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/

A Digital Library Guru Discusses New Rules on Sharing Scientific Data; Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/28/11

Young inventors prompt colleges to revamp rules; Associated Press, 1/24/11

Can Your Camera Phone Turn You Into a Pirate?; New York Times, 1/16/11

Playing catch-up in a digital library race; New York Times, 1/9/11

Obama Image Copyright Case Is Settled; New York Times, 1/12/11

[Podcast] Digital Music Sampling: Creativity Or Criminality?; Talk of the Nation, 1/28/11

Fair use for poets, demystified; BoingBoing.net, 1/29/11

Music Industry Braces for the Unthinkable; New York Times, 1/24/11

Why Some Elite Colleges Give Away Courses Online; Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/19/11

In Twist, Jeff Koons Claims Rights to ‘Balloon Dogs; New York Times, 1/20/11

Mattel Lawyer Accuses MGA Of Luring Bratz Designer; NPR/AP, 1/18/11

Fair Usage In Caribbean Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property Watch, 1/16/11

The Catcher in the Rye 'sequel' to be published; Guardian, 1/12/11

[Podcast] Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Public Imagination; On the Media, 1/14/11

Brussels Wants 7-Year Limit on Works Digitized by Google; New York Times, 1/11/11

Library of Congress Gets a Mile of Music; New York Times, 1/10/11

The 373-Hit Wonder; New York Times, 1/9/11

Hip-Hop and Copyright Law in the [sic] Classroomleg; Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/5/11

Counting on Google Books; Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/16/10

What Was 2010′s Most Pirated TV Show?; Spinoff Online, 12/31/10

E-Books Outsell Paper Books On Barnes & Noble's Online Store; AP/Huffington Post, 12/30/10

Uncertainty About 'Fair Use' Is Hurting Academic and Research Libraries, ARL Report Says; Library Journal, 12/28/10

Oracle Owed Interest by SAP in Infringement Case, Judge Rules; Bloomberg, 12/29/10

Righthaven responds to fair use defense in suit; Miami Herald, 12/27/10

Looking at the cloud from both sides now; Los Angeles Times, 12/28/10

GEMA Music Collection Society No Longer Will Let Kindergartens Get Away With Teaching Music For Free; TechDirt, 12/30/10

Google Streamlining its Approach to Digital Copyright; Wired.com, 12/2/10

Top IP-Watch Stories Of 2010: Copyright Fights, ACTA, Medicines Access; Intellectual Property Watch, 12/30/10

50 Cent Named In NY Copyright Infringement Lawsuit; NPR, 12/15/10

Viacom Replays Copyright Claims In YouTube Appeal; NPR, 12/3/10

[Podcast] They Say That I Stole This; NPR's On the Media, 12/24/10

Watch out Big Content—RapidShare has hired a lobbying firm; ArsTechnica.com, 12/28/10

Cheaters Find an Adversary in Technology; New York Times, 12/28/10

The Creative Cocktail: A Guest Post; New York Times, 12/23/10

Porn site: publicizing takedown notices is copyright infringement; ArsTechnica.com, 12/23/10

[Editorial] China and Intellectual Property; New York Times, 12/24/10

Avatar Tops List as Most Pirated Movie of 2010; Tech Week, 12/25/10

Split Decision Settles Few Questions in Supreme Court Copyright Case; Library Journal, 12/16/10

US Ambassador: Over-Focus On Development “Will Kill” WIPO; Intellectual Property Watch, 12/17/10

School librarians: Headed for the history books?; Minneapolis Star Tribune, 12/11/10

Funk Legend George Clinton Sues the Black Eyed Peas for alleged Copyright Infringement, Entertainment Weekly, 12/14/10

No harm, no foul? P2P user says $1.5M award should be zeroed out; ArsTechnica.com, 12/8/10

Koslowski’s Lament; Eye on Comics, 12/8/10

Wikileaks cables reveal that the US wrote Spain's proposed copyright law; BoingBoing.net, 12/3/10

Is it time for term limits for the Copyright Office's Register?; ArsTechnica.com, 12/7/10

MPAA Sends Letter to Thousands of Colleges About Copyright Rules; Wired Campus, 12/6/10

US Online Counterfeit Crackdown Has Industry Beaming; Intellectual Property Watch, 11/29/10

U.S. Government Seizes 82 Websites: A Glimpse at the Draconian Future of Copyright Enforcement?; Electronic Frontier Foundation, 11/29/10

Google's bookstore may launch in time for the holidays; ArsTechnica.com, 12/1/10

Why is the Department of Homeland Security shutting down popular rap sites?; Entertainment Weekly, 11/30/10