IP Provocations asks challenging and sometimes controversial questions about intellectual property, data, the world we live in AND the world we want to live in.

Hosted by law professors Rebecca Giblin and Kimberlee Weatherall, this first season asks uncomfortable questions about patents. They’re supposed to facilitate cutting edge science and innovation, and enable the spread of ideas and knowledge. But is that how they actually work in practice? Are they achieving their goal of ensuring all people benefit from great ideas? In probing, hopeful conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers on these issues, Giblin and Weatherall turn attention to new ideas for rewarding new ideas.

Catch the first episode, Is patent law writing cheques it can’t cash?, on Monday August 21.