ISHTIP goes to Sao Paulo! Registration for the 17th Annual Workshop is open, and everyone who is interested in history and theory of intellectual property is very welcome to join. Please find more details in the page below.

PhD scholarship on copyright and private regulation supervised by @kathybowrey.bsky.social, UNSW and L. Buckingham, Arts Law Centre of Australia www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/... Deadline: 13 April 2026

Two social sciences PhD studentships @create-glasgow.bsky.social www.create.ac.uk/blog/2026/03... Deadline: 15 April 2026

📣 Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual ISHTIP Workshop is out now 📣 Theme: Intellectual Property and Democracy When: 25-26 June 2026 Where: Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil Abstract & CV deadline: 22 December 2025 More details: ishtip.org/forthcoming-...

CREATe, University of Glasgow (www.create.ac.uk) is looking for a Research Associate:

Isambard Kingdom Brunel to select committee on patents (1851, HL 486): "[W]hat is the result of your experience? I believe them to be productive of almost unmixed evil with respect to every party connected with them, whether those for the benefit of whom they are apparently made, or the public."

A reminder that @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Arts reviews editor @drelenacooper.bsky.social will consider reviews of architecture relating to legal themes.

This was a brilliant talk by @drmarieip.bsky.social

The "Planning Applications Scotland" dashboard covers specific types of development which can, helpfully, also be broken down by local authority.

Last week at Aberdeen I spoke about a favourite topic from my @leverhulme.bsky.social research fellowship project: architects' insistence that they - not their clients - own architectural plans and drawings.

I was recently introduced to the catchy slogan "What’s it called? Cumbernauld!" when trying to get the pronunciation right and now I'm going to read about Cumbernauld and other Scottish new towns: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/building-...

Open Up Museums! Prospects and Challenges of Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion Collection edited by G. Dore and M. Arisi based on the workshop collaboration between MUSE (Trento), Mart (Rovereto) and the EU-funded projects reCreating Europe, DANCING, and inDICEs. zenodo.org/records/1428...

Do you have views about a building relating to law or legal themes? The Law and Humanities journal (@law-and-humanities.bsky.social) publishes arts as well as book reviews: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rla...

Kris Erickson published a new article which explores the intersection of AI and creativity 🤖 Through case studies across industries like music or architecture, the study reveals diverse experiences among creative firms that have commercialised AI-enhanced products 👩‍🎨 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2024/10...

An architectural copyright case: the IPKat reports on a judgment from the Paris Court of Appeal highlighting the importance of making creative choices. "Combination of common architectural elements does not make orangery original" ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/10/comb...

SAVE THE DATE We are excited to announce the dates for the next ISHTIP - International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property - Annual Workshop, which will take place in Madrid on 25 - 26 June 2025. More details and CfP will follow next month.

I'd be more productive today if I wasn't looking out of my office window every few minutes trying to spot the peregrine fledglings flying from the Gilbert Scott tower.

This article plots the unrelenting opposition to Lawson’s entrepreneurship and explains why her successful litigation to enforce her legal rights was a hollow victory. It raises significant questions of contemporary relevance about law, culture, power and political strategy.

It used to be the best thing about my employer was the monkey puzzle tree but now it's the peregrine falcons in the tower.

"Donor restrictions on galleries and museums" special issue of Art Antiquity and Law co-edited by Elena Cooper and Steph Scholten: www.create.ac.uk/blog/2024/04... It includes fascinating archival work on Whistler's 'Portrait of Lady Eden' which is not allowed to be exhibited... or is it?

It's an exciting time for CREATe @create-glasgow.bsky.social : not only did we join Bluesky (hooray!), but the centre is being relaunched as the centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy, having secured AHRC infrastructure funding. Want to celebrate with us? Join us in March!

There is still time to submit an ISHTIP workshop abstract... the deadline has been extended to Monday 22 January 2024.

Wonderful to see this published in the Illinois JLTP: "Surrogate IP Rights in the Cultural Sector" by CREATe alumna @andeewallace.bsky.social ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/h...

Happy New Year! Please do not forget to send in an abstract for our meeting in June in Boston.

Call for Papers: 2024 Int. Society for the History and Theory of IP Annual Workshop | 26-27 June 2024 | Boston University hosted by Jessica Silbey Abstract deadline: 8 Jan 2024 Theme: Intellectual Property and the Anthropocene Other papers within ISHTIP interests also welcome. More details:

The International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property is here! @ishtip.bsky.social

One of the best parts of archival research is viewing so many different examples of beautiful handwriting. Memos and meeting minutes are suddenly works of art.

ISHTIP Book Discussion: Myra Tawfik’s “For the Encouragement of Learning. The origins of Canadian Copyright Law” 23 November online. See details in the CORRECTED flyer or go to www.ishtip.org

Isabella Alexander will be in Glasgow today to give a CREATe Public Lecture on copyright history and cartography based on her fantastic book, read it here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/copyright...

I've enjoyed reading the chapter by Cristina S. Martinez, 'Blackstone as Draughtsman' (2014). Blackstone wrote two treatises on architecture before writing the commentaries. Writing about an amateur interest "at leisure Hours" sounds fun.

CfP for the first Critical Legal Geography conference which will take place in February 2024 in Torino: www.dist.polito.it/it/news/(idn... Abstract deadline: 15 October 2023.