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

Authors Guild appeals decision in Google Books copyright suit; CNet, 12/30/13

Report: Open Data Could be $3 Trillion Boon; FEDweek, 12/30/13

Veterans Affairs Website Offers Open Data; Information Week, 12/30/13

New Sherlock Holmes mystery: Where's my copyright?; Los Angeles Times, 12/30/13

Happy Birthday; On The Media, 12/27/13

Open access 2013: A year of gaining momentum; Scientific American, 12/26/13

2013 in Review: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), 12/28/13

Robin Thicke, Fair Use, Jackson v. AEG: Entertainment's Top Legal Disputes of 2013; Billboard, 12/27/13

YouTube's Merry Christmas: Letting Large Music Publishers Steal Money From Guy Singing Public Domain Christmas Carol; TechDirt.com, 12/24/13

The case against Kim Dotcom, finally revealed; ArsTechnica.com, 12/23/13

Libraries are making scholarship accessible to all; American Libraries, 12/23/13

Illegal Video Downloads Continue Upward Trajectory; New York Times, 12/27/13

A judge just gave an elementary lesson on copyright to the owners of Sherlock Holmes; Washington Post, 12/27/13

Sherlock Holmes is public property … but steer clear of Watson's second wife; Guardian, 12/27/13

The Vast Majority of Raw Data From Old Scientific Studies May Now Be Missing; Smithsonian.com, 12/19/13

Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, American Judge Rules; New York Times, 12/27/13

‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Breaking Bad’ Most Pirated TV Shows of 2013; Variety, 12/26/13

Young musicians get lessons in the law; Boston Globe, 12/25/13

Maria Pallante, Head of US Copyright Office, To Meet With Music Creators: Exclusive; Billboard, 12/18/13

Using copyright to keep repair manuals secret undermines circular economy; Guardian, 12/20/13

You'll Never Guess Where This FBI Agent Left a Secret Interrogation Manual; Mother Jones, 12/20/13

Digital Firsts; Library Journal, 12/18/13

After Beijing And Marrakesh, WIPO Copyright Committee Feels The Pressure; Intellectual Property Watch, 12/17/13

Government Requests to Remove Online Material Increase at Google; New York Times, 12/19/13

Copyright Office Calls for Congress to Reconsider Royalties for Artists; New York Times, 12/16/13

Argentina Passes Open Access Act For Publicly Funded Research; Intellectual Property Watch, 12/16/13

Beatles recordings released 50 years later to protect copyright; CBS News, 12/17/13

Beatles rarities being released to beat copyright laws; BBC News, 12/13/13

Proposed EU Copyright Rules Could Aid Pandora, Spotify, Netflix, Lovefilm, In Fact Every Streaming Firm; Forbes, 12/10/13

One European copyright law-to-rule-them-all? EU launches review; Register, 12/10/13

In a Scoreboard of Words, a Cultural Guide; New York Times, 12/7/13

Largest-Ever Open Access Publishing Initiative To Start At CERN In January; Intellectual Property Watch, 12/5/13

IP-Watch Works To Open TPP Text; USTR Misses Response Deadline; Intellectual Property Watch, 12/4/13

Appeals court considers Oracle's Java copyright claims; CNet, 12/4/13

EU lawmakers ask for help tackling copyright questions in the cloud era; IDG News Service via PC World, 12/5/13

Hotfile forks over $80 million to settle MPAA copyright suit; CNet, 12/3/13

Does parody trump copyright?; Economist, 12/4/13

Beastie Boys Fight Online Video Parody of ‘Girls’; New York Times, 11/25/13

John Conyers: Music legends deserve R-E-S-P-E-C-T; USA Today, 12/1/13

BBC throws weight behind open data movement; Telegraph, 11/25/13

Haitian Photographer Wins Major U.S. Copyright Victory; New York Times, 11/23/13

DC wins ‘final’ appeal in long battle over Superman rights; ComicBookResources.com, 11/22/13

Rap Genius Says It Will Seek Licenses for Lyrics; New York Times, 11/14/13

U.S. copyright industries add $1 trillion to GDP; Los Angeles Times, 11/19/13

Angered by MOOC Deals, San Jose State Faculty Senate Considers Rebuff; Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/18/13

Article: WIPO Director Gurry In Hot Seat On Eve Of Election Deadline; Intellectual Property Watch, 11/18/13

Siding With Google, Judge Says Book Search Does Not Infringe Copyright; New York Times, 11/14/13

Leaked treaty draft shows US at loggerheads with Pacific states on copyright; PC World, 11/14/13

Google prevails over authors in book-scanning U.S. lawsuit; Reuters, 11/14/13

In Music Piracy Battles, Lyrics Demand Respect Too; New York Times, 11/11/13