Do not restrict our creative industries WAS Re: [Upd-discuss] New Labour and Trysts: Creative Industries Forum

[Adam Moran]

Hi,

> Forwarded message:
> From: "Michelle Childs" 
> Date: October 10, 2005 8:47:43 AM  EDT
> To: a2k@lists.essential.org 

> I attended the Creative economy conference last week in London ...

> As we had feared there was no creativity and no economic analysis of the
> role of copyright and  the pros and cons of its use in the digital age. [1]

Will Davies [2] wrote an article dated 05/10/05 arguing for such a debate:

*Do not restrict our creative industries* [3]

<snip>

   "The challenge is to focus on practical, productive activities first
    and foremost, while keeping alive the importance of policing existing
    IP rights. For instance, a host of new and more efficient publishing
    models are emerging that exploit the internet without imperilling the
    moral and financial rights of creators. Governments should recognise
    that these are precisely what the knowledge economy is all about, and
    nurture them."

</snip>

He has also written a report called *Modernising with Purpose: a 
manifesto for a Digital Britain * [4] which may be of interest to some 
readers.

--
Adam

[1] Full post : 
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/a2k/2005-October/000657.html

[2] William Davies is a senior research fellow at the Institute for 
Public Policy Research

[3] 
http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/comment/2143244/restrict-creative-industries

[4] http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=297