Creative Work Research Articles

Book Review: The Copyright Thing Doesn’t Work Here: Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana

The Copyright Thing Doesn’t Work Here: Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana, by Boatema Boateng, is an excellent case study of the uneasy fit between the global intellectual property (IP) system and postcolonial contexts, as well as a great introduction to challenges in the field for readers seeking more just IP systems. IP makes creative work legible for certain kinds of ownership: it arbitrates who can copy what, and ideally gets somebody paid. But who? The answer, in the case of adinkra and kente cloth, is often not the artisans but the nation-state that claims the work as collectively “Ghanian,” and factories in Asia that scale up production of the designs for their own, cheaper textiles. “IP” overrides the significance of the cloth to its producers and their understandings of copying, appropriate remuneration, and authorship.

Creativity, credit, and copyright in the age of artificial art

ABSTRACT Generative artificial intelligence is transforming the way we make, and think about, art. With prompting from human users, these generative systems now produce aesthetically compelling and seemingly creative works in a variety of artistic domains. In doing so, they challenge the ways we think about artistic credit, about creativity, and about the mechanism of legal copyright, which is meant to protect and promote creativity in a capitalist art market. All of this is currently at play in the courtroom, as artists contest the ways in which their artworks can be rightfully fed into these artificial systems (“the problem of the inputs”), and other artists are challenged over whether they might be credited for the visual images these systems generate (“the problem of the outputs”). Here, we explore these problems as they arise in visual art. We argue that the contested legal landscape surrounding these artificial systems reflects the ways they challenge our received notions of artistic credit and creativity. And we suggest that clarifying or changing the application of copyright in light of their generative capacities will ultimately involve revising our conception of art.

Scar Tissue That I Wish You Saw: Creativity Scars and Their Impact on Creative Work

Scar Tissue That I Wish You Saw: Creativity Scars and Their Impact on Creative Work

Job satisfaction and turnover: The role of creativity, engagement, and decent work amongst employees

Orientation: The South African public service faces the challenge of a high labour turnover among its employees. There is a need for strategies to not only keep employees happy at work but also to retain them.Research purpose: The study investigates the determinants of job satisfaction and turnover intention accounting for the role of employee creativity, engagement and decent work.Motivation for the study: There is a need for strategies to not only retain employees within the public service but also to ensure the employees are satisfied with their jobs.Research approach/design and method: A cross-sectional survey was conducted with a convenience sample of 304 employees working within the South African public service in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) (version 25) and the Linear Structural Relations (LISREL) software packages were used to analyse data.Main findings: It was established that higher ratings of decent work experience relate positively to employee ratings of engagement in the work and that they also influenced outcomes such as job satisfaction and employee turnover intentions.Practical/managerial implications: The findings are a useful precursor in improving not just the work experience for employees but also work related outcomes such as job satisfaction and turnover intention.Contribution/value-add: The study findings give practical interventions to address the challenge of high turnover and the dearth of job satisfaction among public service employees.

Humans and Education in Islam: Optimising Multidimensional Potential for a Cultured and Productive Society

The research aims to analyze humans and education in Islam. The qualitative research method, the type of library research that is explored, is sourced from the library. The author uses a content analysis approach model (research content). This research is an in-depth discussion of the content of written or printed information in the mass media. Data analysis was carried out through content analysis, including all content analysis of the Al-Qur'an text and books related to human themes and education in Islam. The research results show that (1) Humans are multi-dimensional creatures with perception, sensation, and intellectual powers. Human potential is actualized in the form of creative works. (2) Humans are expressed in terms of basyar and insan. Basyar refers to their physical appearance, while insan refers to their psychological qualities, namely the power of feeling and the power of reasoning. (3) Humans and education are two elements that cannot be separated because humans, with all their potential, can be empowered through education and training. Education is an essential part of human life. With education, humans can actualize themselves in the form of work, which is manifested in science, art, and culture. This work is a human effort to overcome the difficulties of life.

Therapeutic Gardening Groups with Children and Young People Who Have Experienced Maltreatment

ABSTRACT Despite the burgeoning interest in eco-social work, there is a dearth of publications exploring eco-social work practice with children and young people who experience violence, abuse, and neglect. Social workers are committed to service delivery to children and young people and, as such, are ideally placed to create and expand on eco-social work practice. The authors argue that therapeutic gardening groups with children and young people who have experienced abuse and violence deserve a place in the eco-social work field. This article describes an established gardening program that successfully ran for five years. In this article we summarise the group work program, illuminate children's and young people's experiences of the groups, and share insights and reflections from the facilitators of these groups. Finally, the authors impress upon readers the need for researchers and practitioners to contribute to this growing body of social work knowledge. IMPLICATIONS Gardening is a potential place of healing for children and young people who have experienced violence, exploitation abuse, and neglect. Gardening is a site for creative eco-social work practice. Further research is needed to explore the use of gardening as a therapeutic intervention.

Emotion and Inspiration through Generative AI Art

Art inspires emotion. The process of creation invigorates the senses and keeps the researcher on fire. To create artistic masterpieces using words through natural language processing further stimulates the mind and helps to overcome writer’s block. An AI tool interprets the words and transforms them into artistic expressions that feel like magic. Yet, AI art is not without consequences. Critics challenge the digital rights of AI-generated images, noting that they are derivative works. This paper examines the joy of creation as well as the copyright challenges creators face when writing detailed prompts to generate amazing artwork. The role of affective computing illustrates the relationship between the designer and the AI tool while ethical concerns remind designers to use caution in their prompts. The article examines the architecture of a prompt, the characteristics to enhance it, and examples of generative AI art. Additional content includes references to handouts, art catalogs, and legal opinions regarding the copyright debate. The article concludes with a recommendation with respect to the intellectual property rights of artists and their creative work.

Model analysis of private teachers' innovative work behavior improvement after the COVID-19 pandemic

After the COVID-19 pandemic, educational organizations' learning process experienced significant changes, especially related to innovative work behavior. It is undeniable that building innovative work behavior requires strong self-efficacy and organizational commitment and is supported by conducive workplace happiness. This research aims to analyze models for improving the innovative work behavior of private teachers after the COVID-19 pandemic based on self-efficacy, organizational commitment, and workplace happiness. The research model is oriented towards a quantitative causality approach. Data was collected online using a Google form, and a sample of 100 teachers was obtained. Using a purposive sampling formula, the foundation for sample determination is geared toward a non-probability sampling strategy. Instrument tests, normality tests, regression tests, correlation tests, hypothesis tests, and coefficient of determination were all utilized in data analysis. The results of the study demonstrate that innovative work behavior is highly influenced by workplace happiness, organizational commitment, and self-efficacy. According to the study's conclusions, encouraging creative work behavior requires teachers to have the confidence to do so. Furthermore, the psychological state of educators has a significant impact on their ability to generate novel and creative ideas.

Novels by A.A. Zinoviev as works of a new genre

The article analyzes the novels of A.A. Zinoviev from the perspective of genre specificity and artistic techniques that the author inherits from previous literature. Proximity to the artistic traditions of M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin and J. Swift’s texts allow us to consider Zinoviev’s texts in the context of world artistic culture, but the peculiarities of the organization of the novel space and the angle of the writer's point of view on social reality indicate that his novels do not fit into the usual genre canons and should be considered as sociological novels. The results obtained expand the traditional understanding of the genre of the novel, describe interesting author’s intentions of the world order, reveal the relationship between the artistic word and sociological statistical data, and give impetus to further research of the creative work of an extraordinary writer.

Rethinking creative commons licensing: A policy proposal to safeguard against copyright trolling and enhance knowledge sharing

This paper addresses the pressing need to reform Creative Commons (CC) licensing in response to the challenges posed by copyright trolling. The paper highlights how these factors undermine the integrity of knowledge-sharing ecosystems by examining the economic motivations behind copyright trolling and the ambiguities in existing CC licenses. It proposes a dual approach that combines policy advocacy with theoretical development, recommending clear licensing language, anti-trolling provisions, and the establishment of an oversight body to protect users while maintaining creator incentives. Through case studies and analysis, the paper illustrates the potential benefits of these reforms, advocating for a more equitable and inclusive framework that fosters creativity, collaboration, and access to knowledge. Ultimately, the aim is to recalibrate the balance of power within the licensing landscape, ensuring that both creators and users can engage freely and securely in sharing creative works.

Application and Research of AIGC in Contemporary Art Design Curriculum

The influence of AIGC on art and design education is reflected in many aspects, which promotes the change of creative methods, teaching methods and students thinking. With the development of AIGC technology, students in the design discipline are able to quickly generate a variety of creative works, which not only improves their design ability, but also inspires greater creative inspiration. Teachers gradually realize that the AIGC tool must be integrated into the curriculum to help students understand the application of AIGC in design and its potential. On the whole, AIGC has brought new opportunities and challenges to art and design education, requiring the educational community to constantly adapt and innovate in order to cultivate future design talents.

Is prompt engineering the future of screenwriting? Views of professional screenwriters and commissioners about the impact of AI technologies on their profession

This article presents a qualitative interview study of Finnish screenwriters and commissioners about the impact of generative artificial intelligence on the profession of screenwriting. We ask how screenwriters and commissioners see the benefits and risks of AI tools in screenwriting and how screenwriters see their changing profession in the future. We identify three stances towards AI-driven work practices in screenwriting. The functional, critical and curious stance reflect the ways in which the writers position themselves against AI technologies. Prompt engineering has emerged as a new skill in commanding AI and will become a conventional part of creative work.

O trudach dialogu – sztuka komunikacji z AI w projektowaniu

The rapid spread of LLMs (large language models) and other technologies based on generated content and image has significantly impacted the perception of creative work, including the area of product design. Tools using generative AI enable the acceleration or facilitation of the ideation processes, producing many different solutions to a given problem. Beside facilitating creative processes due to automation of some tasks, especially those based on working with large databases, generative AI can assume a form of specific creativity stimulator. The key notion conditioning the effective use of generative AI tools is the ability of asking adequate questions. This requires increased engagement in works towards changes in education, currently directed to reproduction and memorisation. Contrary to popular opinion, popularisation of AI as element of design process could result in expanding the spectrum of designer’s possibilities. Methodical education in compliance with the basics of cause-and-effect thinking and teaching the analytical design approach guarantee providing the young generation with solid foundation of collaboration with generative AI models. Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI), design education, creativity

Prawa autorskie wobec sztucznej inteligencji. Czy istnieje jeszcze szansa na ich skuteczną ochronę?

We have all been affected by the euphoria connected with AI, and we have all followed the on-going discussion about our future, supported by thinking machines, which can replace us in many activities, and maybe professions as well. We can observe the media race to the news feeds about the use of generative AI. What is often left aside, however, is the inconvenient topic of legal consequences of such modifications to human work that is used to train AI, and there are many. This article addresses the issue of the clash of copyright with AI. It discusses the matters of using someone’s creative work to design AI systems, as well as the consequences of a designer’s work with AI, especially on commercial projects, including the notion of copyrights to the content generated by means of such tools, and attempts to determine when there is a chance to grant their protection. These considerations are complemented with examples of legal actions taken against suppliers of AI systems. Part of the text has been dedicated to discussing the pending regulations, especially the Act on AI. Keywords: copyright, artificial intelligence (AI), fair use

THE SYN(ES)THESIS PROJECT – A MULTI-PURPOSE EXPERIMENT IN INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS

In the spring of 2021, the “Pancho Vladigerov” House Museum in Sofia brought to life a new creative initiative that aimed to simultaneously enlarge the scope of the museum’s activities, open up new artistic paths, and allow for an innovative approach to the cultivation of a wider audience base given the ongoing pandemic at the time. In April of the same year, the SYN(es)THESIS Project was officially introduced to the public through its inaugural concert exhibition; since then, it has involved the partnership and support of no less than twelve institutions in Bulgaria and has culminated in three complete annual editions with multiple events and components. Three years later, with a remarkable array of creative results in several artistic fields, the project presents the intriguing tale of an original interdisciplinary experiment. This paper invites a closer look into its structure and organization, its participants' compelling and inspired productions, and its potential for further expansion into new creative territories following its main established principles. In its essence, the SYN(es)THESIS Project aims to explore the multitude of possibilities for synthesis, interactions, and interconnections between the various arts through inspired individual and group-coordinated creative work. As such, it is meant to build bridges, often in unexpected ways, between artists, artistic disciplines, and institutions at multiple levels, even between the educational and professional spheres and their respective audiences. To foster the above goals, the project employs an array of creative approaches that, as its very name suggests, allow for manifold combinations and artistic interpretations. In practice, the root words “SYN” (Greek, “together”), “THESIS” (“statement”), “aesthesh” (“feeling”), and “SYNTHESIS” all have a certain relationship to its main guiding principles; and, while the number of these morphemes is fixed, the project does provide an open framework in which the potential directions for artistic work can, at least in theory, be limited only by one’s imagination and the specific relationships between the various creative mediums. In this regard, the project encompasses a rather open general format; concurrently, with every new session, all possibilities are narrowed down to specific combinations of artistic activities. This consequently allows for a clear, yet ever-evolving structure to be re-established as the basis for creative work.

Provision of "Isms" and Spontaneous Art: From the Development of Art History

This paper explores the development of art from early cave paintings to modern Provisionism and spontaneous art, analyzing how art, as a significant form of human cultural expression, has continuously evolved with changes in society and technology. As time progresses, the definition and boundaries of art are no longer fixed but have expanded along with the shifting roles of artists. The rise of Provisionism indicates that artists are no longer merely creators of works but designers of audience experiences, with the meaning of artworks further extended and enriched through audience participation. At the same time, spontaneous art blurs the line between art and everyday life, suggesting that ordinary actions and improvisations can be considered art in the right context. This paper also discusses how these emerging art forms challenge traditional art concepts and provide new perspectives for the future development of art.

Quantum Machine Learning: Exploring the Role of Data Encoding Techniques, Challenges, and Future Directions

Quantum computing and machine learning (ML) have received significant developments which have set the stage for the next frontier of creative work and usefulness. This paper aims at reviewing various data-encoding techniques in Quantum Machine Learning (QML) while highlighting their significance in transforming classical data into quantum systems. We analyze basis, amplitude, angle, and other high-level encodings in depth to demonstrate how various strategies affect encoding improvements in quantum algorithms. However, they identify major problems with encoding in the framework of QML, including scalability, computational burden, and noise. Future directions for research outline these challenges, aiming to enhance the excellence of encoding techniques in the constantly evolving quantum technology setting. This review shall enable the researcher to gain an enhanced understanding of data encoding in QML, and it also suggests solutions to the current limitations in this area.

Walking the Digital Tightrope: Diversity and voice in creative platform work

This study examines how diversity shapes creative platform workers’ access to and exercise of voice within the precarious landscape of platform capitalism. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concepts of capital and field, we explore unique qualitative materials collected from 40 Brazilian literary content creators. The findings show that creative platform workers’ access to and exercise of voice is based on three conditions of privilege: playing the rules of the game; drawing on bundles of resources; and leveraging intermediation capacity. We identify four forms of voice among creative platform workers – shielding, demonstrating, ingroup-focused gatekeeping and affirmative voices – and highlight the relational dynamics of power in this context. This research contributes to understanding diversity in creative platform work through a privilege lens, thereby revealing the complex dynamics of power and dependence that creative platform workers experience with different industry stakeholders. This study contributes to the literature about diversity and voice by: showing that online prestige alone does not ensure voice opportunities; unveiling the variety of targets and agents in the four forms of voice in creative platform work; and highlighting the limitations of collective voice in challenging existing privilege and disadvantage systems.

Retelling: a New Genre or an Insufficiently Investigated “Old” Notion?

The article focuses on the phenomenon known as “retelling”. The mass reader, both domestic and foreign, perceives retelling as one of the neterature genres. The word “retelling” is borrowed from the English language. According to the English-language publications concerning retelling, in modern mass consciousness this concept corresponds, on the one hand, to the methods of borrowing and processing plots, known in European culture since antiquity, on the other, to a system of primary and secondary features, reproduced in mass literature texts. However, neither American nor British literary criticism knows such a genre. Foreign literary critics use the term “adaptation”, which implies one type of the text transformation: from a literary work to a theatrical production or film. Russian researchers apply the term “adaptation” to the alterations of classical literature for theatre, cinema, television and computer games. Although in the English language culture retelling is perceived as a new, recently emerged phenomenon, the first authorʼs adaptations of classical works appeared at the beginning of the 19th century. The collection of stories “Tales from Shakespeare”, written by Charles and Mary Lamb can be considered the first example of a “retelling” adaptation. The “Preface” to the stories contains the principles, formulated by the authors. According to the given principles they reworked Shakespeareʼs plays for childrenʼs reading. These principles fall under both the concept of “retelling” and the concept of “adaptation”. The research shows that though “retelling” is perceived as one of the characteristic features of modern culture, this phenomenon existed as a conscious way of creative working with text for at least two centuries. This phenomenon is not a genre, but a set of techniques for transforming a text, a still insufficiently studied universal of literary creativity.

Образ Италии в аспекте «фронтирного восприятия» в «итальянских» очерках С. П. Шевырева

The research aims to characterize the features of building the image of Italy in S. P. Shevyrev’s travel essays in the aspect of “frontier perception”. The scientific novelty of the paper is determined by the insufficient study of the topic of Italy in Shevyrev’s works and by the attention to the “frontier aspect” of Italy’s image in Shevyrev’s artistic consciousness. The paper traces the influence of the concepts of J. G. Herder (on the interconnectedness of cultures of different peoples in the synchronic and diachronic contexts of history) and J. J. Winckelmann (on the influence of climate on the appearance of the people) on the ethnopoetics of Shevyrev’s travel prose. The research identifies and describes a number of positions in which Shevyrev brings together the culture of Italy and Russia (characteristics of the natural and urban landscape; architectural features of buildings; details of material culture; folk traditions). The idea is justified that the traveler, comparing “his own” and “foreign”, is in the cultural “frontier zone”, which is reflected in his travel notes. The research contributes to the study of S. P. Shevyrev’s creative work, to the exploration of the travel prose of the first half of the 19th century. In addition, using the “frontier” approach expands the range of methodological directions for the study of travel literature.