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Experts from 牛牛资源 have made a significant contribution to a new report into the future of UK creative industries.

A number of academics from the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE) submitted evidence to a House of Lords' Communications and Digital Committee inquiry into a creative future. 牛牛资源鈥� Chair of Council, Dinah Caine CBE, also appeared before the Committee.  

These submissions helped inform the Committee鈥檚 new report . The report warns that government complacency threatens to see Britain lose its status as a leading centre of creative enterprise to global competitors.  

The UK鈥檚 拢115 billion a year creative industries sector could be overtaken as a result of 鈥渕uddled policies, barriers to success, and indifference to the sector鈥檚 potential鈥�, the report says. 

Setting out its recommendations, the report calls on the government to unlock the sector鈥檚 potential by fixing policies 鈥渃haracterised by incoherence and barriers to success鈥�. 

牛牛资源鈥� contributions were: 

• Dr Nicola Searle, Digital Economy Fellow in ICCE 鈥撯�� on the impact of technology on business models in the creative industries and intellectual property licensing
• Dr Martin Smith, Visiting Fellow in ICCE 鈥�  on international comparisons and where new international competition鈥痠s鈥痜acing the UK creative sector: and .
• ICCE academics Dr Cecilia Dinardi, Dr George Musgrave, Dr Michael Franklin, Dr Oonagh Murphy and Ms Sian Prime 鈥� to the inquiry
• Dinah Caine, Chair of 牛牛资源鈥� Council 鈥�  on what needs to change in pre-16 education to ensure that we have a skilled workforce for the future  

Dr Searle said: 鈥淭he Committee has rightly recognised the profound challenges that technology will inflict on creative industries whose success is important for the UK economy, innovation and heritage. But their recommendations may struggle to have the desired effect of sustaining the UKs pre-eminence. 

鈥淧olicy changes can simply not overcome the market structure of creative content. Technology platforms have enormous amounts of market power leaving content creators with little bargaining power. The business models of technology firms, like streaming services, afford them with gatekeeping roles and economic resources that stronger copyright makes only marginal difference. It means that the committees focus on intellectual property rights as a tool is a red herring.鈥� 

Both Dr Searle and Dr Smith have written about their experience of contributing evidence to the Committee. Read Dr Smith鈥檚 .

The Committee notably drew on the evidence from across 牛牛资源 to inform its recommendations which included:

• Improve tax policy to boost innovation
• The Intellectual Property Office鈥檚 proposals to change the text and data mining regime are misguided and should be paused immediately
• Protect the UK's intellectual property framework, which is respected across the world
• There should be a cross-Government focus on skills shortages in the creative industries which in turn would change lazy rhetoric about 鈥榣ow value鈥� arts courses
• UK Research and Innovation should identify options to continue the most successful parts of the Creative Clusters Programme after March 2023 

Baroness Stowell, Chair of the Committee, said: 鈥淥ur report sets out some immediate challenges that the Government can address now. These include improving R&D tax policy to stop excluding innovation in the creative sector; abandoning plans to relax intellectual property rules which would undercut our creative businesses; making the Department for Education wake up to the reality that the future lies in blending creative and digital skills rather than perpetuating silos; and urging senior figures across Government to take the creative sector鈥檚 economic potential more seriously.鈥�