![]() ![]() He taught for more than a decade at the University of Oregon before ending up at Davis, in 2006. ![]() Aoki practiced law for two years in Boston, specializing in technology law. A talented musician who had played violin and guitar in a rock band, he worried that stringent intellectual-property laws stifled creativity by making it hard for artists to draw on their musical or artistic influences.Īfter receiving his law degree, in 1990, Mr. Aoki, who had bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine arts, drew cartoons for an underground newspaper in New York City before tiring of the starving artist’s lifestyle and enrolling at Harvard Law School. ![]() Their audience was documentary-film makers and other artistic creators who don’t read law journals. He was 55.Īlthough he published in traditional law journals, he was better known for the entertaining, comic book-style publications about fair use and copyright that he and two collaborators from Duke University created. Aoki, whose scholarship focused on intellectual property, civil rights, critical race theory, and local-government law, died in his home in Sacramento on April 26 after an extended illness. Aoki, of the University of California at Davis School of Law, say they will remember him best as a brilliant, funny, and humble scholar. ![]() The law professor turned his artistic talents into a powerful tool for battling overzealous copyright laws.īut those who knew Mr. Like the swashbuckling heroes who populate his comic books, Keith Aoki was a crusader for digital freedom. ![]()
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