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

Issues and developments related to IP, AI, and OM, examined in the IP and tech ethics graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. 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). Kip Currier, PhD, JD

Position Statement on the Termination of Dr. Carla Hayden as Librarian of Congress; Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), May 14, 2025

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden is fired by Trump; Politico, May 8, 2025

U.S. Copyright Office Releases New Copyright Registration Toolkit; U.S. Copyright Office, April 22, 2025

List of Books Removed from USNA Library; America's Navy, April 4, 2025

EFF Urges Third Circuit to Join the Legal Chorus: No One Owns the Law; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), March 31, 2025

Jeff Bezos is muzzling the Washington Post’s opinion section. That’s a death knell; The Guardian, February 26, 2025

Apple sidelines AI news summaries due to errors; Japan Today, January 17, 2025

A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed; NPR, January 4, 2025

We Stood Up for Access to the Law and Congress Listened: 2024 in Review; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), December 25, 2024

Who uses libraries? Even in the stacks, there’s a political divide.; The Washington Post, October 4, 2024

PEN America: Books bans doubled in 2023-2024 school year, most from Florida, Iowa; Florida Times-Union, September 24, 2024

Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand to US; The Guardian, August 15, 2024

Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win; Ars Technica, June 21, 2024

Training Generative AI Models on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use; ARL Views, January 23, 2024

Column: Mickey Mouse and ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ enter the public domain on Jan. 1, a reminder of our crazy copyright laws; Los Angeles Times, December 26, 2023

An Apparent Cyberattack Hushes the British Library; The New York Times, November 3, 2023

Unpublished Letter Sent to New York Times Editor on 10/2/23 re “The Enemies of Literature Are Winning” by Matthew Walther (Oct. 1, 2023)

Record Labels File $412 Million Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Internet Archive; Rolling Stone, August 12, 2023

Inside The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy; Library Journal, August 3, 2023

US farmers win right to repair John Deere equipment; BBC News, January 9, 2022