Int Society for the History & Theory of Intellectual Property

📣 Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual ISHTIP Workshop is out now 📣 Theme: Intellectual Property and Democracy When: 25-26 June 2026 Where: Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil Abstract & CV deadline: 22 December 2025 More details: ishtip.org/forthcoming-...

Our first online seminar for this academic year will start in about four hours 🙌 Everyone welcome.

Thank you to all authors, commentators, audience who made the 2026 annual workshop a wonderful exchange of experience, ideas, and arguments. Muito obrigado to Univ of São Paulo law school, colleagues in other departments, and esp Vitor Ido and his team of fantastic students for making it happen 🙏

Wonderfully stimulating day 1 of our annual workshop hosted by Vitor Ido of Uni of São Paulo ✨💫

Two weeks to go until our Annual Workshop. Please register below if you can join us in person 🙌 or also for auditing the sessions online 💫

"This workshop aims to take stock of the relationship between intellectual property and democracy – both in its norms, rhetoric, and effect – by bringing together interdisciplinary scholarship which explores this relationship historically and theoretically" - @ishtip.bsky.social

Please join us for the last ISTHIP online seminar series of this academic year 💫 Séverine Dusollier and Nicolas Malevé will talk about "The Legal Aesthetics of Copyright, How AI Unmakes Images" 🗓️ Monday 18 May 2026 🕰️ 4.00pm (Paris – CEST) Everyone is welcome. Registration & info:

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Please join us for the next event in the ISHTIP Online seminar series! Paula Westenberger (Brunel University, UK) will give a talk on the use of AI in digital heritage and issues of copyright. Date: Tuesday 3 March 2026 Time: 2.00pm (London – GMT) Free, and sign up for a zoom link below:

We are pleased to invite you to the next online ISHTIP seminar Jose Bellido (Kent) will talk about the entanglement of IP law, colonialism and institutional relations between BIRPI, WIPO, and UNESCO in late twentieth century. 🗓️ Monday, 9 February, 2pm (UK) 📣 Free & everyone is welcome Sign up ⬇️

Thank you very much to all colleagues who have submitted a proposal for their papers to be discussed at this year's workshop in Sao Paulo in June. We hope to get back to you as soon as we can.

Happy new year. A reminder that the deadline for paper proposal for the annual workshop 2026 in Sao Paolo is this Friday 🕰️ This year's theme is "Intellectual Property and Democracy". We hope you can join us!

Happy new year. A reminder that the deadline for paper proposal for the annual workshop 2026 in Sao Paolo is this Friday 🕰️ This year's theme is "Intellectual Property and Democracy". We hope you can join us!

Please join us for the next online ISHTIP seminar: Gerardo Con Diaz (STS, UC Davis) will be speaking 'On Judgment: A Critical Grammar for Computing and Law'. Monday, 8 December 6am LA (PST) More info and registration link: ishtip.org/on-judgement... Everyone welcome.

SAVE THE DATE 📣 International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) 17th Annual Workshop Intellectual Property and Democracy 25 & 26 June 2026 hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Call for papers will be circulated soon.

Please join us for the next seminar in our online seminar series: Making and Marketing Biocultural Heritage in Agriculture: From the Andean Community to Asia with Rosemary Coombe and David Jefferson Nov 17, 2025 07:00 PM (London). Local time zones are displayed when you register below:

📣 SAVE THE DATE 📣 International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) 17th Annual Workshop Intellectual Property and Democracy 25 & 26 June 2026, hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Call for papers will be circulated in November.

Thanks to everyone across the globe who got up early, stayed up late, and shared their time and thoughts in today's seminar. Next one in the seminar series will be in about a month's time, please join us for:

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The first in the seminar series is coming up next week. You can register for a zoom link here👇 We look forward to seeing many of you online!

We are very pleased to announce the 2025/6 ISHTIP Online Seminar Series, which brings together scholars from around the world who explore intellectual property issues from theoretical and historical angles. Please find below the programme, dates for your diary, registration links ⬇️