Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

PIJIP Director Sean Flynn and Klaus Beiter Professor of Law at North-West University South Africa, submitted joint comments to the U.S. Trade Representative about Copyright in South Africa in response to IIPA allegations that South Africa is not in compliance with international copyright treaties.

PIJIP has published a new working paper by Anthony D. Rosborough of the European University Institute and Aaron Perzanowski of the University of Michigan. The paper is part of our series on the Right to Research in International Copyright.

Professor Christine Farley will participate in Strafford webinar Trademarks, Parody, and the First Amendment: Guidance from the Supreme Court’s Jack Daniel’s Decision tomorrow July 25th from 1 PM-2:30 PM EDT.

Professor Christine Haight Farley coauthored a blog post with Professor Margaret Chon of Seattle University on trademark extraterritoriality in the wake of the Supreme Court decision in Abitron v. Hetronic.

This month, PIJIP Senior Research Analyst Andrés Izquierdo attended the World Intellectual Property (WIPO) General Assembly on behalf of the Global Network on Copyright User Rights.

Prof. Christina Haight Farley quoted in a Bloomberg Law article about the Abitron v. Hetronic decision in which the Supreme Court held the Lanham Act does not extend to trademark infringement outside of the U.S. and reversed and remanded to the Tenth Circuit.