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/

Pushing Back Against Legal Threats by Putting Fair Use Forward; Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/29/11

Supreme Court Takes Up Scholars' Rights; Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/29/11

What's at Stake in the Georgia State Copyright Case; Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/30/11

What You Don't Know About Copyright, but Should; Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/29/11

The Copyright Rebellion; Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/29/11

From Shelves to Internet: America's Digital Library Takes Shape; Live Science, 5/27/11

[Podcast] Cory Doctorow on copyright and piracy: 'Every pirate wants to be an admiral'; Guardian, 5/30/11

British Library creates a "national memory' with digital newspaper archive; Guardian, 5/30/11

Citing Public Interest, Judge Rules for ‘Hangover II’; New York Times, 5/24/11

Doctors and dentists tell patients, "all your review are belong to us"; ArsTechnica.com, 5/24/11

The GSU Lawsuit: You Don't Know How Lucky You Are | Peer to Peer Review; Library Journal, 5/19/11

On Tyson’s Face, It’s Art. On Film, a Legal Issue; New York Times, 5/20/11

Photographers Respond to Lady Gaga's New Copyright Demands; Rolling Stone, 3/7/11

E-Books Outsell Print Books at Amazon; New York Times, 5/20/11

New Zealand Libraries Considering Shutting Off Public Internet Access To Avoid Three Strikes Law; TechDirt.com, 5/19/11

US ITC Report On China Piracy Shows Billions In Losses: Senators Demand Action; Intellectual Property Watch, 5/18/11

Class-action lawsuit targets Righthaven's "extortion litigation"; ArsTechnica.com, 5/18/11

U. of Michigan Copyright Sleuths Start New Project to Investigate Orphan Works; Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/16/11

EDUCAUSE Live! Web Seminar: Alphabet Soup: A P2P, DMCA, and HEOA FAQ, 5/18/11 1 PM EDT

The "PROTECT IP" Act: COICA Redux; Electronic Frontier Foundation, 5/12/11

LimeWire settles filesharing legal battle for $105m; Guardian, 5/13/11

ACTA Still Open To Interpretation, Legal Experts Say; Transparency Fight Ongoing; Intellectual Property Watch, 5/10/11

Trial Date Set for High-Stakes Copyright Case Involving Georgia State U.; Chronicle of Higher Education, 3/31/11

AP Apparently Less Concerned About Others' Copyrights; Sued For Infringing By Courtroom Artist; TechDirt.com, 5/9/11

Consumers’ Rights Still Not On Equal Footing With Copyright Owners’, Study Finds; Intellectual Property Watch, 5/3/11

Stars Gain Control of Online Images; New York Times, 5/9/11

Enforcing Copyrights Online, for a Profit; New York Times, 5/2/11

Weird Al snubbed by Lady Gaga, releases his parody without permission as fair use; BoingBoing.net, 4/20/11

Lessig At CERN: Scientific Knowledge Should Not Be Reserved For Academic Elite; Intellectual Property Watch, 4/19/11

Amazon to Allow Library Lending of Kindle Books (Updated); Library Journal, 4/20/11

NZ rushes through internet copyright bill; Sydney Morning Herald, 4/14/11

There's a better way to beat the ebook pirates; Observer via Guardian, 4/24/11

[Podcast] Newspapers vs. The Internet; OnTheMedia.org, 4/22/11

Google’s Loss: The Public’s Gain; New York Review of Books, 4/28/11

Jury Rebuffs Mattel, Giving Bratz Dolls Rights to a Rival; Associated Press via New York Times, 4/21/11

YouTube Sentences Copyright Offenders to School; New York Times, 4/14/11

Campus copyright: publishers sue over university "e-reserves"; ArsTechnica.com, 4/14/11

Warner Bros. dealt a setback in Superman legal battle: ComicBookResources.com, 4/13/11

ACRL 2011: A Rallying Cry for Leadership and Risk Taking in the Copyright Wars; Library Journal, 4/11/11

Ruling Spurs Effort to Form Digital Public Library; New York Times, 4/3/11

[Podcast] How to Beat Pirates; On the Media, 4/8/11

HathiTrust/Summon Deal Increases Search Access to In-Copyright Works; LibraryJournal.com, 3/28/11

Joanne Siegel’s posthumous appeal to Warner Bros.; ComicbookResources.com, 3/28/11

With Google Settlement Rejected, Library Groups Keep Eye on Access; Library Journal, 3/24/11

NY court: Keep Internet copyright disputes at home; Sydney Morning Herald, 3/25/11

Baidu apologises to writers in copyright dispute; Sydney Morning Herald, 3/27/11

Google, Authors, Will Need To Rethink Digital Book Settlement; Intellectual Property Watch, 3/23/11

Book Ruling Cuts Options for Google; New York Times, 3/23/11

A Digital Library Better Than Google’s; New York Times, 3/23/11

Copyright troll Righthaven achieves spectacular "fair use" loss; ArsTechnica.com, 3/22/11