SCRIPT (AHRC Centre)

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SCRIPT is the acronym for the Scottish Centre for Research in Intellectual Property and Technologies, located at the School of Law in the University of Edinburgh. SCRIPT is also known as the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law. The Centre is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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[edit] History and objectives

The AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law was originally established with private sector funding as SCRIPT (the Shepherd and Wedderburn Centre for Research in Intellectual Property and Technologies); the Centre has now been running for a total of eight years. While the main research areas, those of intellectual property law, technology law, and medical law and jurisprudence have remained constant, the themes covered have responded to changes in law, policy, and society more generally. The first five years of operation have witnessed the emergence of a number of networks in different areas of specialist expertise supplementing those already in existence by staff in the Centre and providing suitable platforms from which to take forward further research in key areas. Examples of such networks are contacts within the healthcare sector, human rights policymakers and competition lawyers, privacy and data protection advisors, and those involved in Creative Commons policymaking. The broad aims of the Centre are to pursue ground-breaking research at the interface between law and technologies, seeking the appropriate balance to be struck between encouraging creativity and innovation while respecting the needs of the public domain.