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

After suits, Phoenix backs fair use and copyright law changes; Los Angeles Times, 2/28/14

Copyright meets “Innocence of Muslims”: Ninth Circuit orders removal of movie from YouTube, on copyright grounds; Washington Post, 2/26/14

Unlocking the Benefits of Open Data; HuffingtonPost.com, 2/25/14

Judge Likely to Dismiss Script Case; New York Times, 2/24/14

TV Networks Ask Supreme Court to Shut Down Aereo; New York Times, 2/24/14

New Legislation Seeks to Modernize Copyright Act to Benefit Songwriters; Billboard, 2/25/14

European Union Sees Flurry Of Activity On Copyright Policy; Intellectual Property Watch, 2/21/14

Aereo loses copyright fight, gets banned in 6 states; ArsTechnica.com, 2/19/14

Canadian court ruling in Teksavvy file sharing case a blow to copyright trolls: Geist; Toronto Star, 2/21/14

Photographers Band Together to Protect Work in ‘Fair Use’ Cases; New York Times, 2/21/14

Widespread Vulnerability Found in Dozens of Government 'Open Data' Websites; Weekly Standard, 2/20/14

Why deny US-style Fair Use copyright laws to Australians?; Sydney Morning Herald, 2/19/14

Copyright fair use clause fails to persuade George Brandis; Guardian, 2/14/14

Don Henley, Steven Tyler Condemn Potential Copyright Law Change; Rolling Stone, 2/13/14

Interviews With The Candidates For WIPO Director General; Intellectual Property Watch, 2/12/14

Open Data Now, book review: An optimistic view of a brave new world; ZDNet, 2/11/14

Even Good Films May Go to Purgatory; New York Times, 2/14/14

College & Research Libraries News; Last sale?: Libraries’ rights in the digital age, February 2014

AAAS Launches Open-Access Journal; Science News, 12/12/14

Linking to a website doesn't infringe copyright, Europe's Court of Justice says; PC World, 2/13/14

U.S. Copyright Office/LC Announces Plans for Public Roundtable on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization Issues; Library Journal, 2/8/14

Catch My Diff: Github's New Feature Means Big Things for Open Data; Atlantic, 2/7/14

WIPO Director General Election: How It Works; Intellectual Property Watch, 2/3/14

City lays out next steps in Open Data Plan; Chicago Tribune, 2/7/14

Free Trade Disagreement; New York Times, 2/4/14

Copyright & The Changing Political Environment In Washington - Derek Khanna V. Ben Sheffner (MPAA VP); Forbes, 2/4/14

Steel City Codefest Shows the Potential for Open Data; 90.5 WESA, 2/4/14

EU's copyright do-over delayed a month; PC World, 2/3/14

Timid About Fair Use?; Inside Higher Ed, 1/30/14

Give the Data to the People; New York Times 2/2/14

Minneapolis sees civic push for open data; Minneapolis Star Tribune, 2/1/14

New York, the Silicon City; New York Times, 1/6/14

Open Data Day, February 22, 2014; 2/1/14

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