Edward Wyatt, New York Times; Lines Drawn on Antipiracy Bills:
"A House committee plans to take up one of the bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act, on Thursday...
“Our mistake was allowing this romantic word — piracy — to take hold,” Tom Rothman, the co-chief executive of Fox Filmed Entertainment, said in an interview last week in Washington.
“It’s really robbery — it’s theft — and that theft is being combined with consumer fraud,” he said."
Issues and developments related to Intellectual Property (e.g. Copyright, Fair Use, Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets) and Open Movements (e.g. Open Access, Open Data, Open Educational Resources (OER)), examined in the "Intellectual Property and Open Movements" and "Ethics of Data, Information, and Emerging Technologies" graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. -- Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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