Showcase Ready: Manage Your Creative Identity

Do you want to share your work online, but you are not sure how to protect it?

Do you want to showcase your work digitally and physically but are unsure of what to share?

Do you worry that someone might steal your work if you post it online? Have you been asked to share your work, but you are unsure of how much to share?

Roxanne Peters, UAL’s IP Education Specialist will share some key legal and ethical principles for you to consider as you think about how to present yourself online and in a physical space to encourage good working relationships and community building.

This session will cover:

• An introduction to intellectual property (IP) and what it means for creatives
• Opportunities and risks to sharing and creating your work digitally and physically
• Tips on best practice to help you best protect and manage your work
• Q&A for your burning questions

Speaker bio

Roxanne Peters is an IP educator, thinker and strategist, based at the University of Arts, London. She works internationally at the intersection of IP law, creative education, ethics and enterprise. Having worked in intellectual property strategy, advocacy and practice at the V&A, and for open culture platform Europeana Foundation, her approach to IP education has always been practice-led for non-legal communities, focusing on inclusive and democratic ways to connect. She co-designed an IP resource to support and encourage wider awareness of IP thinking within the creative industries and strives to continue to challenge colonial legacies of IP law and education.

Further support and resources

Visit the UAL Career Toolkit on moodle to discover a range of online learning resources aimed at developing your career skills at a pace that suits you.

Our course, From idea to industry: valuing your creative rights, has been designed to support you when thinking about how to best protect, manage and share your work. It will help you understand how your intellectual property (IP) works both at UAL and in professional practice.

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This event is organised by Careers and Employability and ispart of 'Showcase Ready' - a free programme of careers events where final year students can get the most from their UAL Showcase.

Taking place on campus and online, these events and activities support the preparation, presentation and professional skills final year students need to make a success of their final show. Sessions are delivered by creative industry professionals, expert advisers and UAL Careers and Employability staff.

Visit our webpage for more events and information.

Please note that this event is available to UAL current students, graduates, alumni and staff ONLY.

If you believe there are any barriers to your participation in this event or you have any access requirements you wish to discuss, we would be happy to talk to you. Please contact careersevents@arts.ac.uk in advance.

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Image Credit: Wall installation by Jasmin Aldridge, BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Alys Tomlinson