Africa… Taking Customary Law Seriously (Part III): The Story of Oko Mmapule Tadesse 1 Nov 20241 Nov 2024 One of the things that I have found really useful as a scholar AND as a teacher is the power of story and narrative. For my current project, I wrote…
Africa… Taking Customary Law Seriously(Part II): Better than a sui generis system? 24 Oct 202422 Oct 2024 In this piece I am working on I make a proposal for how to implement the recognition of customary law as a means of providing protection for Traditional Knowledge[1] (TK)…
Traditional Cultural Expressions… Taking Customary Law Seriously: Domestic Recognition of Traditional Knowledge (Part I) 16 Oct 2024 I’m really excited about this paper that I am working on I’ll be presenting a draft of this paper at IP Mosaic on November 1st and 2nd at Marquette University. …
Copyright… Video recording of GWU IP Speaker Series, February 22, 2022 24 Feb 202221 Apr 2022 On February 22, 2022 I visited GWU Law School to present on my article “Do We Need Exit Rules for Traditional Knowledge? Lessons from Solomon Linda, and the Mbube/‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’…
Copyright… New Forthcoming Article on Solomon Linda and “Mbube/The Lion Sleeps Tonight” 1 Feb 2022 I've got an article coming out later this year on titled: “Do we need Exit rules for Traditional Knowledge? Lessons from Solomon Linda, and the Mbube/‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ case”…
Access to Medicines… Interview on my Scholarship with Dean Andrew Strauss 29 Jan 2022 Dean Andrew Strauss interviewed me for his podcast On the Witness Stand, about my scholarship on IP and traditional knowledge and IP and climate change and how I ended up…
Africa… Solomon Linda, Cultural Pirate? – The Origin Myth of Mbube 5 Aug 2019 Much of the discussion around the Mbube case, in order to make a strong case of misappropriation both emphasized the original contribution made by Solomon Linda and the unique circumstances…
Africa… Solomon Linda, Cultural Pirate? 1 Aug 2019 The Settlement of the Mbube or “Wimoweh” case in South Africa of the claims by Solomon Linda’s family to copyright over the song used on the Lion King Soundtrack cut…
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