Intellectual Property (IP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Open Movements (OM)

Issues and developments related to IP, AI, and OM. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in January 2026 and includes chapters on IP, AI, OM, and other emerging technologies (IoT, drones, robots, autonomous vehicles, VR/AR). Preorders are available via this webpage: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ethics-information-and-technology-9781440856662/

Google lifts its ban on using AI for weapons; BBC, February 5, 2025

His daughter was murdered. Then she reappeared as an AI chatbot.; The Washington Post, October 15, 2024

AI could be an existential threat to publishers – that’s why Mumsnet is fighting back; The Guardian, September 28, 2024

AI scientist Ray Kurzweil: ‘We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045’; The Guardian, June 29, 2024

Google’s A.I. Search Leaves Publishers Scrambling; The New York Times, June 1, 2024

Reddit shares jump after OpenAI ChatGPT deal; BBC, May 17, 2024

Google hit with $270M fine in France as authority finds news publishers’ data was used for Gemini; TechCrunch, March 20, 2024

AI is learning from stolen intellectual property. It needs to stop.; The Washington Post, October 19, 2023

Google promises to take the legal heat in users’ AI copyright lawsuits; The Verge, October 12, 2023

Google and YouTube are trying to have it both ways with AI and copyright; The Verge, August 22, 2023

Google hit with class-action lawsuit over AI data scraping; Reuters, July 11, 2023

Supreme Court asks for Biden administration's views in Google copyright case; December 12, 2022

YouTube and content creators clash over the platform’s automated copyright tool; Marketplace, November 4, 2022

AI-ethics pioneer Margaret Mitchell on her five-year plan at open-source AI startup Hugging Face; Emerging Tech Brew, October 4, 2021

Self-Driving to Federal Prison: The Trade Secret Theft Saga of Anthony Levandowski Continues; Lexology, August 13, 2020

How to find copyright-free images (and avoiding a stock photo subscription); TNW, April 29, 2020

A former Uber executive was ordered to pay Google $179 million. Then he filed for bankruptcy.; The Washington Post, March 4, 2020

Oracle Files Response To Google and API Copyright - We Are All Doomed; i-Programmer, February 17, 2020

EFF Asks Supreme Court To Reverse Dangerous Rulings About API Copyrightability and Fair Use; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), January 13, 2020

Supreme Court will hear Google’s appeal in massive copyright suit brought by Oracle; CNBC, November 15, 2019