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

Libraries to observe Open Access Week with virtual panel discussion Oct. 24; Penn State, October 11, 2023

Over 24,000 coronavirus research papers are now available in one place; MIT Technology Review, March 16, 2020

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

NNS Spotlight: Nonprofit uses data research to spur change in communities; Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (NNS), November 6, 2019

'The Pirate Bay of Science' Continues to Get Attacked Around the World; Motherboard, December 3, 2018

Harvard Converts Millions of Legal Documents into Open Data; Government Technology, November 2, 2018

Are Open Data Efforts Working?; Government Technology, March 2018

Open data comes to Syracuse; WRVO, July 27, 2017

Should Open Access And Open Data Come With Open Ethics?; Forbes, July 20, 2017

Five questions about open science answered; Phys.org, May 30, 2017

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

I am an Arctic researcher. Donald Trump is deleting my citations; Guardian, March 28, 2017

Patent Data – The Modern Investor’s Crystal Ball; Intellectual Property Watch, March 6, 2017

Peer-review activists push psychology journals towards open data; Nature, March 1, 2017

Data disappeared from Obama administration site promoting transparency; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 22, 2017

‘All of our federal data assets are currently at risk’ — here’s how people are trying to protect them; FedScoop, February 19, 2017

Open Science: Beyond Open Access webinar; Library Journal, February 21, 2017

These Are the Best Ways to Improve the Scientific Publication Process; Quora via Huffington Post, February 13, 2017

Will open data survive Trump?; InfoWorld, 1/16/17

Openness by Default; Inside Higher Ed, 1/16/17