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

It's Copyright Week 2025: Join Us in the Fight for Better Copyright Law and Policy; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), January 27, 2025

CSotD: Telnaes is only unemployed, not gone; The Daily Cartoonist, January 4, 2025

While the Court Fights Over AI and Copyright Continue, Congress and States Focus On Digital Replicas: 2024 in Review; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), December 27, 2024

Icelandic Fishing Giant Wins Copyright Case Against Artist; artnet, November 14, 2024

Richard Prince to Pay Photographers Who Sued Over Copyright; The New York Times, January 26, 2024

Books under attack, then and now; MIT News, October 26, 2023

Generative AI vs. Copyright; Publishers Weekly, September 22, 2023

Zoom Panel: Haven’t We Been Here Before: A Panel Discussion on Banning LGBTQIA+ Books. Wednesday, April 5. 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT. University of Pittsburgh

A Tool That Removes Copyrighted Works Is Not a Substitute for Fair Use; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), January 20, 2020

The EU copyright law that artists love—and internet pioneers say would destroy the web; Quartz, September 11, 2018

Not in our name: Why European creators must oppose the EU's proposal to limit linking and censor the internet; BoingBoing, September 10, 2018

EU Internet Advocates Launch Campaign to Stop Dangerous Copyright Filtering Proposal; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), March 7, 2017

U.S. Justice Department Defends Copyright Anti-Hacking Law as "Unquestionably Constitutional"; Hollywood Reporter, 9/30/16

The Blog That Disappeared; New York Times, 7/29/16

Reprint of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Tests German Law; New York Times, 6/1/16

‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Online Could Spread; New York Times, 8/5/15

Should Germans Read ‘Mein Kampf’?; New York Times, 7/7/14