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Vats, 20—Assistant Professor of Communication and African and African Diaspora Studies and Assistant Professor of Law at Boston College (Anjali, “Rescripting Creatorship, Rescripting Citizenship,” The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans, Chapter 4, pp. 157-158, dml)

These examples also set the stage for thinking about how lawyers and activists who are invested in anti-racist and anti-colonial struggles might orient themselves toward intellectual property law. Thinking about and remaking legislation, legal doctrine, and precedent are certainly important. But so too is performative resistance within the confines of existing practice. Being conscious of the racial histories of intellectual property law and committing to progressive racial ethics can drive considerable change in the direction of equity while law is being reimagined.

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