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/

Carla Hayden on her time as a pioneering librarian of Congress and getting fired by Trump; PBS News, June 20, 2025

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

Librarians Are Finding Thousands Of Books No Longer Protected By Copyright Law; Vice, February 9, 2023

Internet Archive to Publishers: Drop ‘Needless’ Copyright Lawsuit and Work with Us; Publishers Weekly, July 23, 2020

Job Posting, Copyright Librarian in Circulation Department, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island

Missouri could jail librarians for lending 'age-inappropriate' books; The Guardian, January 16, 2020

Giant Publisher Macmillan Goes To War Against Libraries; TechDirt, November 15, 2019

Librarians from across the Pacific gather for conference on open access, collaboration; University of California Berkeley Library News, September 24, 2018

Let’s Make The Copyright Office Less Political, Not More; Electronic Frontier foundation (EFF), March 27, 2017

Supporting Open Access; Library Journal, February 20, 2017

Sci-Hub Controversy Triggers Publishers’ Critique of Librarian; Library Journal, 8/25/16

The Difference between Copyright Infringement and Plagiarism—and Why It Matters; Library Journal, 8/17/16

The Acceleration of Open Access; Inside Higher Ed, 8/18/16

[Webinar] Who Pays the Freight? Open Access: The Future of Funding, 5/25/16

Libraries in the Time of MOOCs; Educause Review, 11/4/13

WIPO Copyright Committee In Fight To Overcome Differences On Exceptions, Limitations; Intellectual Property Watch, 11/12/10

LJ/SLJ's First Virtual Summit on Ebooks Draws Over 2100 Attendees; Library Journal, 10/1/10

Google's count of 130 million books is probably bunk; ArsTechnica.com, 8/9/10

Librarians Do Gaga At The University Of Washington (VIDEO) ... Awkward Or Amazing?; Huffington Post, 6/4/10

Terms of Digital Book Deal With Google Revised; New York Times, 11/14/09