We are pleased to announce a joint Warwick Law School/International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property
Online seminar as part of Prof Kathy Bowrey’s (UNSW Sydney) visit to Warwick Law School.
How to attend
Date & Time: 30 June 2025, 1 – 2pm (London)
Please register your attendance on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/warwick-law-schoolishtip-joint-online-seminar-prof-kathy-bowrey-unsw-tickets-1419338743389?aff=oddtdtcreator
A zoom link will be sent to you upon registration on 27th June and on the morning of 30 June.
Abstract
Open Science’s progressive potential. A critical IP perspective
Open Science operates as a philosophy and an ethos, defined by a set of practices and policy directives that privilege open scientific collaboration and sharing of information for the benefits of society. It is envisaged as a counterforce to the closed scholarly communication systems that generate huge profits for multinational publishers. Open Science is also positioned as pro-innovation because it can make publicly funded research and data resources more accessible to industry, encourage public-private partnerships and more controversially, support IP commercialisation.
The inherent right of the author and inventor to own the fruits of their labour and control the terms of access to research remains foundational to Open Science, encapsulated in the concept, “As open as possible, as closed as necessary”. This seminar explores the effects of technoscientific capitalism and the datafication of research on the concepts of author and inventor. Can the historic valorisation of the author and inventor survive the machine logics mobilised through Open Science and enhanced by AI, as we change the way we commodify knowledge relations in the global pursuit of innovation?
Speaker bio
Kathy Bowrey is a Professor in the School of Law, Society and Criminology, Faculty of Law & Justice, University of New South Wales, Australia. Recent publications include: Bowrey K; Cochrane T; Hadley M; McKeough J; Pappalardo K; Watson I; Weatherall K, ‘“Just tick the box”. Academic understanding of intellectual property and open access research policies in publication practices at Australian universities’, Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (Accepted 12 June 2025); Bowrey K; Cochrane T; Hadley M; McKeough J; Pappalardo K; Weatherall K, 2024, ‘Managing Ownership of Copyright in Research Publications to Increase the Public Benefits from Research’, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0067205X231213676; Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value: Incorporating the Author (Routledge, 2020).
