Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor a lecture on preliminary findings stemming from research on indigenous intellectual property rights by a visiting scholar from Norway.
In his talk, “The Fertile Environment for Legal Protections of Native Alaskan Handicraft Heritage,” Jacob Adams—a Ph.D. student in law who serves on the law faculty at the University of Tromsø—will discuss early findings from his field research, through which he examined alternative means to protect indigenous intellectual property using trademark law, with a focus on Northwest Coast culture and art.
For the last three months, Adams has been studying the at.óow, intangible property and arts and crafts traditions of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people as a visiting scholar at Sealaska Heritage.
In this second lecture by Adams, he will attempt to summarize his experiences and new knowledge, put it into the context of his research framework and articulate possible intellectual property solutions to the threats faced by Alaskan Native cultural heritage.
The lecture will be on Thursday, April 14 at noon at the Walter Soboleff Building.
To learn more about the first lecture, see “Scholar: Trademarks could protect Alaska
