Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

Professor Sean Flynn and Creative Commons USA Lead Meredith Jacob represented PIJIP at Wikimania 2019 this month in Stockholm, Sweden. Flynn organized a session on "Advocacy/Copyright Advocacy Mapping." Jacob co-hosted a session on "Attribution: Laws, Norms, and Communicating to the Public", and was also a panelist on the session about CC's GLAM/Public Domain Awareness Project.

Prof. Christine Haight Farley has written a column on the Supreme Court's decision in Iancu v. Brunetti, which is featured in Patently-O.  

The Akron Law Review has published a new paper by PIJIP's Faculty Director, Professor Christine Haight Farley. The paper warns that a new generation of generic top-level domains incorporating full words will lead to conflicts in cases where the top-level domain is a generic word, geographic term, or trademark. 

On April 17, several generations of experts gathering at American University law school to remember, retell and relive highlights of 25 years of public interest advocacy around copyright and information access, and to look ahead – all with a focus on the unifying guidance of library advocate Prudence Adler, known to all as “Prue.

American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) received an A+ for Intellectual Property Law in rankings released in the Spring 2019 edition of PreLaw Magazine.

Daskal's essay analyzes the impetus and results of recent initiatives by the United States, European Union, and Australia to regulate law enforcement access to data, highlights their promise and their limits, and offers a way forward that protects speech, privacy, and other rights in the process