Intellectual Property and the Audiovisual Industries

Christopher Meir is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He has published widely on industrial issues and European cinema, including the monograph Mass Producing European Cinema: Studiocanal and Its Works (Bloomsbury, 2019) and the edited collection European Cinema in the Streaming Era: Policy, Platforms, and Production (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), which he co-edited with Roderik Smits. He has also acted as a consultant on issues related to streaming platforms for organizations including the European Commission, Eurimages and the European Audiovisual Production Association (CEPI). Along with Petar Mitric, he authored a report for CEPI which dealt specifically with intellectual property rights in the European audiovisual industries.

Marco Cucco is Associate Professor and Head of the postgraduate Master in Film and Audiovisual Management at the Department of Arts, University of Bologna, where he serves as coordinator of the PhD Program in “Arts, History, Society”. He received his PhD in Communication Sciences at the University of Lugano (Switzerland), and he has been visiting scholar at several universities: City University of New York (USA), Université de Lorraine (France), University of Leeds (UK), and Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium). His research interests concern mainly the film industry and policy. He wrote three books and many articles published by peer-reviewed journals like Studies in European Cinema, Film Studies, European Journal of Communication, Media, Culture & Society, Journal of Transcultural Communication, Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies. He is currently vice-chair of the Film Studies Section of ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association).

Paola Brembilla is associate professor at the University of Bologna, where she teaches Television and Digital Media. Her research interests concern the interplay of business models, narrative forms and socio-cultural contexts in serial narratives, especially TV series and media franchises. She is the author of articles, chapters and books, among which La televisione italiana. Storie, generi e linguaggi (with L. Barra and V. Innocenti, Pearson 2024), Franchise Mediali. Industrie, narrazioni, pubblici (Pàtron, 2023) and It’s All Connected. L’evoluzione delle serie TV statunitensi (Franco Angeli, 2018). With Ilaria A. De Pascalis, she edited the volume Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes (Routledge, 2018).