Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

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.

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.

PIJIP’s Senior Research Analyst Andres Izquierdo was invited to an informative session on artificial intelligence (AI) at Colombia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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

PIJIP’s Senior Research Analyst Andrés Izquierdo, in collaboration with Beatriz Busaniche and Luca Shiru, conducted a training session on the right to research, text and data mining, and artificial intelligence at the Copyright Office of Panama.

The Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights will be holding its annual meetings and symposium from June 10-15 at American University Washington College of Law.