Caribbean Law

  Inniss Institute Launches to Deliver High‑Level Digital Governance and IP Advisory Services Across the Global South The new Caribbean‑led institute supports governments, cultural institutions, and development agencies with policy design, capacity‑building, and frameworks for cultural and data asset protection. Brooklyn, NY — A new Caribbean‑led institution with a Global South mandate has officially launched. The Inniss Institute for Digital Policy and Intellectual Property will provide specialized advisory, training, and policy design services to governments, public institutions, and development partners across the Caribbean, Africa, Latin America, the Pacific, and other emerging regions. Founded by Dr. Abiola Inniss , a leading scholar of Caribbean law, digital sovereignty, and intellectual property, the Institute responds to urgent concerns shared across the Global South: artificial intelligence systems built on unprotected cultural data, rapid digital transformation w...

   Some notes on monetizing Intellectual Property Rights in Caricom countries.   By Abiola Inniss                    As the leading researcher, analyst and writer for a decade and a half in the still emerging field of Caribbean Intellectual Property law and policy, my work has catalogued the laws and policies related to intellectual property rights within the Caricom states and their relation to international IP regimes such as the WTO’s TRIPS agreement (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights). I have investigated the anomalies which exist in the relevancy and modernity of the laws, as well as their implementation and adherence within the countries. I have also examined government policies on intellectual property rights (IPRs) to determine whether those policies actually promote the use of IPRs and help to boost local innovation and technology.  This scholarship resulted in the conduct of a...

  Global Divergence in AI Copyright Liability: A Comparative Analysis of Fair Use, Text and Data Mining, and Fair Dealing in the US, EU, and Caribbean (2025),   By. Dr. Abiola Inniss Ph.D. LLM, ACIarb   Abstract This article analyzes the diverging legal frameworks governing AI training and copyright in the United States, European Union, and Caribbean as of late 2025. In the United States , the judiciary has established a "conditional fair use" doctrine ( Bartz v. Anthropic , Kadrey v. Meta ), where training is transformative but liability arises from illicit data sources ("shadow libraries") or market substitution. The European Union enforces a statutory compliance regime under the AI Act, permitting text and data mining (TDM) only where rights holders have not exercised machine-readable opt-outs (e.g., C2PA). In the Caribbean , notably Barbados, legislative reforms prioritize creator sovereignty, rejecting broad TDM exceptions in favor of collective lice...