Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

Faculty Director Christine Farley has a guest post published in the Patently-O blog about Forney Industries' new color mark. 

The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) was among the founding partners in the creation of the Open COVID Pledge to make intellectual property available for use in ending the COVID-19 pandemic and minimizing the impact of the disease.

PIJIP, Creative Commons USA, and New America are hosting the webinar "Reading Aloud: Fair Use Enables Translating Classroom Practices to Online Learning," to describe how the fair use provision in U.S. copyright law permits many classroom read-aloud activities to be translated to the digital environment.

Once again, American University has been ranked in the top 10 for Intellectual Property by US News & World Report. No doubt our 45 IP courses, including the first in the nation IP Clinic (tied with Berkeley), 18 full time IP and tech faculty, 7 IP and tech student groups, including our student-run IP journal, specialized LL.M. in IP, and numerous IP and tech events, averaging one per week, have kept us in the top 10. For these reasons, American was also graded A+ in IP by National Jurist/preLaw Magazine.

This Article argues that U.S. copyright law provides a competitive advantage in the global race for innovation policy because it permits researchers to conduct computational analysis — text and data mining — on any materials to which they have access.

Significant concern and confusion has been generated by the relatively recent announcement by the Internet Society ("ISOC") that it will "sell" its subsidiary, Public Interest Registries ("PIR"), to the private equity firm Ethos Capital for more than 1.1 billion dollars... Because I teach nonprofit and charity law at American University's Washington College of Law, I recently appeared on a panel about the proposed transaction.