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Film, music, media and digital culture: the stories and moments that move the mainstream.
The government's monthly estimates say culture and creative sectors have outgrown the wider UK economy since 2019. Here is what the figures measure, what they cover and where the caveats lie.
The UK government's 2025 Creative Industries Sector Plan puts £380 million behind film, music, games and regional clusters. Here is what the published documents say it funds, and what they leave open.
Remix, reaction and commentary rely on other people's work. UK government guidance lists a few narrow exceptions to copyright, including parody, criticism, review and quotation. Here is what it says and what it leaves open.
A song in the background, a clip from a film, a sample from a track: how YouTube's Content ID, copyright claims, disputes and strikes work, and why a claim is not the same as a strike. A plain guide.
Why do some posts spread everywhere while most do not? What one widely cited study of a billion online sharing events found about broadcasts and person-to-person sharing, and what it cannot tell us.
