Jun 2, 2022
Today on ABCDEI we talk about intellectual property and how to honour it, as we build in public about some of our plans for the future for the body of work we’ve build through this podcast.
But first a story you’ll find a story that was first told to us by Andrea Henry of henrybrookslaw.com
Here are some snippets 👇 You’ll have to listen to the full story on the episode.
“‘Black Girl Magic’ (the
phrase) is a piece of intellectual property. But intellectual
property cannot be claimed and owned by you, unless you have
monetized it. So if the person who coined the phrase had even
printed one t-shirt, and sold it for $10 to a friend, that would
have made the phrase claimable as we understand it. But instead,
the trademark or the ownership of that phrase belongs to someone
who is not the creator. Why is a crying shame.”
-Susan Diaz
"I think we've both
acknowledged where we've been part of the solution, as well as
where we have been the receiving end of discrimination. The
intersection of our identities, but also the intersection of our
professional experience, and then our lived experience,
specifically within microaggression biases, has certainly given us
grounds to have something very real that we want to protect (in
ABCDEI).”
-Rohini Mukherji