black inventors Image: eachoneteachone.org.uk Shontavia Johnson, a lawyer and professor of Intellectual Property Law at Drake University, wrote an eye-opening piece on the history of African American slaves being denied (or having outright stolen), patents for their inventions. Johnson writes, “One group of prolific innovators, however, has been largely ignored by history: black inventors born or forced into Am Read more
Characters, whether described merely in writing in the text of a work or depicted in graphics, can be of enormous economic value, often far in excess of the value of that text. Characters can form the basis for motion pictures, television productions, video games, web sites, merchandising rights and other such forms of exploitation that can make the income received from the ownership of rights in characters dwarf the Read more
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