Please share links to research methodologies in the field of establishing the existence of copyright in the results of various types of creative activity or links to interesting case studies of non-conventional copyright.
Dear Daniyil Shmatkov thank you for asking this interesting technical question. As an inorganic chemist I personally did not care much about this issue, but I acknowledge that it it is certainly important to other researchers. In addition to the links which have already been suggested, please also have a look at the following potentially useful article:
Comparative Approaches to Fair Use: An Important Impulse for Reforms in EU Copyright Law
Article Comparative Approaches to Fair Use: An Important Impulse for...
This paper has been posted by the author as public full text on RG. Thus it can be freely downloaded as pdf file. Also please see the following RG link:
Study on Copyright Awareness among College Students
Article Study on Copyright Awareness among College Students
You can find and access other helpful references about this research topic by searching the "Publications" section of RG. For example, search e.g. for the term "study of copyright" and then click on "Publications". This will provide you numeous other relevant papers which have been posted by RG members, some of them even as public full texts: