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The IPAT Clinic is participating in the #scholarstrike for racial justice! Some IP and Tech related readings on raceial justice are below. THREAD 
1/ https://twitter.com/katie_eyer/status/1303301959122907136
1/ https://twitter.com/katie_eyer/status/1303301959122907136
In "Algorithmic Jim Crow," Margaret Hu show how AI-based immigration and security vetting protocols can enable discrimination by designing, interpreting, and acting upon vetting and screening systems in ways that result in a disparate impact. 2/
https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=5445&context=flr
https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=5445&context=flr
The brilliant @jovialjoy on fighting bias in algorithms. (PS follow @ajlunited and see @shalinikantayya's #CodedBias when it comes out!)
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In "IP at the Intersection of Race & Gender: Lady Sings the Blues," KJ Greene examines IP's impact on Black women blues singers, exposing IP's racial and gendered nature & its centrality to racial subordination both economically & culturally. 4/ https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/pijip/events/kevin-j-greene/?_ga=2.141196081.225598671.1599571226-1745375069.1599571226
Professor Greene will also be speaking at @WCL_PIJIP THIS FRIDAY at 12 ET about his next project, examining how old school hip hop artists can use copyright's little known rights reversion & termination processes to claw back their rights. A must-see! 5/ https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/pijip/events/kevin-j-greene/?_ga=2.141196081.225598671.1599571226-1745375069.1599571226
In "Writing Rights: Copyright’s Visual Bias and African American Music," Funmi Arewa shows that copyright has consistently undervalued performance while favoring written expression of music, and that had a profound impact on AA-based musical forms. 6/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2010024
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2010024
In "Race & Selective Memory: Reflections on 'Invention of a Slave,'" @KaraWSwanson illuminates generations of African American activists who kept alive the story of an infamous 1858 case about an enslaved blacksmith who invented an innovative plow. 7/
https://columbialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Swanson-Race_and_Selective_Legal_Memory.pdf
https://columbialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Swanson-Race_and_Selective_Legal_Memory.pdf
In "Critical Race IP," Anjali Vats @raceip and Deidre Keller establish a theoretical framework for an interdisciplinary movement that studies the racial investments and implications of IP and related laws. 8/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3050898
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3050898
"Intellectual Property, Entrepreneurship and Social Justice: From Swords to Ploughshares," edited by Lateef Mtima, is an important collection on this subject as well. (PS Follow @IPSocialJustice, which Prof. Mtima directs!) 9/
https://www.worldcat.org/title/intellectual-property-entrepreneurship-and-social-justice-from-swords-to-ploughshares/oclc/902659952
https://www.worldcat.org/title/intellectual-property-entrepreneurship-and-social-justice-from-swords-to-ploughshares/oclc/902659952
Finally, the annual Race + IP conference by Lateef Mtima, Jane Anderson, & Minh-Ha Pham @minh81 is an invaluable resource and space for exploring the intersection between race, IP, & tech. 10/10
https://raceipconference.org/
https://raceipconference.org/
There’s more! @221Betsy’s “Copyright’s One-Way Racial Appropriation Ratchet” explores implicit racial hierarchies inherent in copyright law as statutes & courts ñ distinguish b/w “original” & “derivative” in ways that reflect & amplify racial bias.
https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/53/2/articles/53-2_rosenblatt.html
https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/53/2/articles/53-2_rosenblatt.html
And Jasmine Abdel-Khalik’s “Scènes à Faire As Identity Trait Stereotyping” shows how the scène à faire doctrine in copyright grants judicial approval to stereotyping by associating stock characters with ethnic and racial identity traits.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3344757
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3344757
Prof. Abdel-Khalik also wrote “Disparaging Trademarks: Who Matters,” which examines the history of the disparaging trademark doctrine and aims to refocus it on the goal of protecting non-majority voices from the numerous harms caused by stereotyping.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2670082
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2670082
