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/

Column: Mickey Mouse and ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ enter the public domain on Jan. 1, a reminder of our crazy copyright laws; Los Angeles Times, December 26, 2023

Chinese scientists ask for patent on US drug to fight virus; Associated Press, February 6, 2020

Arguments over European open-access plan heat up; Nature, November 12, 2018

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

Law Professors Urge Senate Judiciary Committee to Reject or Amend CLASSICS Act; Public Knowledge, May 15, 2018

Lou Reed Archives Head to New York Public Library; New York Times, March 2, 2017

Why Patent Protection In The Drug Industry Is Out Of Control; Forbes, 1/19/17

New US Copyright Rule Sets Trap For Online Firms; Intellectual Property Watch, 11/25/16

Change at the Copyright Office; Publishers Weekly, 10/28/16

Suboxone Creator’s Shocking Scheme to Profit Off of Heroin Addicts; Daily Beast, 10/5/16

The Strange Case of Off-Patent Drug Price Gougers; Bloomberg, 9/9/16

The US Copyright Office is the poster child for regulatory capture; Boing Boing, 9/8/16

Tell Your University: Don't Sell Patents to Trolls; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), 8/17/16

Is Open Access To Research Biden's Answer To Curing Cancer?; Forbes, 4/22/16

Yosemite to Rename Several Iconic Places; Outside, 1/14/16

Pitt among medical research groups cited for failure to report findings; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12/15/15

The twisted history of the Happy Birthday song—and the copyright shenanigans that keep it profitable; BoingBoing.net, 8/7/15

Research Is Just the Beginning: A Free People Must Have Open Access to the Law; Electronic Frontier Foundation, 10/23/14

Twenty-Sixth Horace S. Manges Lecture, Columbia University Law School, 3/4/13

Staffer axed by Republican group over retracted copyright-reform memo; ArsTechnica.com, 12/6/12