Our Minds Were Always Free
A History of How Black Brilliance Was Exploited—and the Fight to Retake Control
$31.45
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2027
Summary
An exploration of how African American innovators and artists—whose impact and financial value in American music, movies, and TV is disproportionately greater than their numbers—have fought for and often won the rights to own and benefit from their own work.
When we think about the things that have barred success for African Americans, intellectual property law is hardly the first thing that comes to mind, if we even think of it all. We certainly don’t think of it as …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781982176006 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1982176008 |
| Author: | Lisa E. Davis |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2027 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 140mm x 213mm |
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Lisa E. Davis
Lisa E. Davis is one of the foremost entertainment attorneys in the country. She is chair of the Entertainment Group of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, representing celebrities in the film, television, publishing, music, theater, and sports industries.
Davis has been ranked as a New York area “Super Lawyer” since 2007 and featured on the cover of Super Lawyers magazine about her career and advocacy for racial justice. She is recognized in Who’s Who Legal 2024, by Best Lawyers in America 2023–2025, Crain’s New York Business’s 2023 Notable Women in Law, The Hollywood Reporter’s Power Lawyers 2025, 2024, 2023, 2021, and 2020 lists of New York’s Top 20 Entertainment Attorneys, Variety’s Legal Impact Report, and more. Davis has also been quoted in Elle magazine, The New York Times, and Black Enterprise magazine.
A graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law, she clerked for the Honorable Constance Baker Motley in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. A frequent speaker and panelist at conferences, she is a member of the New York City Bar and the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association.
Davis also writes a political blog, Journal of the Plague Years. She practices law in New York and lives in New Jersey with her family.
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