Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

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.

Professor Farley spoke at the Trademark and Unfair Competition Law panel at Texas A&M University School of Law's 10th Anniversary IP Conference “A Decade of Growth and Transformation in Intellectual Property and Technology Law” Symposium.

The copyright panel focused on copyright law discussed how the Warhol opinion should have been structured, and acknowledged the correctly decided elements of the decision.

The panel dove into the implications of the Supreme Court’s recent Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC decision.