Conference on Culture & Intellectual Property – Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy
Culture & IP:
Analogs to IP Around the World
Thursday, April 27,
Friday, April 28, 2023
Hosted Online Via Zoom
— VA CLE being requested —
Cultures influence the development of Intellectual Property systems, and Intellectual Property systems influence how cultures develop. This conference will focus on that interplay through the lens of analogs to Intellectual Property in various cultures. This conference brings together scholars from around the globe to discuss how and whether Intellectual Property systems and their analogs co-exist, influence, and inform each other.
Registration coming soon
Readings and CLE Materials coming later
All listed times are in Eastern Daylight Time Zone (EDT) (Convert time zones here)
3:00 – 3:15 PM EDT: OPENING REMARKS
3:15 – 3:25 PM EDT: OVERVIEW OF PANEL 1: THE FUTURE OF IP AND RELIGION
3:25 – 4:55 PM EDT: PANEL 1: THE FUTURE OF IP AND RELIGION
This panel will discuss the future of intellectual property (IP) and religion, considering current perspectives regarding the role religion can play in developing modern IP law. Examining scholarly trends in the study of IP and religion, this panel will discuss how different religions treat modern challenges to IP law and the extent to which it can inform the development of future IP doctrine.
4:55 – 5:15 PM EDT: CONFERENCE BREAK
5:15 – 5:25 PM EDT: OVERVIEW OF PANEL 2: INDIGENOUS COSMOLOGIES AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH NATURE
5:25 – 6:55 PM EDT: PANEL 2: INDIGENOUS COSMOLOGIES AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH NATURE
In a sense, property describes a legal relationship between people and things. This panel examines how Indigenous peoples relate to natural things, and how these relationships are analogs to intellectual property. We will also examine Indigenous perspectives on intellectual property-like rights more broadly. Can intellectual property reflect Indigenous cosmologies or are they at fundamental odds?
6:55 – 7:00 PM EDT: CLOSING REMARKS & CONFERENCE ADJOURNS
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2023
All listed times are in Eastern Daylight Time Zone (EDT) (Convert time zones here)
8:55 – 9:00 AM EDT: WELCOME-BACK REMARKS
9:00 – 9:10 AM EDT: OVERVIEW OF PANEL 3: GATEKEEPING/GATEOPENING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN CULTURAL EXPRESSION
9:10 – 10:40 AM EDT: PANEL 3: GATEKEEPING/GATEOPENING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN CULTURAL EXPRESSION
We examine and challenge the traditional boundary-drawing of IP and ask: how do we expand the reach of IP to include underrepresented artists and expressive works? And how can we compel IP, or IP’s analogues, not to “keep” but rather to “open” their gates to a broad range of cultural expression?
10:40 – 11:00 AM EDT: CONFERENCE BREAK
11:00 – 11:10 AM EDT: OVERVIEW OF PANEL 4: FINDING IDENTITIES, FREEING VOICES
11:10 AM – 12:40 PM EDT: PANEL 4: FINDING IDENTITIES, FREEING VOICES
We start by framing a key concern: IP has sometimes been used/misused against creators, especially those who have historically been underrepresented and marginalized: to stifle their identities, turn their voices against themselves, or misdirect their expression to injurious ends. We turn to devising strategies and solutions to redress the problem: how can we maximize the returns and minimize the risks of IP to marginalized/underrepresented creators?
12:40 – 12:45 PM EDT: CLOSING REMARKS AND CONFERENCE CONCLUDES