Experience

UAL Creative Shift

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• (UAL) Creative Shift - Advisory Group Member

  • Feb 2022 - Present

  Creative Shift believe in shaping diversity and equity in the creative industries and aim to empower University of the Arts London students who are least represented in the creative sector. https://www.linkedin.com/company/ual-creative-shift/about/?viewAsMember=true Creative Shift believe in shaping diversity and equity in the creative industries and aim to empower University of the Arts London students who are least represented in the creative sector. https://www.linkedin.com/company/ual-creative-shift/about/?viewAsMember=true



Serpentine

• United Kingdom
• Museums
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Serpentine Legal Lab- Advisory Board member

  • Nov 2020 - Present

  The Legal Lab is part of the Serpentine’s R&D Platform and is led by Alana Kushnir (curator, art lawyer and founder of Guest Work Agency). Its purpose is to facilitate dialogue between industry leaders across law, art, technology and science; identify the legal issues affecting art and technology collaborations; discern related ethical and policy-based concerns; and develop accessible tools and resources to improve the legal aspects of collaborations between artists, technologists and scientists. The Advisory Board is composed of artists, technologists, innovators, lawyers acting on a pro bono basis to foster innovation. Show less



University of the Arts London

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• IP Education Specialist

  • Apr 2018 - Present

  An advocate for IP education, working with creatives to identify the value of their intellectual property as part of their creative agency, business strategy and ways to positively influence in innovative practice. An advocate for IP education, working with creatives to identify the value of their intellectual property as part of their creative agency, business strategy and ways to positively influence in innovative practice.



Victoria and Albert Museum

• United Kingdom
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intellectual Property Manager

  • Apr 2013 - Apr 2018

  -Lead on policy review and implementation e.g. the V&A’s approach to managing risk for publishing content online, to ensure that the Museum respects the law and is aligned with peer organisations-Advocate on behalf of the V&A for changes to UK and EU copyright law; representing the Museum’s interests via government consultations including an updated law for designers.-Develop strategies to embed rights management into all museum practice including enhancements to system-led project management tools-Manage, Develop and Deliver training to a non-legal audience on how to manage relationships with artists, designers and other rights holders to negotiate fair licensing agreements-Lead a rights management working group, ensuring that all public access interests and commercial opportunities are aligned. Show less

• Europeana Fashion Project Manager

  • Nov 2013 - May 2015

  -Led on V&A’s award-winning Europeana Fashion digital resource; managing all content creation and delivery, rights clearance and budget control-Authored internationally recognised Fashion and Intellectual Property Guidelines; setting standard for best practice management of IP in fashion content, archives and collections-Project Managed the 2nd Annual Europeana Fashion Conference ‘Made in Italy: reuse of fashion heritage and new digital perspectives’ for 250 delegates from 15 countries-Represented the V&A internationally as an industry expert to promote the V&A’s collections to new audiences via conference papers, key stakeholder events and social media. Show less

• Rights Project Manager

  • Jun 2011 - Mar 2013

  Secondment to lead on the V&A's first review of how the Museum's rights and 3rd party rights are managed and used-Advised senior management on IP policy and procedural recommendations for access and reuse of collections and content-Researched and authored the V&A’s first guidelines to practically manage IP-Designed a user interface and algorithm in the collections management database to enable staff to correctly catalogue copyright information and understand how content can be used-Developed and implemented a data cleaning strategy for all legacy rights information. Show less

• Image Rights Manager

  • Apr 2005 - May 2011

  -Created and Led a team to licence V&A owned content for non-commercial activities-Designed and Implemented a procedure to cross-departmentally manage photography and licensing for objects on international loan-Commissioned and Licensed photography for objects featured in international exhibitions.

• Image Licensing Coordinator

  • Nov 2003 - Apr 2005

  Licensed images, managed print sales, coordinated film crews and photographers.



Europeana

• Netherlands
• Museums
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intellectual Property Advisor

  • Aug 2015 - Aug 2017

  Responsibilities include: - Facilitating workshops across Europe to encourage cultural heritage institutions (CHI) to best manage and share cultural content openly via digital platforms. This includes workshops with 50 institutional and governmental representatives in Glasgow and Madrid. - Building a community within the Europeana Foundation (EF) network to enable exchange, shared knowledge and best practice when managing creative rights. - Leading on a policy review to ensure EF remains a standard bearer for technical innovation and best practice across the cultural sector. - Influencing the European Commission on important required updates to copyright law to help make it easier to publish digital heritage online. Show less