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Ending Childhood Book Hunger
Professor Lea Bishop is a dedicated scholar-advocate for promoting the human right to read. Her work encompasses both conceptual and pragmatic approaches to advancing this right. Conceptually, she has developed a comprehensive theory of the right to science and culture, which has gained recognition and adoption within the United Nations. By establishing the theoretical foundation, she has helped shape global discussions and policies surrounding the importance of access to knowledge and information.
Pragmatically, Professor Bishop has put forth a visionary proposal known as the "Ending Book Hunger by 2030" global plan. This ambitious initiative aims to eradicate the barriers that hinder individuals from accessing books and reading materials by the year 2030. By addressing issues such as unequal distribution, affordability, and accessibility, Professor Bishop's plan seeks to create a world where everyone has equal opportunities to satisfy their thirst for knowledge.
In addition to her conceptual and pragmatic endeavors, Professor Bishop has shown an innovative approach by exploring the impact of ChatGPT, an advanced language model, on the right to read. By investigating the potential benefits and challenges of AI technologies like ChatGPT in relation to literacy and access to information, she has shed light on the evolving landscape of reading rights and the transformative role of technology. Her research contributes to the ongoing conversation on how emerging technologies can be harnessed to empower individuals and expand access to educational resources globally.
Professor Bishop's work on increasing the global population's access to knowledge to create a more inclusive and literate world is another excellent example of how IUPUI's faculty members are TRANSLATING their RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE.
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Item Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development(Bloomsbury Academic, 2010) Shaver, LeaAccess to knowledge is a demand for democratic participation, for global inclusion and for economic justice. It is a reaction to the excessively restrictive international IP regime put in place over the last two decades, which seeks to reassert the public interest in a more balanced information policy. With sponsorship from the Ford Foundation, the Information Society Project at Yale Law School has embarked on a new series of access to knowledge research, in partnership with colleagues in Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Russia and South Africa. The first book in this series, Access to Knowledge in Brazil, focuses on current issues in intellectual property, innovation and development policy from a Brazilian perspective. Each chapter is authored by scholars from the Fundação Getulio Vargas law schools in São Paolo and Rio de Janeiro and examines a policy area that significantly impacts access to knowledge in the country. These include: exceptions and limitations to copyright, free software and open business models, patent reform and access to medicines, and open innovation in the biotechnology sector.Item Access to Knowledge in Egypt: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development(Bloomsbury Academic, 2010) Shaver, Lea; Rizk, NaglaThe conventional wisdom in Egypt examines the issue of intellectual property solely as a question of policing and enforcement. The high levels of protection indicated by the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights are unquestioningly assumed to be desirable. Policy debates - and all too often academic ones as well - focus only on the questions of how to more efficiently tighten IP protection and crack down on piracy. Yet a more critical examination is urgently needed, whereby IP law, policy, and practice are viewed from a development perspective, rather than from an enforcement perspective. This volume takes on this endeavor. It offers the first examination of IP issues in Egypt adopting a multidisciplinary bottom-up approach that aims at maximizing access and contribution to knowledge, and in turn, promoting development. Bringing rigorous empirical research to bear on unquestioned ideologies, the collaborating authors question the conventional wisdom that more IP protection is necessarily better for innovation and development.Item Access to Knowledge in India(2011) Shaver, LeaThis essay is a preview of the author's upcoming book Access to Knowledge in India: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Development, an edited volume which contains contributionsfrom various scholars on the access to knowledge alongside development and trade. While the essay seeks to bring together views and insights gleaned from various chapters of the book, the author simultaneously pushes forward her argument concerning the role that courts have to play in toning down excessive intellectual property protection using the language of human rights. In particula, the author argues that constitutional law has the poten tial tofurther socioeconomic rights which are affected by intellectual property protection. The author feels that Indian constitutional litigation has taken the right step in this direction and is a model for courts in other jurisdictions as well as for international norm-setting.Item Access to Knowledge in India: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development(Bloomsbury Academic, 2011) Subramanian, Ramesh; Shaver, LeaThis is the third volume in our Access to Knowledge series. India is a $1 trillion economy which nevertheless struggles with a very high poverty rate and very low access to knowledge for almost seventy percent of its population which lives in rural areas. This volume features four parts on current issues facing intellectual property, development policy (especially rural development policy) and associated innovation, from the Indian perspective. Each chapter is authored by scholars taking an interdisciplinary approach and affiliated to Indian or American universities and Indian think-tanks. Each examines a policy area that significantly impacts access to knowledge. These include information and communications technology for development; the Indian digital divide; networking rural areas; copyright and comparative business models in music; free and open source software; patent reform and access to medicines; the role of the Indian government in promoting access to knowledge internationally and domestically.Item Advancing Faculty Diversity Through Self-Directed Mentoring(2017) Dutton, Yvonne M.; Ryznar, Margaret; Shaver, LeaMentoring is widely acknowledged to be important in career success, yet may be lacking for female and minority law professors, contributing to disparities in retention and promotion of diverse faculty. This Article presents the results of a unique diversity mentoring program conducted at one law school. Mentoring is often thought of as something directed by the mentor on behalf of the protégé. Our framework inverts that model, empowering diverse faculty members to proactively cultivate their own networks of research mentors. The studied intervention consisted of modest programming on mentorship, along with supplemental travel funds to focus specifically on travel for the purpose of cultivating mentors beyond one’s own institution. Participants were responsible for setting their own mentorship goals, approaching mentors and arranging meetings, and reporting annually on their activities and progress. Both quantitative and qualitative evidence demonstrate that the program has been effective along its measurable goals in its first year. Participants report growing their networks of mentors, receiving significant advice on research and the tenure process, and being sponsored for new opportunities. The authors conclude that this type of mentoring initiative, if more broadly applied, could have a significant impact on reducing disparities in retention and promotion in the legal academy. To facilitate such replication, the Article describes both the process of designing the program and the actual operation of the program as carried out at one school. In sum, the Article offers a concrete starting point for discussions at any law school interested in advancing faculty diversity through improved mentoring.Item Brief of Amici Curiae 56 Professors of Law and Economics in Support of Petition of Writ of Certiorari, TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Brands Group LLC, No. 16341, (U.S. Oct. 17, 2016)(Counsel Press, 2016) Allison, John; Bagley, Margo; Bessen, James; Bock, Jeremy; Brean, Daniel; Carrier, Michael; Carroll, Michael; Chao, Bernard; Chiang, Tun-Jen; Chien, Colleen; Chin, Andrew; Cook-Deegan, Robert; Dreyfuss, Rochelle; Ernst, Dieter; Ernst, Samuel; Feldman, Robin; Fleming, Lee; Frye, Brian; Gallagher, William; Ghosh, Shubha; Goldman, Eric; Hall, Bronwyn; Heled, Yaniv; Helmers, Christian; Henkel, Joachim; Helper, Susan; Holbrook, Tim; Hovenkamp, Herbert; Hubbard, William; Jaravel, Xavier; Karjala, Dennis; Lee, Peter; Lemley, Mark; Levine, David; Lichtman, Doug; Liebesman, Yvette; Lobel, Orly; Love, Brian; Malone, Phil; Meurer, Michael; Miller, Shawn; Mitchell, Matthew; Montgomery, Susan; Pager, Sean; Rai, Arti; Rooksby, Jacob; Roig, Jorge; Sag, Matthew; Samuelson, Pamela; Rutschman, Ana; Shaver, Lea; Takenaka, Toshiko; Turner, John; Urban, Jennifer; Hippel, Eric28 U.S.C. § 1400(b) provides that a defendant in a patent case may be sued where the defendant is incorporated or has a regular and established place of business and has infringed the patent. This Court made clear in Fourco Glass Co. v. Transmirra Prods. Corp., 353 U.S. 222, 223 (1957), that those were the only permissible venues for a patent case. But the Federal Circuit has rejected Fourco and the plain meaning of § 1400(b), instead permitting a patent plaintiff to file suit against a defendant anywhere there is personal jurisdiction over that defendant. The result has been rampant forum shopping, particularly by patent trolls. 44% of 2015 patent lawsuits were filed in a single district: the Eastern District of Texas, a forum with plaintiff-friendly rules and practices, and where few of the defendants are incorporated or have established places of business. And an estimated 86% of 2015 patent cases were filed somewhere other than the jurisdictions specified in the statute. Colleen V. Chien & Michael Risch, Recalibrating Patent Venue, Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-1 (Sept. 1, 2016), Table 3. This Court should grant certiorari to review the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b) because the Federal Circuit’s dubious interpretation of the statute plays an outsized and detrimental role, both legally and economically, in the patent system.Item Can ChatGPT 'Think Like a Lawyer?' A Socratic Dialogue(2023-01-26) Bishop, LeaA witty socratic dialogue with a language-generation model, exploring the aims of legal education in the new era of machine writing.Item A Computer Wrote this Paper: What ChatGPT Means for Education, Research, and Writing(2023-01-26) Bishop, LeaOf particular interest to educators, an exploration of what new language-generation software does (and does not) do well. Argues that the new language-generation models make instruction in writing mechanics irrelevant, and that educators should shift to teaching only the more advanced writing skills that reflect and advance critical thinking. The difference between mechanical and advanced writing is illustrated through a "Socratic Dialogue" with ChatGPT. Appropriate for classroom discussion at High School, College, Professional, and PhD levels.Item Copyright and Inequality(2014-12) Shaver, LeaThe standard theory of copyright law imagines a marketplace efficiently serving up new works to an undifferentiated world of consumers. Yet the reality is that all consumers are not equal. Class and culture combine to explain who wins, and who loses, from copyright protection. Along the dimension of class, the inequality insight reminds us just because new works are created does not mean that most people can afford them, and calls for new attention to problems of affordability. Copyright protection inflates the price of books, with implications for distributive justice, democratic culture, and economic efficiency. Along the dimension of culture, the inequality insight points out that it is not enough for copyright theory to speak generally of new works; it matters crucially what languages those works are being created in. Copyright protection is likely to be an ineffective incentive system for the production of works in “neglected languages” spoken predominantly by poor people. This Article highlights and explores these relationships between copyright and social inequality, offering a new perspective on what is at stake in debates over copyright reform.Item Defining and Measuring A2K: A Blueprint for an Index of Access to Knowledge(I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, 2008) Shaver, LeaAccess to knowledge (A2K) is increasingly recognized as the central human development issue of our time. Yet to date there has been little literature defining precisely what is meant by this term, much less how to evaluate the progress toward achieving it. To help bridge this gap, this article offers a blueprint for an A2K index: a quantitative tool integrating a variety of data points to assess how well countries promote access to knowledge. The proposed index tracks five key dimensions of access to knowledge: education for informational literacy, access to the global knowledge commons, access to knowledge goods, an enabling legal framework, and effective innovation systems. The resulting conceptual map offers a concrete introduction to the A2K framework for information scholars and professionals.
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