copyright law and cultural production in theoretical perspective
  • analyse a range of theoretical and political perspectives that address the political economy of the international copyright system
  • locate significant points of intersection between copyright law and other areas of law concerned with the regulation of creativity and cultural production
  • critique the role of copyright law in specific sectors of the creative economy.