Cybercriminology, Intellectual Property Rights, Culture and The New Millennium Crimes: Traditional African Restorative Justice Jurisprudence as a Guide

 Intellectual Property & Justice- Series!                                                                                                                                   ©️Samuel Samiai Andrews*                            

With the advent of Artificial Intelligence Systems with its assistive, predictive and generative outputs capabilities, the criminal infringement of intellectual property rights and its intersection with criminal justice, cybercrime and criminology have increased within the online spaces and offline. The significance, regulatory, and jurisprudential breadth of contemporary  socio economic and geopolitical infrastructures have been part of the heightened concerns and public policy discourse in recent academic and real life fora. This paper (article) continues these discussions with particular focus on examining and analyzing how IP’s criminal regimes have been implicated in the evolving unknowns of AI and the significant role IP jurisprudence can culture and mitigate “the parable of the horrible” associated with the AI protagonists and non-friendlies. This paper will further examine how criminological tools like victimology, restorative justice and retributive justice, particularly its indigenous genre from Sub-Saharan Africa, could offer a template to mitigate AI and IP crimes.

*     ©️Samuel Samiai Andrews

*Professor  Samuel Samiai Andrews is a U. S. Ambassador’s Distinguished Scholar, Professor of Intellectual Property Law & Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice & Cybercrime & Legal Environment of Business (Business Law). The publication of  the full paper on this theme is forthcoming.