Intellectual Property

A Harvard Law conference and project focuses on Indigenous traditional knowledge and modern justice.

A new initiative by metaLAB (at) Harvard teaches educators how to integrate AI into their pedagogy.

Harvard Law School Professor Ruth Okediji says that while the Biden administration’s proposal to use federal ‘march-in’ rights to lower drug costs is an important development, it may be more a signal than the initiation of a workable plan.

Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law Ruth L. Okediji LL.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’96 has received a 2023 Barry Prize from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters in recognition of her intellectual excellence and courage.

During Harvard Law's Rappaport Forum on Oct. 30, two intellectual property scholars went deep into the implications of generative AI.

Rebecca Tushnet spoke with Harvard Law Today about how Disney has influenced copyright law in the U.S. and how creators can use works now in the public domain.

In a conversation with the Harvard Gazette, Rebecca Tushnet talks about the Authors Guild's case against OpenAI and some of the broader legal issues around emerging tech.

Ruth L. Okediji, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has been named Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies (CAS).

A Harvard Law expert explains why AI-generated art doesn’t qualify for copyright protection — but how it nonetheless will ‘materially affect’ the music industry.

Harvard Law’s Louis Tompros explains the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by heirs of Gaye’s cowriter involving Sheeran’s song “Thinking Out Loud”

Harvard Law’s Rebecca Tushnet, a First Amendment and intellectual property expert, explains an amusing — and potentially consequential — trademark case before the Supreme Court.

Rebecca Tushnet explains the purpose of fair use in copyright law and how a Supreme Court decision could alter the arts in America.

Harvard Law Professor Rebecca Tushnet discusses the copyright infringement lawsuit against 'Top Gun: Maverick.'

In a Harvard Law School reading group, entrepreneurs and legal operation specialists are sharing a road map for using technology to change the legal profession.

Harvard Law Today recently spoke to Professors Terry Fisher and Ruth Okediji about COVID-19 vaccine challenges in the global south, waiving drug-maker patents, and what they propose to reform the system in time for the next pandemic.

Described as one of the great figures in the history of Harvard Law School, Lloyd L. Weinreb ’62, a leading authority on criminal and copyright law, and an HLS professor for nearly a half-century, died Dec. 15, at the age of 85.

Social media’s business model of personalized virality is incompatible with democracy, agreed experts at a recent Harvard Law School discussion on the state of democracy.

With the start of the academic year, a look at nine faculty who have joined Harvard Law School, been promoted, or taken on new roles in 2021.