Keith Aoki Explained

Nationality:	America
Alma Mater:	UC Davis School of Law and University of Oregon School of Law
Occupation:	Law professor and author
Notable Works:	Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain
Style:	Comic book

Keith Aoki (1955 – April 26, 2011) was an American law professor who served on the faculty of University of California, Davis School of Law and the University of Oregon School of Law. He co-authored the nonfiction graphic novels Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain, which explains copyright law and the doctrine of fair use, and he was a co-author of ,^[1] both in collaboration with the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at the Duke University School of Law. His scholarship covered topics such as intellectual property, racial equality, and immigration reform. His work was covered in memorial tributes in the law reviews where he had taught^{[2] [3]} and by other colleagues.^[4]

Education and law career

Aoki studied art at Wayne State University and Hunter College.^[5] Changing fields to law he studied at Harvard Law School and the University of Wisconsin Law School.^[5]

Aoki may have been responsible for coining the word "paracopyright"^[6] in a 1997 letter of concern about the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty.

He wrote extensively about racial issues and immigration. In his personal life, Aoki's father was affected by the Japanese American internment: during World War II, his "father was interned at the Gila River camp in Arizona" during World War II.^[7]

Art

Aoki's art has been shown in retrospectives about Detroit and its artists such as the "Another Look at Detroit" exhibit shown in Chelsea, New York City^{[8] [9] [10]} and the "Subverting Modernism: Cass Corridor Revisited 1966-1980"^[11]

Wayne State University where he was a student holds some of his work,^{[12] [13] [14] [15]} which has been showcased in "Up from the streets: Detroit art from the Duffy warehouse collection"^[16]

Prominent works

• Seed Wars: Controversies And Cases On Plant Genetic Resources And Intellectual Property, by Keith Aoki. NC: Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2008. 280pp. ^[17]
• Race, Space, and Place
• (In)visible Cities: Three Local Government Models and Immigration Regulation (co-authored, 2008)
• Is Chan Still Missing? An Essay About the Film Snow Falling on Cedars and Representations of Asian Americans in U.S. Films (2001)

Bibliography

• Loss of a Legend by David Pluviose, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, June 9, 2011.

External links

• Bound by Law, a comic book about the public domain, drawn by Aoki
• Theft: A History of Music, Musical Borrowing from Plato to Hip Hop, a comic book about music and intellectual property, drawn by Aoki
• UC Davis Law Professor Creates Cartoons to Teach Copyright Law by Lydia Lum, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, April 15, 2011; Captain Copyright, March 31, 2011 (cover story)
• Aoki's works on SSRN

Notes and References

1. Web site: Theft: A History of Music . The Public Domain . February 14, 2017 . June 3, 2022.
2. UC Davis Law Review, Volume 45, Number 5, June 2012: Super Aoki - A tribute to Keith Aoki
3. Oregon Law Review, Volume 90, Number 5, 2012: Symposium (Un)Bound by Law: Keith Aoki Memorial Symposium
4. Hing, Bill Ong. "Superman Had Nothing on Keith Aoki." UCLA Asian Pac. Am. LJ 17 (2011): 148.
5. Web site: UC Davis School of Law - Faculty & Administration - aoki - Keith Aoki . Law.ucdavis.edu . 2011-04-26 . 2016-09-11.
6. Web site: paracopyright . Word Spy . 2016-09-11.
7. In Spirit of Healing, Residents Remember Wartime Camps by Greg Bolt, The Register Guard (Eugene, OR). February 19, 2002.
8. Web site: ART COLLECTION NEWSLETTER . 2015 . Artcollection.wayne.edu . 2016-09-11.
9. Web site: Another Look at Detroit . Marlborough Chelsea . 2016-09-11.
10. Web site: Another Look at Detroit: Parts 1 and 2, curated by Todd Levin and in collaboration with Marlborough Chelsea - Exhibitions - Marianne Boesky . 2015-01-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150113225825/http://www.marianneboeskygallery.com/exhibitions/another-look-at-detroit-parts-1-and-2-curated-by-todd-levin-and-in-collaboration-with-marlborough-chelsea/pressRelease . 2015-01-13 .
11. Web site: EMU's 'Subverting Modernism' exhibit offers fascinating look at Cass Corridor art . Annarbor.com . 2013-04-03 . 2016-09-11.
12. Web site: Picture of the Week - University Art Collection - Wayne State University . Artcollection.wayne.edu . 2016-09-11.
13. Web site: Picture of the Week - University Art Collection - Wayne State University . Artcollection.wayne.edu . 2016-09-11.
14. Web site: Picture of the Week - University Art Collection - Wayne State University. System. WCS Content Management. artcollection.wayne.edu. 2017-03-11.
15. Web site: Time and Place : Art of Detroit's Cass Corridor from the Wayne State University Collection . Artcollection.wayne.edu . 2016-09-11.
16. "Up from the streets: Detroit art from the Duffy warehouse collection" Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, 2001, page 59
17. Web site: Seed Wars . 2011-05-04 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110502145913/http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/aoki0708.htm . 2011-05-02 .