Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

Professor Christine Haight Farley will be a speaker at the Annual Meeting of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (APILA) on October 19th.

New InfoJustice blog post on Daily Maverick Article “Politics, Patronage, and a Front Organisation Delay Vital Reform.” The article highlights how the CCIFSA has positioned itself as a quasi-political movement to mobilise support for the ANC and its leading figures.

A new InfoJustice blog post looks at a Creative Commons article in which an open letter from over 70 artists who use generative AI details both needs for generative AI and concerns regarding over-regulation or banning of AI and the impacts on small creators and businesses.

Andrés Izquierdo, Senior Research Analyst at PIJIP participated in the Eighth Session of the WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property (IP) and Frontier Technologies, centering on the crucial role of training data in shaping Generative AI capabilities and its intersection with copyright law.

Professor Victoria Phillips' paper “Intellectual Property Clinics—Helping to Empower All Creators” will be presented at the Mosaic IP Law and Policy Roundtable Conference hosted by the University of Illinois Chicago Law on October 27th and 28th.

Assistant Professor Charles Duan filed an amicus brief in the ASTM v. Public Resource copyright case. The issue in the case was whether private publishers could stop the republication of legally mandatory texts.