# Shontavia Johnson

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#17 - Copyrights 101 for Content Creators

In this episode of The Shontavia Show, host Shontavia Johnson runs through copyrights 101--she talks about why content creators--and everybody who uses/posts things on social media--probably interact with, and create more, copyrighted work than any other type of intellectual property. She also expl…

#18 - How to Turn a Viral Moment into a Successful Business with Sherrica Sims

On this week's episode of The Shontavia Show, host Shontavia Johnson speaks with Sherrica Sims, who has received more than 13 million views and counting on a viral YouTube video featuring her and her daughter.Seeing the potential opportunity to leverage their millions of views, Sherrica turned her …

#19 - How to Use Conferences to Build Your Business and Brand

In this episode of The Shontavia Show (pre-recorded long before the COVID-19 pandemic), host Shontavia Johnson talks about using conferences to build your business and brand. She provides advice about how to get the coveted invitation from conference organizers, including how to choose a speaking t…

Home Security System

The patent for the Ring doorbell cites this as the starting point. A Heath Robinson looking design with peep holes, sliding cameras and radio controlled alarms. An invention, and an inventor, ahead of their time. Marie van Brittan Brown was an African American nurse living in Queens in New York in …

Expanding intellectual property understanding through education

As a minority in the legal profession, our next guest found it easy to understand the challenges faced by minorities, especially in her particular area of expertise, intellectual property law, where she encountered many creators who had no idea what the topic even meant. Shontavia Johnson is now us…

Expanding intellectual property understanding through education

(This is a replay of a previous program which originally aired Mar. 10, 2023) As a minority in the legal profession, our next guest found it easy to understand the challenges faced by minorities, especially in her particular area of expertise, intellectual property law, where she encountered many c…

A Special Edition Fashion Law Dinner Party: The 2025 Met Gala

For fashion lawyers and scholars, the Met Gala is a dream hypothetical. This year, it was even more so thanks to the Gala's theme "Tailored to You" and the exhibition the Gala celebrated, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. A celebration of black fashion heritage and black cultural heritage, the look…

Meet Marion Rogers Croak: Innovative Computer Scientist

On the third episode of the Patent Series, Shontavia Johnson teaches us about Marian Rogers Croak, the prolific engineer and inventor behind Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and over 200 patents, whose work forever changed how voices travel across the internet and around the world. Hosted by Si…

Meet Benjamin Montgomery: Brilliant & Resilient Inventor

In our final edition of the Patent Series, Shontavia Johnson sits down with Karen Hunter to discuss Benjamin Montgomery, a formerly enslaved inventor and landowner whose innovation—a special steamboat propeller for shallow waters—demonstrated the creative genius and resilience of Black inventors in…