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In the Information Age, historically marginalized groups and developing nations continue to strive for socio-economic empowerment within the global community. Their ultimate success largely depends upon their ability to develop, protect, and exploit their greatest natural resource: intellectual property.
Through an exploration of the techniques used in social entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property, Entrepreneurship and Social Justice provides a framework by which historically marginalized communities and developing nations can cooperate with the developed world to establish a socially cohesive global intellectual property order. The knowledgeable contributors discuss, in four parts, topics surrounding entrepreneurship and empowerment, education and advocacy, engagement and activism and, finally, commencement.
Experts in the field, scholars, law professors and students of intellectual property, human rights and international trade and development will find this book to be both thought-provoking and a valuable resource.
Prologue: A Social Activist’s Guide to Intellectual Property
Lateef Mtima
1. An Introduction to Intellectual Property Social Justice and Entrepreneurship: Civil Rights and Economic Empowerment for the 21st Century
Lateef Mtima
Entrepreneurship and Empowerment
2. An Entrepreneurship Approach to Achieving IP Social Justice
John R. Whitman
3. Intellectual Property as an Essential 21st Century Business Asset
Valerie Rawlston Wilson
4. The Colorblind Marketplace?
Shubha Ghosh
5. Public Procurement’s Role in Facilitating Social Justice, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation in the Global Knowledge Economy
Danielle M. Conway
Education and Advocacy
6. Lawyers and Innovation
Rita S. Heimes
7. Intellectual Property Training and Education for Social Justice
Peter K. Yu
8. Intellectual Property Social Justice in Action: Public Interest Intellectual Property Advisors
Michael Gollin, Pacyinz Lyfoung, Lateef Mtima and Connor McNulty
Engagement and Activism
9. A Call to Action: Join the NoCopyright Party and Take Back the Public Domain By Any Means Necessary
Ann McGeehan and the NoCopyright Party
10. I Am My Brother’s Keeper: How the Crossroads of Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property, and Entertainment Can Be Used to Affect Social Justice
Loren E. Mulraine
11. Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative: Intellectual Property Social Justice and Best Practices for Entrepreneurial Economic Development
Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons
Commencement
12. From Swords to Ploughshares: Towards a Unified Theory of Intellectual Property Social Justice
Lateef Mtima
Index
Edited by Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law, US
‘Professor Lateef Mtima and his stellar list of contributors are onto something genuinely new in this important volume; the idea that the “public interest” goals of the IP system extend beyond encouraging innovation, to take in a wide range of other social justice interests: promoting economic participation by excluded groups, helping to assure distributional fairness, and enabling significant gestures of cultural preservation. The range of specific topics covered is impressive, and their presentation is at once rigorous and accessible to non-specialist readers. This transformational collection is an essential item for any contemporary IP bookshelf.’
– Peter Jaszi, American University Law School
