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1 - Mapping the Intellectual Property/Social Justice Frontier

from Part I - IP Social Justice Foundations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2024

Steven D. Jamar
Affiliation:
Howard University (Washington DC) School of Law
Lateef Mtima
Affiliation:
Howard University (Washington DC) School of Law
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For a growing portion of our society, and especially younger generations, life increasingly revolves around intellectual creativity, entrepreneurship, and the digital domain. General Motors and other manufacturing companies are no longer the largest and most significant economic enterprises. Digital Age startups, such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix, provide the social and commerce platforms of daily life. They dominate the business news. Tesla is revitalizing the American automobile industry and revolutionizing automobile transportation. The balance sheets of these companies are not based on tangible resources but rather intangibles – intellectual property rights, information, and human capital. As President Obama emphasized in his final State of the Union Address,1 technological innovation provides the greatest hope for addressing the most pressing human challenges – climate change, public health, food and fresh water supply, and world peace. Social interaction occurs more and more in cyberspace, a seemingly infinite, borderless “place.” And a growing proportion of the most salient “property” rights issues that concern netizens and the U.S. judiciary relate to information resources and digital technology.

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Print publication year: 2024

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