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Some notes on monetizing Intellectual Property Rights in Caricom countries.

   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...
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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),

  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...
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