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/

2012 Video of Bill Moyers on the Freedom to Read and the "Bane of Banning Books"; Ethics, Info, Tech: Contested Voices, Values, Spaces, July 3, 2025

Carla Hayden, former Librarian of Congress, speaks on her dismissal, the future of libraries at Philadelphia event; WHYY, June 29, 2025

Five Months into the Trump Presidency: Charting the latest offensives against libraries and how advocates are pushing back; American Libraries, June 18, 2025

Newsmaker: Brewster Kahle; American Libraries, June 4, 2025

Former Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden speaks out about her firing by Trump; CBS, June 6, 2025

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

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

Celebrate the grand opening of Kentucky’s newest Patent and Trademark Resource Center; United States Patent and Trademark Center (USPTO), December 19, 2024

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

Figuring Out Fair Use; American Libraries, November 1, 2023

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

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

Study: 87% of Classic Video Games Are Endangered, Mostly Due to Copyright Laws, ExtremeTech, July 12, 2023

Why Does the U.S. Copyright Office Require Libraries to Lie to Users about Their Fair Use Rights? They Won’t Say.; The Scholarly Kitchen, July 5, 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

Publishers beat Internet Archive as judge rules e-book lending violates copyright; Ars Technica, March 27, 2023

The Internet Archive Is a Library; Inside Higher Ed, March 17, 2023

Libraries offering Intellectual Property workshop series; WV Mountaineer ENews, February 13, 2023

The CASE Act for Libraries and Archives; Library of Congress, May 2, 2022

The Top 10 Library Stories of 2022; Publishers Weekly, December 9, 2023