The newly published report from the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee’s on AI, copyright and the creative industries, cites DECaDE’s multi-year work on provenance infrastructure and research on the use of open standards as the technical foundations needed to support creator rights in the age of generative AI.
DECaDE – The Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy – welcomed the focus on transparency, provenance, and creator agency during the House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee’s latest inquiry on AI and copyright.
Researchers from the Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy at the University of Surrey, have released a white paper proposing a collaborative governance framework to help government and industry work together in shaping the evolution of the UK’s digital border.
DECaDE will unveil the first public demonstration of its Creative Content Exchange platform at the Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP) 2025, taking place at the British Film Institute (BFI) on 3–4 December.
Professor Burkhard Schafer, from the University of Edinburgh’s SCRIPT Centre for IT and IP Law, represented DECaDE as both speaker and co-organiser at the ReMeP Annual Conference 2025, held in Vienna on 2 October 2025.
In a remarkable achievement for a newly graduated scientist, DECaDE’s Dr Gemma Canet Tarrés’s research on image generation has been honoured at CVPR 2025, the premier Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference.
Professor Glenn Parry and Mike Brookbanks from the DECADE project contributed to the Tony Blair Institute report, as well as the International Chamber of Commerce and International Centre for Digital Trade and Innovation (ICC/IC4DTI) response.
The Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy with partners Digital Catapult hosted a webinar on 2nd April 2025 which explored tokenised licensing within the creative industries.
A ground-breaking report released today by CoSTAR National R&D Lab – of which DECaDE is a partner – aims to provide creative industries and AI developers with a framework to guide them through challenges around content usage, rights and remuneration in the age of generative AI.
Team members from the Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE) presented their cutting edge research on media provenance and watermarking at ICLR 2025, the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations held on 24 – 28th April in Singapore.
ORAgen Fables, a storytelling interactive developed by DECaDE researchers, was showcased in a week long exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland as part of the Edinburgh Science Festival.
Professor John Collomosse has been paired with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) as part of the Royal Society Pairing Scheme.
Researchers from DECaDE at University of Edinburgh, along with storyteller Gerry Durkin presented ORAgen Fables at Leith Police Box on Thursday 13th March.
Researchers at The Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE) have submitted a formal response to the UK Government’s Open Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence.
DECaDE presented ORAgen Fables, a collective story writing interactive at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh on 7th February, as part of National Storytelling Week.
DECaDE researcher Prof. Burkhard Schafer attended the UK House of Lords Property (Digital Assets) Special Public Bill Committee on 5th December.
On 29th September, researchers from The Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE) presented ‘ORAgen Fables’, a pilot of their latest ‘ORAgen’ research project.
Professor John Collomosse from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering has been elected as a Fellow to the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
The Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE) presented their cutting edge research on the Digital Economy Theme at DE-Nexus, the Digital Next Stage Symposium, held on 10-11th June, during London Tech Week.
DECaDE researchers presented and joined discussions on 7th March, at the House of Lords roundtable discussion on Distributed Ledger Technology for Public Good
To explore the application of advanced digital licensing technologies in the future creative sector, DECaDE held a workshop on 22nd January, together with Digital Catapult and the University of Edinburgh.
DECaDE researchers Dr Birgit Altricher and Dr Ashley Fraser presented their research at the International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy 2022 held in Venice.
DECaDE Professor Glenn Parry offers a historical overview of the impact of technologies on work and employment following the launch of Surrey’s new Future of Work Research Centre on 26th May 2022.
A new paper by DECADE researchers draws on the Reducing Friction in International Trade (RFIT) project. RFIT developed a supply chain platform that integrates with UK Border agencies and uses blockchain to secure a common data set, reducing errors, improving data visibility and helping build trust.
This project describes how we are using self-sovereign identity technologies to allow photojournalists to distribute and assert ownership of images
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