Jade Kouletakis
Saturday 19th July
14:15 - 14:45
GMT +1
Decolonising Copyright Theory Through a Developmental Approach to Exclusive Ownership: An Indigenous African Dance Case Study
Biography / Biografía
Dr Kouletakis is an award-winning academic with experience teaching IP Law in multiple higher education institutions across two continents since 2014. She has been an invited keynote speaker at the University of Cambridge; University of St Andrews; and the Scottish Law and Innovation Network. She has published one of the ‘most read’ articles and the second ‘most read’ article on the websites of the Journal of World Intellectual Property (for whom she peer-reviews) and GRUR International: Journal of European and International IP Law. For REF 2021, she produced a maximum number of REF-qualifying outputs and submitted an Impact Case Study.
Abstract / Resumen
Kouletakis created a developmental theory for justifying exclusive copyright ownership which sees the onus being placed on the owner to evidence how exclusivity contributes toward the UN Development Agenda 2030 and UN Sustainable Development Goals. Here, the theory is practicably applied to the example of indigenous African dance. It will unpack the religious, spiritual, and socio-cultural significance of indigenous African dance as traditional knowledge with a view to gauging when copyright might be considered a suitable means for protecting such expressions. It will then consider how the developmental theory may address the challenges faced in international IP law with affording it such copyright protection.