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/

Wicked and the Importance of the Public Domain; Reason, January 1, 2025

POPEYE, ‘THE SKELETON DANCE,’ AND ‘SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN’ ENTER THE PUBLIC DOMAIN; Rolling Stone, January 1, 2025

Column: A Faulkner classic and Popeye enter the public domain while copyright only gets more confusing; Los Angeles Times, December 31, 2024

Happy Public Domain Day! Popeye, ‘Rhapsody in Blue,’ ‘The Sound and the Fury’ and Thousands of Other Captivating Creations Are Finally Free for Everyone to Use; Smithsonian Magazine, December 30, 2024

A Farewell to Copyright: International Public Domain Day 2025; Denver Public Library Special Collections and Archives, December 23, 2024

A farewell to copyright protection for Hemingway, Hammett — and Popeye; Marketplace, December 25, 2024

January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1924!; Center for the Study of the Public Domain

Disney loses famous Mickey Mouse copyright in 2024, along with many others; CBS News, December 30, 2023

Mickey Mouse, Long a Symbol in Copyright Wars, to Enter Public Domain: ‘It’s Finally Happening’; Variety, December 22, 2023

Something is afoot with copyright this Public Domain Day; The Guardian, January 1, 2023

January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all!; Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain, January 1, 2023

Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright this weekend; The Verge, December 28, 2022

‘Pooh,’ ‘Sun Also Rises’ among works going public in 2022; Associated Press, December 31, 2022

The Great Gatsby prequel set for release days after copyright expires; The Guardian, July 15, 2020

January 1, 2019 is (finally) Public Domain Day: Works from 1923 are open to all!; Center for the Study of the Public Domain, January 2019

Happy public domain day: here's what copyright term extension stole from you in 2015; BoingBoing.net, 12/31/15

Frankenstein TV: what happens when literary classics drop out of copyright; Guardian, 11/16/15

Can We Strengthen our Fragile Public Domain?; Library Journal, 2/12/15