Jennifer Jenkins

Director, Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School

Jennifer Jenkins is director of Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain, where she heads its "Arts Project" – a project analyzing the effects of intellectual property on cultural production – and teaches a seminar on Intellectual Property, the Public Domain and Free Speech. She is co-author of Bound By Law, a "graphic novel" about the effects of copyright on documentary film.

As a lawyer, Jenkins was a member of the team that defended the copyright infringement suit against the publisher of the novel "The Wind Done Gone" (a parodic rejoinder to Gone With the Wind). She has also dabbled in the arts, as co-author of Nuestra Hernandez, a fictional documentary addressing copyright and appropriation, and author of several short stories.