Intellectual Property and Religious Thought
Minneapolis/St. Paul, United States of America
5th to 5th April 2013
The conference will bring together legal scholars, religious ethicists, religion scholars, and theologians for an interdisciplinary discussion of how religious themes, practices, and communities may inform and shape intellectual property law and policy. The topics to be covered including but not limited to:
- Creativity as a gift: its implication for particular areas in copyright, patent, or other IP laws
- Limits on patentability, of living things or natural processes, in the light of religious frameworks
- Particular moral obligations of IP rights-holders, under stewardship or other religious themes
- IP and human development in religious perspectives, under frameworks such as “the preferential option for the poor” or others
- Analyses of particular creative/innovation industries or practices under religious norms and frameworks
- The role of religious norms or communities in (a) encouraging compliance with IP rights or (b) challenging IP rights
- Religious communities’ treatment of their own IP-eligible material
Abstracts of proposed papers should be one page and should include the author’s name, affiliation, mailing
address, and e-mail address. The deadline for submission of proposals is December 3, 2012. Notification of acceptance will be made by December 13, 2012. and sent to:
Email: tcberg@stthomas.edu
Web site :http://www.stthomas.edu/murphyinstitute/callforpapers/
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