Dr Elena Cooper
banner
drelenacooper.bsky.social
Dr Elena Cooper
@drelenacooper.bsky.social
Arts Editor, Law & Humanities (UK academic journal published by Taylor & Francis). Senior Lecturer, CREATe, University of Glasgow, UK. Author of 'Art and Modern Copyright: The Contested Image' (CUP, 2018).
Pinned
'Something hit him in the eyeballs: the reflective light that comes from the sea'; it was 'like being woken up; shook by nature'; in his sketches he was trying to discover 'how little you need to represent something': from "Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks" now on BBCiplayer👇 tinyurl.com/3kyermy3
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
Turner painted the world like no-one else, yet his life remains a mystery. Tracey Emin, Timothy Spall and Ronnie Wood explore his personal sketches to reveal the man behind the art.
tinyurl.com
Really looking forward to reading this new monograph by CREATe's friends who headed by the (then radical) 'Author's Interest' project. Looks great 👏 Well done Josh and Rebecca.
📘 New Book📘 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝘆𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝗶𝗱.
CREATe is delighted to share the publication of a new monograph by long-time collaborators 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗵𝘂𝗮 𝗬𝘂𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗷 (University of Auckland) and Professor 𝗥𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗰𝗮 𝗚𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻 (University of Melbourne)
Copyright Reversion: Reclaiming Lost Culture and Getting Creators Paid, a new book by Joshua Yuvaraj and Rebecca Giblin - CREATe
www.create.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The brilliant photo-historian Dr Michael Pritchard will be speaking at Liszt Institute London on 2nd Dec👇Great abstract: where there's a good archive, there's a story, & it will always be original, always authentic. Great speaker too ⭐ @phrc-dmu.bsky.social @the-rps.bsky.social tinyurl.com/47uywea4
Teaching the World Photography: Andor Kraszna-Krausz (1904-1989)
Lecture by Dr Michael Pritchard.
tinyurl.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Reposted by Dr Elena Cooper
'Art Law in Fiction and Film': event at National Gallery, London, 11am-12pm, Tues 9th Dec, organised by the Art Lawyers' Association. And to our L&H community: if you go, please say 👋 to our Arts Editor @drelenacooper.bsky.social who will be attending! tinyurl.com/2w7fcmue
The 12th ALA Roundtable Discussion - Art law in fiction and film | Art Lawyers Assoc
We are pleased to announce the 12th session of the Art Lawyers Association's Roundtable Discussions. This discussion will be hosted by Richard Barnet and Charlotte Eaton from the National Gallery lega...
tinyurl.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Love this arts essay, not just re enduring power of Kafka's writing, but also for what an astute English scholar says re creativity in adaptation: in changing media "distinctive... grammars... transpose Kafka’s textual strategies" e.g. "aural dissonance, scenic abstraction or visual distortion" ⭐
OUT NOW 👇 Essay by @josephowen.bsky.social on adaptations of Kafka's 'The Trial' by Anmol Vellani (the play "Innocence") & Ed Harris (BBC radio drama): "Taken together, these recent adaptations reveal why The Trial endures as a critical touchpoint in the twenty-first century." tinyurl.com/3jxvpemx
tinyurl.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Really looking forward to reading this one👇 by my favourite (living) sociologist: "In this interview, 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗽 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 elaborates on his use of the concept of a 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 to theorise the structural rupture of rational-critical discourse in the digital age..."
🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 🚨
CREATe is happy to present our 9th working papers in 2025 – ‘𝘙𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘯: 𝘈𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘱 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳’ by @𝗪𝗲𝗶 𝗭𝗵𝗮𝗼 (Beijing City University) and @𝗙𝗲𝗶 𝗛𝘂𝗮𝗻𝗴 (Jiangxi Normal University) 📄
New Working Paper: Rethinking the Public Sphere and the Regulatory Turn - CREATe
www.create.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
'Something hit him in the eyeballs: the reflective light that comes from the sea'; it was 'like being woken up; shook by nature'; in his sketches he was trying to discover 'how little you need to represent something': from "Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks" now on BBCiplayer👇 tinyurl.com/3kyermy3
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
Turner painted the world like no-one else, yet his life remains a mystery. Tracey Emin, Timothy Spall and Ronnie Wood explore his personal sketches to reveal the man behind the art.
tinyurl.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Thank you @rhul-cvs.bsky.social for a warm welcome this evening; loved every minute of presenting to you & unraveling interdisciplinary perspectives on your stunning art collection 🌟 my third talk in the gallery and I sense not my last! And I got lost in all architectural details on my way in 👇
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"This conference starts from the premise that to ensure the preservation of contemporary art in all its diversity we first need to understand who cares: who owns, controls and manages contemporary artists’ estates & what legacies are being cared for, how & why?"👇Love this CFP: implicit law/art nexus
November 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Well done to my CREATe colleague Kris Erickson 👏 Looking forward to reflecting on this paper from a legal historian angle: the status of directions, why they are not authorial (in Victorian carte de visit context), is discussed in Nottage v Jackson (1883)
🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 🚨
Can generative AI truly replicate iconic photographs? 📸
In our latest working paper, @Dr 𝗝𝗶𝗺 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗱𝗲𝗻 (University of Leeds) and @Prof 𝗞𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗼𝗻 (CREATe) experiment with rephotography by using #Midjourney to recreate four historic images, including 𝙈𝙞𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧.
New Working Paper: Can Generative AI Reproduce Iconic Photographs? - CREATe
www.create.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Thinking about my talk ( tinyurl.com/4rekdmnc) this wk, while on Richmond Hill (known as Turner’s view & short walk from👇) My talk reflects on being present with art in the Gallery, but I will start with what is absent (Turner’s painting sold in 1993) which takes us to a different intellectual place
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Thank you to fab audience today at The CREATe TM Seminar - particularly wonderful connecting with our regular attendees from overseas: I'm forever impressed by encyclopaedic TM law knowledge of @zvirosen.bsky.social & loved the genius patent qu from @birnhack.bsky.social; and 👋 to @jocelynbos.se
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It's a grey day but I've got a spring in my step as I'm presenting with D Higgins & J Davis 🕰️👇 tinyurl.com/mrzv9bfs Do you own a 19th cent watchcase with a UK 'FOREIGN' hallmark? if so you own a piece of TM history (& a rare collector's item). Learn more at 2pm today online! Drop me an email to join
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Love this new design by Kéré 👇based on the Baobab tree for UNESCO’s new virtual museum for stolen cultural artefacts sourced from Interpol database, “to raise awareness of the illicit trafficking of cultural property worldwide” & impact of such trafficking on communities. shorturl.at/Qx5V1
Diébédo Francis Kéré designs UNESCO virtual museum of stolen artefacts
Burkinabè architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has designed a spiralling web-based gallery for the UNESCO Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects.
shorturl.at
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Paul Weller's lyrics capture my intellectual mood right now: 'Hidden in the backseat of my head; that place I can't remember where; I found it just by coincidence'... well, reading @dkennytcd.bsky.social👇 &, last year Watt & Raffield's 2007 L&H editorial, I realised I am a closet law & lit scholar 🤔
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Art history conference👇 I spied quote from a legal theorist: "as Hans Kelsen wrote as early as 1926, political representation in parliament is a 'fiction' whose credibility must be permanently confirmed through communication"; that includes art. Legal theoretical underpinning to art historical qu ⭐
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Delighted to be invited to blog about the fab JMW Turner exhibition that has just opened at National Museums Liverpool, as part of Turner 250 👇
'Turner: Always Contemporary', 25 Oct to 22 Feb, Walker Art Gallery.

www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/walk...
Turner: Always Contemporary
This exhibition will mark 250 years since the birth of JMW Turner, exploring both the artist’s own work and his enduring impact on later generations of artists. Turner: Always Contemporary will includ...
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposted by Dr Elena Cooper
Don’t miss the PHRC’s @phrc-dmu.bsky.social next online research seminar in photographic cultures & heritage, 27 Nov '25, 5.30pm. This time, we host Pippa Oldfield and Tom Allbeson for an inspiring discussion on Peace Photographies. All welcome free but registration required - tinyurl.com/he77wnsp.
Autumn 2025 #2
Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage Pippa Oldfield Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK Tom Allbeson Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Peace Photographies: Rethinking Photo…
tinyurl.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Reposted by Dr Elena Cooper
CfP: announcing the 8th L&H Roundtable workshop 'Visions of Democracy in Art and Literature' @tcddublin.bsky.social on 19 Jun 2026. Submit abstracts to [email protected] by Fri 6 Feb @legalhumanities.bsky.social @sophiedoherty.bsky.social @dkennytcd.bsky.social @drelenacooper.bsky.social 👇
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reposted by Dr Elena Cooper
🎓 The CREATe Trade Mark Seminar Series — Autumn 2025

We are delighted to announce two online seminars this November exploring 👌 🧵

🔗 To register, please contact Elena Cooper: [email protected]

🖥️ Events are free and open to all

Read more 👉 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/10...
The CREATe Trade Mark Seminar Series: Autumn 2025 – Talks by Prof. Sonia K. Katyal on Empirical Methods and Dr Elena Cooper and Prof. David Higgins with Dr. Jennifer Davis as commentator on Trade Mark...
www.create.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
‘Things do not have to be this way’ says Sir David Attenborough in ‘Our Story’ now on at @nhm.org. I needed to hear that from Sir D on a planetary level to find that hopeful space again re smaller things too; my list of topics is pretty long, but: let’s do it! Or do some of it! 🤔 shorturl.at/mm2WD
Our Story with David Attenborough | Natural History Museum
A spectacular new 360° cinematic experience.
shorturl.at
November 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Exhibition "Information Noise Saturation", opening soon re work of artist J Nechtaval. I interviewed Nechvatal in 2013 re his creative use of tech; now as @law-and-humanities.bsky.social arts editor, I see that interview through new frame: new media art as "political praxis beyond aesthetic concern"
October 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Warmest wishes to all friends of @create-glasgow.bsky.social and @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social in Jamaica, at UWI Museum and National History Museum of Jamaica & beyond. Thinking of you all.. 🇯🇲.
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Well done @rosetheatre2008.bsky.social for a fab live production of Horrible Histories today; I'm a legal historian of this period & I don't think I could have explained the 'bloody code' any better! However, as a member of @create-glasgow.bsky.social, where was actor attribution? shorturl.at/ve2zg
Horrible Histories - Gorgeous Georgians & Vile Victorians
We all want to meet people from history! The trouble is everyone is dead! So it’s time to prepare for Horrible Histories live on stage with the acclaimed production of Gorgeous Georgians and Vile Vict...
shorturl.at
October 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Reposted by Dr Elena Cooper
This Thursday, 30 Oct 2025, 5:30pm, marks the launch of our new Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage @phrc-dmu.bsky.social | Delighted to begin with a talk by the wonderful Martha Langford. Attendance free, but registration required - tiny.cc/49au001 We look forward to seeing you!
Autumn 2025 #1
Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage Martha Langford Concordia University, Montreal Through Line 1: The Ebb and Flow of Illustration in A History of Photography in Canada, 1839-2…
tiny.cc
October 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Exhibition Launch: "Painting and Copyright in the Nineteenth Century" Thurs 20 Nov, 6–8pm
Picture Gallery, Royal Holloway, Egham. Time travel with me back to 19th cent, the time of emergence of modern copyright, in presence of one of the best collections of Victorian modern art. shorturl.at/sYnp8
Painting and Copyright in the Nineteenth Century
How does closely engaging with painting help us better to understand copyright history? A talk by Dr Elena Cooper
shorturl.at
October 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM