Intellectual Property, Entrepreneurship and Social Justice

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, US-While many have articulated needs of particular communities which they argue intellectual property should be shaped to serve, few have attempted to flesh out a theory under which intellectual property doctrine should be built from the ground up to promote social justice. Lateef Mtima, a pioneer in that endeavor, has now edited a collection of essays that provides crucial additional perspectives - perspectives that appropriately focus on empowerment and entrepreneurship. These essays are essential reading for everyone who has ever wondered whether and how intellectual property should respond to an unequal world.'--Robert Brauneis, The George Washington University, US

• Contents:Prologue: A Social Activist’s Guide to Intellectual PropertyLateef Mtima1. An Introduction to Intellectual Property Social Justice and Entrepreneurship: Civil Rights and Economic Empowerment for the 21st CenturyLateef MtimaPART I ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT2. An Entrepreneurship Approach to Achieving IP Social JusticeJohn R. Whitman3. Intellectual Property as an Essential 21st Century Business Asset Valerie Rawlston Wilson4. The Colorblind Marketplace?Shubha Ghosh5. Public Procurement’s Role in Facilitating Social Justice, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation in the Global Knowledge EconomyDanielle M. ConwayPART II EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY6. Lawyers and Innovation Rita S. Heimes7. Intellectual Property Training and Education for Social JusticePeter K. Yu8. Intellectual Property Social Justice in Action: Public Interest Intellectual Property AdvisorsMichael Gollin, Pacyinz Lyfoung, Lateef Mtima and Connor McNultyPART III ENGAGEMENT AND ACTIVISM9. Worth More Dead than Alive: Join the NoCopyright Party and Start Killing Copyrights for their Own GoodAnn McGeehan10. I Am My Brother’s Keeper: How the Crossroads of Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property, and Entertainment Can Be Used to Affect Social JusticeLoren E. Mulraine11. Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative: Intellectual Property Social Justice and Best Practices for Entrepreneurial Economic DevelopmentLlewellyn Joseph GibbonsPART IV COMMENCEMENT12. From Swords to Ploughshares: Towards a Unified Theory of Intellectual Property Social JusticeLateef MtimaIndex