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/

Copyright Cases Should Not Threaten Chatbot Users’ Privacy; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), June 23, 2025

Pope: Intelligence is seeking life's true meaning, not having reams of data; United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, June 20, 2025

OpenAI to appeal copyright ruling in NY Times case as Altman calls for 'AI privilege'; Foxbusiness, June 6, 2025

Government AI copyright plan suffers fourth House of Lords defeat; BBC, June 2, 2025

Why I regret using 23andMe: I gave up my DNA just to find out I’m British; The Guardian, November 30, 2024

What AI knows about you; Axios, November 4, 2024

Adobe Responds to AI Fears With Plans for Updated Legal Terms; Bloomberg Law, June 12, 2024

Angry Instagram posts won’t stop Meta AI from using your content; Popular Science, June 5, 2024

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

EU legal advisor: disclosing identities of suspected copyright pirates "compatible" with EU privacy laws; Boing Boing, September 29, 2023

Montana seeks balancing act with wildlife location data, hunting ethics; Independent Record, February 6, 2020

UK Government Plans To Open Public Transport Data To Third Parties; Forbes, December 31, 2019

I Wanted to Stream Buffy, Angel, and Firefly for Free, But Not Like This; Gizmodo, November 30, 2018

New privacy rules could spell the end of legalese — or create a lot more fine print; The Washington Post, May 24, 2018

‘Westworld’ Season 2: Seven Big Things We Still Don’t Know at Midseason; The New York Times, May 21, 2018

Transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s Senate hearing; Transcript courtesy of Bloomberg Government via The Washington Post, April 10, 2018

How can we stop algorithms telling lies?; Guardian, July 16, 2017

Obama chief data scientist: Trumpcare health plan would ‘cripple’ precision medicine; FedScoop, May 24, 2017

Taking Pittsburgh’s Open Data on the Road; Government Technology, May 8, 2017

At Berkeley, a New Digital Privacy Protest; New York Times, 2/1/16