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/

Can The Open-Data Revolution Change Our Democracies?; NPR/TED Staff, 1/31/14

Artist Files Suit Over Missing Empire State Building Paintings; New York Times, 1/31/14

Playwright Sues to Salvage Play Deconstructing ‘Three’s Company’; New York Times, 1/30/14

Anant Agarwal: Why massively open online courses (still) matter; TED Talk via YouTube, 1/27/14

Is the White House trying to blow up an open data bill?; Washington Post, 1/29/14

Prince drops $22M copyright suit against Facebook fans; CNet, 1/29/14

Can open data improve GPs' take-up of innovations?; Guardian, 1/29/14

Pete Seeger, a Folk Revivalist Who Used His Voice to Bring Out a Nation’s; New York Times, 1/28/14

Tarantino Sues Gawker for Posting Film Script; New York Times, 1/28/14

Librarians Protest Canada Cutbacks; Chronicle of Higher Education via New York Times, 1/26/14

Prince sues Facebook fans who shared links to live performances for copyright infringment [sic]; Belfast Telegraph, 1/27/14

'New Girl' sued for copyright infringement; Entertainment Weekly, 1/22/14

How Government Can Make Open Data Work; InformationWeek, 1/22/14

Government calls on coders to churn out apps using open data; Vancouver Sun, 1/22/14

3-D Printing Moves Closer to the Mainstream; New York Times, 1/20/14

U.S. justices referee 'Raging Bull' copyright fight; Reuters, 1/21/14

Pittsburgh's data guru Meixell is ready; first challenge is 311 system; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1/19/14

Sarah Palin loses bid to move copyright lawsuit against her to Alaska; New York Daily News, 1/20/14

Nearly All German National Library Metadata Now Available Under CC0 License; Library Journal, 1/16/14

Congress Passes Spending Bill Requiring Free Access to Publicly Funded Research; Library Journal, 1/17/14

Books go online for free in Norway; Telegraph, 1/16/14

Copyright Week; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), 1/13-1/18/14

The End of Ownership: Why You Need to Fight America’s Copyright Laws; Wired.com, 1/17/14

Pittsburgh councilwoman Rudiak introduces open data bill; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1/14/14

Dude, You Can’t Copyright That Hookah; Wired.com, 1/9/14

The copyright case: Sherlock Holmes at the center of legal debate; Associated Press via CBS News, 1/3/14

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