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/

Legal Battles Over E-Book Rights to Older Books; New York Times, 12/13/09

Unsettled: Questions about the Google Book Search Settlement | Peer to Peer Review; Library Journal, 12/10/09

Chris Weitz Says 'New Moon' Bootlegging Arrest Is 'Terribly Unfair'; MTV.com, 12/9/09

How About “Downlifting” to Replace “Digital Piracy”?; Freakonomics Blog, 4/17/09

Not Yet the Season for a Nook; New York Times, 12/10/09

Beyond 1923: Characteristics of Potentially In-copyright Print Books in Library Collections

[OpEd] An opportunity missed to apply 'fair use' to file sharing; LA Times, 12/7/09

Streaming will never stop downloading; Guardian, 12/8/09

Rereading: Paul Theroux on Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky; Guardian, 11/21/09

Burning CDs checked out from the library: ripping or ripping off?; Chicago Tribune, 11/28/09

Feds Prosecuting More Counterfeiters, IP Pirates; Wired, 12/3/09

Colleges Should Protect Humanists in Fair-Use Cases; Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/6/09

Artists' lawsuit: major record labels are the real pirates; Ars Technica, 12/7/09

How Team Tenenbaum missed a chance to shape P2P fair use law; Ars Technica, 12/7/09

ICC IP Guidelines Issued At Anti-Piracy Gala; Intellectual Property Watch, 12/1/09

Google books court battle could be page-turner; Chicago Tribune, 12/7/09

Yahoo Issues Takedown Notice for Spying Price List; Wired, 12/4/09

Questions for Jeffrey P. Bezos [Amazon CEO]; New York Times, 12/6/09

The Language Of 'Piracy' As A Spectacle; TechDirt, 12/4/09

Let Them Sing... About Copyright?; TechDirt, 12/4/09

Google draws flak over online 'crumbs'; Sydney Morning Herald, 12/4/09

Microsoft starts antipiracy initiatives in 70 countries; Ars Technica, 12/3/09

Judge rejects Amazon bid to scrap Google pact; Reuters, 12/2/09

Huffington hits out at Murdoch speech; Guardian, 12/2/09

Looks Like Entertainment Industry Lobbyists Got To The Spanish Government; TechDirt, 12/2/09

Internet companies urge Mandelson to delete clause from digital economy bill; Guardian, 12/

James Grimmelmann Dec. 2nd Talk at Drexel University

Current ACTA drafts ban DRM interoperability laws; Ars Technica, 11/30/09

[Op Ed] Copyright piracy has made it expensive to produce our films; Sunday Monitor (Uganda), 11/22/09

Online movie free-for-all; Chicago Sun-Times, 11/22/09

Pub fined £8,000 for customer's illicit downloads, ZDNet reports; Guardian, 11/27/09

Google's book-scanning deal is not sealed yet; LA Times, 11/28/09

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Authorities target book piracy in raids across the country; LA Times, 11/18/09

Fox CEO wants US to join France on Internet piracy; Sydney Morning Herald, 11/24/09

780,000 pirated DVDs shredded in police raids; Sydney Morning Herald, 11/25/09

EU assembly adopts Internet, phone user rights; Sydney Morning Herald, 11/26/09

Why does Mandelson favour the Analogue Economy over the Digital?; Guardian, 11/26/09

Pirates find easy new pickings in open waters of e-book publishing; London Times, 11/21/09

Don't Disconnect Us petition surges after Stephen Fry endorsement; Guardian, 11/25/09

Google bringing fee-based e-book service to Japan: report; Market Watch, 11/25/09

Swedes start buying music; are anti-P2P laws working?; Ars Technica, 11/24/09

Publishers Getting The Wrong Message Over eBook Piracy; Tech Dirt, 11/24/09

The Computer Stole My Homework -- and Sold It Through an Essay Mill; Wired Campus, 11/23/09