Huge congratulations from the Naomi Korn Associates Team to Blackpool’s Showtown Museum, who has won Permanent Exhibition of the Year at the 2025 Museums + Heritage Awards! The winners were announced at the awards ceremony on Thursday 15th May at the London Hilton Park Lane. Everyone at Naomi Korn Associates is thrilled for the team […]
Showtown is Blackpool’s Museum of fun and entertainment, celebrating the town’s rich history as the UK’s premier seaside resort. Located near the famous Blackpool Tower, it showcases the vibrant stories of performers, comedians, dancers, and showbiz legends who helped shape Blackpool’s unique cultural identity. With interactive exhibits and immersive displays, Showtown invites visitors of all ages to explore […]
By Sean Waterman, Head of Intellectual Property On May 9th, 1945, the day after V.E. Day, the island of Guernsey was liberated after enduring 5 years of occupation by German forces. To mark the 80th anniversary of Liberation Day Guernsey Museums and Galleries partnered with BBC Guernsey to collect islanders’ memories through oral history recordings of their […]
Copyright in the gaming world extends far beyond books and films. Game developers, designers, artists, writers, and composers can use their copyright to control how their original content, whether code, characters, music, storylines, or artwork, is used, copied, or shared. Whilst copyright empowers creators to decide who can reproduce, modify, or distribute their work, and […]
By Sean Waterman, Head of Intellectual Property Volunteers play a crucial role in the UK cultural heritage sector. Their contributions span a wide range of activities and are essential for the operation, preservation, and accessibility of heritage sites and collections. This can include creating content that will be subject to copyright. Volunteers may be writing blogs, […]
By Naomi Korn, CEO The CILIP Copyright Conference, run in association with Naomi Korn Associates, and is always a highlight of the year for me. Tailored for information professionals, librarians, copyright leads, educators, and anyone managing the use of copyrighted materials, it offers an ideal annual pit-stop to explore the critical copyright and licensing issues affecting […]
By Sean Waterman, Head of Intellectual Property The UK Parliament’s Culture Media and Sport committee, the Commons select committee responsible for scrutinising the work of the Department for Media Culture and Sport has published a report on part two of its inquiry into the challenges faced by the British film and the high end television (HETV) […]
By Sean Waterman, Head of Intellectual Property Quarterly statistics released by the Department for Culture Media and Sport show that UK museums and galleries have struggled to reach pre-pandemic visitor levels, overall visits in October-December 2024 were 15% down on the equivalent time period in 2019. Combined with the cumulative effect of funding cuts, fiscal pressure […]
By Sean Waterman, Head of Intellectual Property The default position for many organisations when commissioning work is to ensure that the copyright ownership is always assigned to them. This may be appropriate in many situations, securing the copyright ownership ensures control over how the work can be exploited, but for cultural institutions commissioning creators, a […]
As a game developer, protecting your creative vision starts with getting intellectual property (IP) rights right. In the UK, commissioning content means securing clear ownership, legal protection, and future use rights from the start. Whether it’s voice acting, motion capture, or character likenesses, managing rights like copyright and performers’ rights is key to staying legally […]
Naomi Korn, CEO, Jess Pembroke, Director of Information Law Services and Emma Hart, Training Manager, were thrilled to attend the Association For Cultural Enterprises (ACE) Conference on 12 March 2025 in Liverpool. Naomi said “This was one of the best Association for Cultural Enterprises Annual Conferences that I have attended, filled with wonderful talks and […]
Naomi Korn, CEO, Jess Pembroke, Director of Information Law Services and Emma Hart, Training Manager, are looking forward to attending the Trade Show of the Association For Cultural Enterprises (ACE) Conference on 12 March 2025 in Liverpool. Naomi will be presenting with Julie Molloy, Senior Consultant at Naomi Korn Associates, on the 12th March on […]
