Dr. Chijioke Okorie on “Copyright, Openness, and Inequities: Licensing African Datasets” (IP Osgoode Speaks)

This talk identifies inequities that arise from existing open licenses for sharing African datasets, including those that are founded on copyright law, and sets out the guiding principles for an alternative open data license for African datasets.

Dr. Chijioke Okorie is an Assistant Professor and the principal investigator and leader of Data Science Law Lab, a research group at the University of Pretoria that deploys research in law and produces evidence and policy advice to support the growth of data science research across Africa. Chijioke is an Africa correspondent at The IPKat blog, associate editor of South African Intellectual Property Law Journal, and the author of several articles on intellectual property and information justice issues in Africa.