By Sean Waterman, Head of Intellectual Property Copyright can be a challenging and sometime daunting subject but understanding its basic principles will go a long way to help you avoid copyright infringements and ensure you are in control over how your copyright protected assets are used. Our CPD UK accredited half day Copyright Basics course […]
By Naomi Korn, CEO 2026 marks a quarter century of Creative Commons (CC) Licences empowering creators, educators, and organisations to share content openly. There’s no better moment to deepen your understanding of CC licensing and learn how to use it confidently and strategically. Our Creative Commons Licensing Course provides you with the knowledge to understand CC licensing and […]
Naomi Korn was delighted to deliver a specialist webinar titled AI and Copyright: Navigating Risks and Opportunities for Museums in Ireland and Northern Ireland in partnership with The Irish Museums Association (IMA) on 4 November. The webinar provided the audience of museum professionals with practical insights into how AI technologies intersect with copyright law, ethical considerations, […]
By Jess Pembroke, Director of Information Law Services I saw the College of Policing’s project, “Dementia safeguarding scheme to reduce missing person cases”, and it struck me on a deeply personal level. I’ve seen first-hand the distress caused when a loved one with dementia wanders off, the fear that they might walk into traffic or become […]
CILIP has launched its first podcast series, co-hosted with Jess Pembroke from Naomi Korn Associates. The series is titled The Info Pro Podcast. Episode 1, Not Convinced Yet: AI in UK Libraries – Policy, Ethics and Privacy, is available to listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4i7gtTEytOGZ99RvCnHhOM What’s Inside Episode 1? In this debut episode, Rob and Jess […]
Sean Waterman, Head of Intellectual Property, was delighted to join the Association for Cultural Enterprises’ Arts & Culture podcast for an episode on AI in Culture. Sean said, “I really enjoyed speaking with Tom Dawson (Association for Cultural Enterprises) last week on the legal and ethical issues associated with the cultural sector’s use of AI. The […]
By Naomi Korn, CEO Volunteers are vital to charities and cultural heritage organisations. They write blog posts, take photos, record interviews, run social media, and digitise archives. But alongside the goodwill comes a challenge that’s often overlooked: who owns the work produced, and what permissions are needed? Why copyright matters Whenever a volunteer creates an original […]
By Jess Pembroke, Director of Information Law Services The recent BBC report on Weleda’s investigation into its alleged links to Nazi-era human experimentation reminded me of the vital role archives play in confronting uncomfortable truths. A key area archives ask for our support on is how to balance the need to preserve historical records with modern […]
By Naomi Korn, CEO This Autumn, I had the privilege of presenting my PhD research at two leading international intellectual property conferences: – ATRIP 2025 (Association for Teaching and Research In Intellectual Property), a global network of scholars exploring international copyright and IP law which was hosted at the University of Copenhagen https://atrip.org – EPIP 2025 (European […]
By Naomi Korn, CEO In September 2025, the AI company Anthropic, who provide several AI and Gen.AI platforms such as “Claude”, announced a proposed settlement worth at least $1.5 billion with specific authors. These authors had alleged that the company used pirated digital copies of books to train its models. According to the Associated Press and […]
By Jess Pembroke, Director of Information Law Services In June 2021, Sony Music Entertainment uncovered a breach in a cloud account. The account had been compromised by Adrian Kwiatkowski (aka Dalziel), who illegally accessed multiple artists’ cloud storage to steal and sell unreleased music.[1] Kwiatkowski has been prosecuted under copyright law because he distributed copyrighted material […]
By Naomi Korn, CEO I was honoured to be chairing the CILIP Copyright Conference for another year. Joined by over 100 delegates, we had an extremely enjoyable and enriched day of sessions exploring AI and how copyright law deals with these fast paced developments; how library and information professionals navigate an already complex copyright and licensing […]
