Full Description
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.
Contributors: D.M. Conway, S. Ghosh, L.J. Gibbons, M. Gollin, R.S. Heimes, P. Lyfoung, A. McGeehan, C. McNulty, L. Mtima, L.E. Mulraine, J.R. Whitman, V. Rawlston Wilson, P.K. Yu
Contents
Contents:
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
PART I 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
PART II 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
PART III ENGAGEMENT AND ACTIVISM
9. Worth More Dead than Alive: Join the NoCopyright Party and Start Killing Copyrights for their Own Good
Ann McGeehan
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
PART IV COMMENCEMENT
12. From Swords to Ploughshares: Towards a Unified Theory of Intellectual Property Social Justice
Lateef Mtima
Index
