Protecting Your Creative Assets: IP and Copyright Essentials

Event details

Your creative work is valuable - make sure it’s protected. This session helps creative practitioners understand the fundamentals of intellectual property and how to use it strategically. This event is a business support clinic delivered as part of CreaTech Frontiers. 

Key takeaways

• A clear understanding of what IP you already own (even if you don’t realise it yet)
• Practical steps to protect your ideas, software, designs, artwork and concepts
• How IP impacts collaborations, commissions, freelancing and joint ventures
• How to embed IP thinking into proposals, funding bids and project plans
• A breakdown of different commercialisation routes - licensing, spin-outs, CICs, etc.
• Real-world examples from Coventry University researchers
• Awareness of regional support through DigispinWM
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Speakers

Albi Lamaj is the Associate Director of Intellectual Property at Coventry University’s Innovation Ecosystem. She leads initiatives in technology transfer, IP commercialisation, and spin-out development. Albi plays a key role in projects like DigiSpin WM, supporting innovation and economic growth across the West Midlands. Albi Lamaj is the Principal Investigator and strategic lead for DigiSpin West Midlands, a pioneering programme funded by Research England to transform how universities collaborate on technology transfer, spin-out creation and IP commercialisation.

Elida Dode is an IP Commercialisation Executive at Coventry University and a key contributor to the DigiSpin West Midlands team. She supports the commercialisation of academic innovations, focusing on IP assessment, protection, and strategy. With a background in law and expertise in tech transfer, Elida helps drive regional collaboration and spin-out development.

What Is CreaTech Frontiers?

CreaTech Frontiers is a 5-year £7.2 million project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) establishing a West Midlands CreaTech ecosystem by funding collaborative R&D, supporting business innovation and developing skills and talent.

This event will be filmed and photographed. Footage may be used in post-event materials, highlights and social media. If you prefer not to appear on camera, please let a member of the team know on arrival.

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