🎮 Critical Takes | The Xbox "Reset" What can Microsoft's restructuring of Xbox tell us about the future of creative autonomy in the games industry? Edited by Sebastian Martin, this #NowTrending explores what the Xbox reset reveals about consolidation, labour, and game development.

📣 Research in Focus | Digital Regulation at TILTing 2026 Can the Digital Services Act regulate addictive design in live-service games? Weiwei Yi reflects on her doctoral research at TILTing 2026 and discusses monetary dark patterns, consumer protection, competition policy, and internet governance.

📄 The Concept of ‘Lawful Access’: New ECS Opinion It examines the concept of lawful access across the EU copyright acquis and provides guidance on its interpretation in copyright exceptions and limitations, including for text and data mining, machine learning, and AI model training.

💡 #CREATeAI: Trends in Regulating AI in the Creative Economy 📚 We explore innovative policy solutions in the PgCert in AI Law and the Creative Economy, delivered in London and designed to engage directly with these emerging challenges. gla.ac/4dRynoX

📣 Researching Regulatory Innovation: The UK DRCF As digital technologies and AI develop at unnerving speed, can regulation keep pace? A new article by Philip Schlesinger and Martin Kretschmer explores the UK's DRCF as an innovative model of cross-regulatory collaboration.

We remember our colleague and friend, Professor Morten Hviid, whose remarkable contribution to CREATe, to competition policy, and to the wider academic community will continue to inspire. Morten will be remembered as a generous colleague, inspiring mentor, and exceptional scholar.

📣 Upcoming Symposium | Conflict, Coordination, and Legal Responses regarding Competition Policy and Industrial Policy As AI, innovation, and industrial policy reshape markets, our forthcoming symposium explores how competition law can respond through comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives.

💡 #CREATeAI: Trends in Regulating AI in the Creative Economy 📚 We explore innovative policy solutions in the PgCert in AI Law and the Creative Economy, delivered in London and designed to engage directly with these emerging challenges. gla.ac/4dRynoX

📍 CREATe at the 21st ASCOLA Annual Conference Competition law, digital regulation and AI were at the heart of this year's ASCOLA Conference. CREATe's Magali Eben, David Reader and Liana Japaridze contributed to discussions on digital regulation, competition enforcement and competition policy.

🌐 The geopolitics of digital regulation Professor Philip Schlesinger, Professorial Fellow at CREATe, delivered a keynote on The geopolitics of digital regulation at the international colloquium The Theory of Cultural Industries: An International Perspective, held in Paris on 17–18 June.

📣 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 | Can we CREATe a Pro-Consumer AI Regulation? by 𝗗𝗿 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝘂𝘇𝘂𝗸𝗶-𝗞𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗻 (Independent Researcher). 🔗 Read the full blog 👉 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2026/07...

Can we CREATe a Pro-Consumer AI Regulation? - CREATe

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💡 #CREATeAI: Trends in Regulating AI in the Creative Economy 📚 We explore innovative policy solutions in the PgCert in AI Law and the Creative Economy, delivered in London and designed to engage directly with these emerging challenges. gla.ac/4dRynoX

🤖 AI-driven research and data protection: CREATe response to the ICO consultation Based on the UKRI Metascience AI project, led by Dr Zihao Li, the response examines how copyright and data protection law shape AI research — from data acquisition and model training to deployment and reuse.

🌍 Beyond Spectacle: Measuring Real Impact in Immersive Difficult Heritage XR Can immersive experiences deepen understanding? How do we centre community voices? And what does meaningful impact look like? This blog explores ethical XR through trauma-informed design and community voices.

Many thanks Róisín, @irishhumanities.bsky.social and @tcddublin.bsky.social School of Law for convening a terrific event for the Law and Humanities Roundtable 2026 in Dublin!

🎮 The end of physical games? The Fallout 4 meme captures the mood. The law explains why. Sony's move away from game discs isn't just nostalgia —it's about copyright, ownership, consumer rights and game preservation. As gaming goes digital, this debate has implications far beyond the games industry.

📅 Upcoming online talk | 30 September 2026 How can the history of a painting change the way we see it today? Join CREATe’s Dr Elena Cooper for a free online talk exploring Abraham Solomon’s First Class and Second Class — two pioneering Victorian paintings. 🕐 7.30pm #ArtHistory #Copyright

📅 Upcoming online talk | 30 September 2026 How can the history of a painting change the way we see it today? Join CREATe’s Dr Elena Cooper for a free online talk exploring Abraham Solomon’s First Class and Second Class — two pioneering Victorian paintings. 🕐 7.30pm #ArtHistory #Copyright

Forthcoming Online Talk: ‘Rediscovering the paintings First Class and Second Class by Abraham Solomon’ by Dr Elena Cooper - CREATe

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💡 #CREATeAI: Trends in Regulating AI in the Creative Economy 📚 We explore innovative policy solutions in the PgCert in AI Law and the Creative Economy, delivered in London and designed to engage directly with these emerging challenges. gla.ac/4dRynoX

Save the Date! 4th ECR Conference ‘Competition Law as a Guiding Discipline for Digital Economy’ (12 and 13 November 2026 at the Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow) Details here: www.create.ac.uk/blog/2026/07...

4th Early Career Scholars Conference - “Competition Law as a Guiding Discipline for Digital Economy” - CREATe

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🎥 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹? Hear it from our participants. Watch the highlights and hear what participants had to say about their experience 📽️ #CREATe #SpringSchool #LawAndTechnology #CreativeIndustries #AI #Copyright #CompetitionLaw #UniversityOfGlasgow youtu.be/A1hKTeR5uVc?...

CREATe Spring School 2026 - Remaking Creativity

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🎭 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 | Law, the Arts, and the Digital World by 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿. This blog reflects on two recent arts productions relevant to CREATe’s research themes. 🔶 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴? by Georgie Dettmer 🔷 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝘆 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀, an exhibition curated by Dr Marie Hadley and Dr Adam McDade. 📖 Read the full blog 👇

Law and the Arts: Reflections on the play ‘Are you Watching?’ by Dettmer and the exhibition ‘Grey Lines’ by Hadley and McDade - CREATe

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📣 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 | Can we have a platform regulation without AI regulation? by 𝗦𝗲𝗷𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗸 (University of the West of England). 🔗 Read the full blog 👉 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2026/06...

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💡 #CREATeAI: Trends in Regulating AI in the Creative Economy Reflecting on competition authorities’ attempts to address the use of publishers’ content in AI, Magali Eben reflected 👇 🗣️ What do you think? 𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘄 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆?

📣 New blog | CREATe academic contributes to the conference Whistler in Action, Tate Britain (June 2026) by @drelenacooper.bsky.social In this blog, Dr 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 reflects on her contribution to Whistler in Action. Full blog 👇 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2026/06...

📣 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 | Bargaining through competition law? The publishers saga continues in the UK with CMA conduct requirements imposed on Google by Magali Eben 🔗 Download the working paper directly👉 zenodo.org/records/2071... Or check our blog👉 www.create.ac.uk/working-pape...

💡 #CREATeAI: Trends in Regulating AI in the Creative Economy At our recent London launch event, Lilian Edwards (Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow) shared this reflection on the future of platform regulation:

📣New blog | Time to dress the emperor? #CJEU judgement in #Meta (𝗖-𝟳𝟵𝟳/𝟮𝟯) by Ula Furgal In this blog, she explores these wider implications of the CJEU's ruling and asks whether bargaining frameworks can really address the structural limitations of the press publishers’ right. Full blog below 👇

Time to dress the emperor? CJEU judgement in Meta (C-797/23) - CREATe

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📣New blog | Copyright protection of prompted generative AI outputs in the United Kingdom (𝗔𝗜 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗘𝗖𝗥𝘀’ 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀) In this blog, Cody Rei-Anderson (Edinburgh Napier University) explores: How will copyright law treat works produced by or with the assistance of generative AI?? 🤖⚖️🎨

Copyright protection of prompted generative AI outputs in the United Kingdom: A preliminary taxonomy - CREATe

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💡#CREATeAI: Trends in Regulating AI in the Creative Economy Following his presentation on “Empirical effects of opting-out: new data from DeviantArt”, Kristofer Erickson reflected 👇 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 #“𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁” 𝗮𝗻𝗱 #“𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮” 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜?