Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

Our department has invited the coordinators of the Africa Group, Asia Pacific Group, GRULAC, and their members to an off-the-record technical assistance workshop for delegations and capital officials.

PIJIP Senior Research Analyst Andres Izquierdo was recently named Co-Chair of the Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Copyright at the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA).

Professor Farley's new article compares trademark law in the U.S. and Canada to explore the limitations of federal and state or provincial law.

PIJIP’s project on Copyright and the Right to Research organized a group of leading copyright academics, stakeholders, and computational researchers for a policy retreat in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, February 23-25, 2024. The subject of the meeting was enabling African and other Global South uses of digital research tools without promoting “data colonialism” concerns, including wrongful uses of traditional knowledge and community-held information. 

Tracie Siddiqui, Practitioner-in-Residence in the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic, spoke on a panel at the Mid-Atlantic Clinical Conference hosted at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law this past Saturday, February 24.

PIJIP’s Arcadia project on the Right to Research hosted an academic retreat in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, February 23-25, 2024. The meeting gathered leading African experts and scholars on copyright law and computer science to discuss policy principles and a research agenda on enabling African and other Global South uses of digital research tools without promoting “data colonialism” concerns.