Engaging in everyday creative activities improves affect, health, and well-being. In this chapter, we examine the affective benefits of both artistic and non-artistic creative activities and the emotion regulation strategies used to achieve these benefits. Considerably more research has examined the affective benefits of artistic than non-artistic activities. The existing studies reveal several distinct emotion regulation strategies used in creative activities – approach, avoidance, and self-development – with the use of these strategies differing by activity. The studies also reveal a clear difference in the affective goals for artistic versus non-artistic creative activities. Artistic activities are used to reduce negative affect whereas non-artistic activities are used to enhance or maintain positive affect. Further research is needed to determine whether this difference is genuine or an artifact of study design. Additional work is also needed to determine the underlying mechanisms accounting for how these activities improve affect and thereby regulate our emotions. We conclude with recommendations for further research in this area.

We turn now to the important question of what constitutes a ‘quotation’. Clearly, the breadth of the concept of ‘quotation’ will affect the scope of any quotation exception and so it is vital to identify what can be characterised as quotation. Our central argument in this chapter is that the concept of ‘quotation’ in Article 10(1) is far wider than the ‘typical’ case of textual quotation and that the attributes of ‘typical’ quotation must not be elevated to conditions for the availability of the exception.