Schedule
Thursday, April 20 / Murray Function Room
4:30PM – 5:30PM Opening
Anjali Vats, “Race + IP: A Short History – Also Prince”
Kembrew McLeod, “The Death of An (Uncredited) Author: Clyde Stubblefield, Music Industry Politics and Western Intellectual Property Regimes”
5:30PM – 7:30PM Plenary Session 1: Critical Race IP Theories, Aims, Methods
Boatema Boateng, “Critical Race IP: Transnational Vision, Transnational Challenges”
Laura Foster, Indiana University, “Decolonizing Patent Ownership: A Feminist Decolonial Technoscience Approach”
Madhavi Sunder, “IP and Asian Values”
Jessica Silbey (Moderator)
Friday, April 21 / Murray Function Room + Stokes Building
8:00AM – 9:00AM Breakfast / Murray Function Room
9:00AM – 11:00AM Plenary Session #2: IP and the Racialized Subject / Murray Function Room
Bita Amani, “Law, Race & Alchemy: Exclusive Rights, Existential Crises and Transformative Possibilities for Intellectual Properties”
Michael Birnhack, “Trademark Mosaic: Law and Nationality in Mandate Palestine, 1921-1948”
Roopali Mukherjee, “Bio-Brand in the Blacking Factory”
Anjali Vats (Moderator)
11:15AM – 12:45PM Concurrent Sessions #1 / Stokes Building
Stealing, Borrowing, and Appropriating / 203N
Gilbert Rodman, “Textual Stealing? or (Williams and) Thicke as Thieves?: Copyright, Race, and Elusive Justice”
Betsy Rosenblatt, “Intellectual Property’s One-way Appropriation Ratchet”
Mel Stanfill, “(Stealing) Up is (Borrowing) Down: Race and the Uneven Application of IP Rights”
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Critical Race IP: Theories and Methods / 295S
Carys Craig, “A Critique of Rights in the Copyright Context”
Richard Schur, “The Role of Storytelling in Critical Race IP”
North/South Conflicts TRIPS / 301N
Pulkit Kaushik, “Conflict and Settlement: A History of Intellectual Property and Critical Analysis of TRIPS”
Behrang Kianzad, “Using Competition Law Within the TRIPS Agreement to Address Global North Dominance in the Field of Patented Medicines”
Aurelia Schultz, “Connected Fights for Equality: A Comparison of Developing Country Special Treatment in International IP Agreements and Affirmative Action in the United States”
1:00PM – 2:15PM Roundtable Lunch / Murray Function Room
International Trade, Copyrights, and Developing Countries
Saptarishi Bandopadhyay (Moderator)
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Informing / Empowering the Public: A Discussion of Three New Books Which Explore Race and IP (IIPSJ/MOSAIC)
Deidre Keller (Moderator)
Lateef Mtima (Moderator)
Mossi K. Tull (Moderator)
Knowledge in Global Value Chains
Amit Basole (Moderator)
2:30PM – 4:00PM Concurrent Sessions #2 / Stokes Building
Incubator Session
(IIPSJ/ Mosaic) / 476S
Brian Frye, “Liberation Innovation: Antebellum African-American Intellectual Property”
Keith Robinson, “Access to the Patent System”
Race and IP Institutions / 203N
Zehra Ayranci, “Intellectual Property and International Law to Ensure Social Justice in Global Entertainment Industries”
Robert Brauneis and Dotan Oliar, “The Disparate Impacts of Patent and Copyright Law: Revealing the Race of Inventors and Authors”
Gautam Hans, “Agency Capture”
Racial Disparities in IP / 401N
Ann Bartow, “The Economics of Race and Gender in Art Law”
Steven Jamar, “IP and Freedom of Speech”
4:00PM – 4:30PM Coffee and Tea Break / Murray Function Room
4:30PM – 6:30PM Plenary Session #3: Decentering Piracies / Murray Function Room
Lisa Ikemoto, “Discovery + Race: From ‘Savages’ to HeLa”
Lawrence Liang, “Race and the Desire of Education: Public Law 480 and the Secret History of the DU Photocopy Case”
Henry Stobart, “Piracy and the Pink Tide: Shifting Landscapes of Music Production, Distribution, and Indigeneity in Bolivia and Beyond”
Amit Basole (Moderator)
Saturday, April 22 / Murray Function Room + Fulton Building
8:00AM – 9:00AM Breakfast / Murray Function Room
9:00AM – 11:00AM Plenary Session #4: Racing Creativity and the Creative Arts / Murray Function Room, Yawkey Center
KJ Greene, “Straight Outta Lawsuits: Hip Hop Music and Copyright Law As the Once and Future Bane of African-American Cultural Production”
Anthea Kraut, “Race, Choreographic Copyright, and Intellectual Property in the Body”
Minh-Ha T. Pham, “Networked Media and the Racial License to Fashion Copy”
Alfred Yen (Moderator)
11:15AM – 12:45PM Concurrent Sessions #3
IP and Racial Identity / 310
Tonya Evans, “Termination Power!: When IP Creators of Color Reclaim Copyright”
Jasjot Maan, “Race, National Identity, and Intellectual Property”
Kara Swanson, “Patents and African American Civil Rights”
Race, Nations, and IPRs / 425
Benjamin Chen, “Is China’s Brand Industry Stifled by its Counterfeit Culture?”
Courtney Cole, “The Public Afterlife of Personal Testimony: Legal and Ethical Issues of Truth Commission’s Intellectual Property in South Africa, Sierra Leone, and Liberia”
Jason Zenor, “(De)Termination? How Western Intellectual Property Law Protects the Misappropriation of Native American Cultural Property”
1:00PM – 2:15PM Roundtable Lunch / Murray Function Room
Teaching Race in the IP Classroom (IIPSJ/Mosaic)
Ann Bartow (Moderator)
IP and Social Activism: How Community Organizers, Policy Activists, and Legal Scholars Can Protect the Public Interest (IIPSJ/MOSAIC)
Guatam Hans
Taylor Moore
Lateef Mtima
Josh Lamel (Moderator)
IP and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
Dev Kumar
2:30 – 4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions #4 / Fulton Building
Traditional Knowledge and IP / 310
Rosemary Coombe and Ali Malik, “Rethinking the Work of Geographical Indications”
J. Janewa Oseitutu, “IP and Cultural Boundaries”
Social Justice and IP / 423
Victoria Ekstrand and Stephanie Mahin, “Trademarking #BlackLivesMatter: Social Movements, Political Speech, and a Critique of USPTO Practice”
Shontavia Johnson, “Intellectual Property Ownership in Social Movements”
Taylor Moore, “Trade Secrets and Algorithms as Barriers to IP Social Justice”
Free Speech and Critical Race IP / 425
Bita Amani and Carys Craig, “Under the Skin: New Trademark Slants on Slurs and Offensive Marks”
Brian Rowe, “Remix Culture”
4:00 – 4:30 PM Break / Murray Function Room
4:30- 6:30 PM Plenary Session #5: Reimagining IP / Murray Function Room
Jane Anderson, “De-colonial Futures: Local Contexts and the Traditional Knowledge Labels and Licenses Project”
Margaret Chon
Adam Haupt, “Decolonising Knowledge: Reading Hip-Hop Sampling in Relation to Scholarly Publishing”
6:30- 7:00 PM Conference Close
Deidre Keller