CREATe Public Lecture – An Empirical Perspective on Drafting Copyright Exceptions, Dr Emily Hudson
Channel: CREATe Media
Date: 2021-04-12

CREATe Public Lecture - An Empirical Perspective on Drafting Copyright Exceptions

Speaker: Emily Hudson
Discussant: Bartolomeo Meletti
Chair: Marta Iljadica

Date: Wednesday 24 March 17:30-19:00 GMT

Abstract: This talk brings together many of the key insights in Emily’s recent monograph, Drafting Copyright Exceptions: From the Law in Books to the Law in Action, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. At the core of this book is an empirical case study in relation to the copyright management practices of leading cultural institutions in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. This fieldwork involved interviews with hundreds of people, and took place over a fourteen year period. However, the book is far more than a qualitative description of practices. Instead, it uses the case study as it engages with many foundational questions about how copyright stakeholders engage with the law, the factors relevant to their copyright decision-making, how norms – even sticky ones – can change over time, and what we can learn from all this for the drafting of copyright exceptions. This talk will be of interest not only to those involved in intellectual property law and the cultural institution sector, but those with an interest in empirical legal techniques, social norms and the literature on legal rulemaking.