Tuesday 30th September 2025

IP- Intellectual Property

IP rights are a set of international legislation regarding intellectual property, copyright, trademarks etc. It protects the expression of your ideas, but it doesn’t last forever.

Before this workshop, I knew a fair bit about IP rights, mostly through seeing people talk about terms such as ‘fair use’. In my own work I have had to consider copyright on projects, especially when it came to aspects like sound design which I often cannot make on my own. I have found places like BBC sound archive really useful as a student.

Previously I attended a masterclass on how to utilise IP on a trans-media project or franchise from Joshua Ngiam co-founder of IP and branding specialist company Animagine. This was an interesting look at the business side of IP and what companies are looking for.

It was very interesting hearing about IP from the eyes of someone working within the law side of it. Especially learning about organisations such as Design and Artist Copyright Society (DACS) who are currently speaking on the behalf of artists in political events. As an animator knowing what is and is not my own IP can be murky as often we work in groups or under someone else.

It was clear that most of the people around me (myself included) have quite strong opinions in regard to generative artificial intelligence, doubly when it is trained off of the copyrighted works of artists without any compensation. One of the arguments often given for AI is that humans already create based off of inspiration we take from others. I had to sit with this one for a while to try and articulate the ways in which I felt that human inspiration and feeding a machine is innately different to one another. While I’m still vehemently against AI, it was interesting exercise to try and push what my core beliefs are.

• Game Design
• Music Industry
• Performer’s Rights

Some of the interesting lawsuits and cases that Roxanne showed us were:

• Zarya Kashtanova vs. US Copyright Office
• Getty Images vs. Stability AI
• Arijit Singh vs. Codible Ventures LLP

• What are IP rights
• What did I already know about it
  • Animagine multi-media IP stuff
• My experience using IP and copyright
  • Music
  • Places to get copyright free sound
• Gaming design and performers rights
• Lawsuits regarding generative AI
  • Our class’s general thoughts regarding ai (NEGATIVE)
• Fair dealing/ fair use
• Who owns IP in a studio setting
• Where to post work
• WWYD if you worked in he worst studio in the world?