Decolonising Intellectual Property Law

This book advocates for an Afrocentric approach to intellectual property (IP) law, using lessons from Nigeria's past to encourage reform for the future of Africa's legal IP landscape.

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Jade 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, the 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.

Nkem Itanyi is an accomplished, experienced academic. She is a law lecturer and researcher specialising in intellectual property law. With over twenty years of research and teaching across two continents, she has an impressive record of scholarly achievement. As a TETFund scholar, she earned a doctorate from the prestigious School of Law at Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom, an LLM in Corporate and Commercial Law from University College London, and an LLB (Hons) from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Nkem's research activity is robust; she has an extensive publication record in law and has been cited in leading peer-reviewed academic journals indexed in Clarivate Web of Science, Scopus, and other databases. She has published one of the "most read" articles in the Journal of World Intellectual Property and received a certificate for it. Nkem is an invited and celebrated speaker at conferences who has been asked to share her research globally, including as a guest speaker at Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Boston, United States of America, and as a Guest Lecturer at the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom.

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List of Contributors

Foreword by Professor Graham Dutfield

Introduction: Rewriting the History of Intellectual Property Law in Africa - A Decolonisation Perspective

Nkem Itanyi

Chapter 1 - Decolonising Copyright Theory: Justifying Copyright Ownership Through the Prism of the United Nations Developmental Agenda

Jade Kouletakis

Chapter 2 - From Moonlight Tales to Town Halls to Cinemas: Customary Copyright Practices and Performances that Led to Nollywood in Nigeria

Nkem Itanyi

Chapter 3 - Traditional Peoples in Africa and Intellectual Property Rights: Losing The Status of Their Jurisprudence and Knowledge Systems

Ayoyemi Lawal-Arowolo

Chapter 4 - Technology, Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Nigerian Development by

Ike Chime

Chapter 5 - Apprenticeship System (Igba Boyi) of Preserving Indigenous Knowledge in Igbo Land, Southast Nigeria and Technology Transfer in Patent Law: A Necessary Linkage

Nneka Chioma Ezedum

Chapter 6 - An overview of the Patenting Scheme: The Nigerian Story

Regina Obiechine

Chapter 7 - Decolonisation of Methods of Medicine Production and Patents in Nigeria: The Dilemma of Colonial Mentality on Traditional Medicine

Ayoyemi Lawal-Arowolo and Adesoji Adebayo

Chapter 8 - A Comparative Study of African and Western Mediation Cultures with a Focus on the Music Industry

Seun Lari-Williams

Conclusion: From Passive to Active Voice, or The Start of a Conversation with Africa

Jade Kouletakis