Intellectual Property (IP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Open Movements (OM)

My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" was published on Nov. 13, 2025. Purchases can be made via Amazon and this Bloomsbury webpage: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ethics-information-and-technology-9781440856662/

Libraries’ Love Your Data Week raises awareness among research universities; Penn State News, 2/5/16

Rauschenberg Foundation Eases Copyright Restrictions on Art; New York Times, 2/26/16

Sony Music Issues Takedown On Copyright Lecture About Music Copyrights By Harvard Law Professor; TechDirt.com, 2/16/16

Library of Congress Puts Rosa Parks Archive Online; New York Times, 2/25/16

Patent scandal: Secret probe of top UN official completed; FoxNews.com, 2/18/16

PCT – The International Patent System; WIPO

Colm Tóibín: how Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet; Guardian, 2/20/16

US Congressional Hearing On WIPO Accountability This Week; Intellectual Property Watch, 2/22/16

‘Deadpool’ Technology Lands in Patent Fight; New York Times, 2/24/16

President Obama Announces His Intent to Nominate Carla D. Hayden as Librarian of Congress; WhiteHouse.gov, 2/24/16

Sara Fine Institute presents: Christine Borgman, "Big Data, Open Data, and Scholarship": Mon Feb 29th 3.00pm - 5.00pm, University of Pittsburgh

Fair Use Week at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries: February 22-26, 2016

Google gets patents for advanced Glass and a driverless delivery truck; ComputerWorld, 2/18/16

Librarians Find Themselves Caught Between Journal Pirates and Publishers; Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/18/16

Marvell Technology to Pay Carnegie Mellon $750 Million Over Patents; Reuters via New York Times, 2/17/16

Balancing Benefits and Risks of Immortal Data Participants’ Views of Open Consent in the Personal Genome Project; Hastings Center Report, 12/17/15

Without Copyright Infringement, Deadpool Doesn't Get Made; TechDirt.com, 2/16/16

Gearing Up for the Cloud, AT&T Tells Its Workers: Adapt, or Else; New York Times, 2/13/16

Leading Scientific Institutions Agree to Share Zika Research Data; Gizmodo, 2/10/16

Researcher illegally shares millions of science papers free online to spread knowledge; Science Alert, 2/12/16

Pitt to merge SIS, CS department; The Pitt News, 2/11/16

U.S. the Best for Intellectual Property; U.S. News & World Report, 2/10/16

Martin Shkreli Sued by Artist Over Wu-Tang Clan Album; Associated Press via New York Times, 2/9/16

Appeals court upholds Warner Bros.’ Superman rights; ComicBookResources.com, 2/11/16

’80s X-Men characters come to life in rocking music video; ComicBookResources.com, 2/10/16

‘Happy Birthday to You’ Is Finally Out of Copyright; New York Magazine, 2/10/16

How Google Stole the Work of Millions of Authors; Wall Street Journal, 2/7/16

Artur Fischer, Inventor With More Patents Than Edison, Dies at 96; New York Times, 2/8/16

Give Up Your Data to Cure Disease; New York Times, 2/6/16

YouTube stars U-turn on trademarks after online fury; BBC News, 2/2/16

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES RELEASED A FREE COLORING BOOK OF WEIRD PATENTS; Popular Science, 2/5/16

When a Public Family Is Publicly Attacked; New York Times, 2/5/16

Senator Rob Portman to Oppose Pacific Trade Pact; New York Times, 2/4/16

[Press Release] WVU Press and Libraries launch open access reader on West Virginia history, 1/15/16

African Avengers: the comic book creators shaking up superhero genre; Guardian, 2/3/16

Cops will adapt big data platform to secure Super Bowl; FedScoop.com, 2/5/16

If China Ever Uses Copyright to Censor Tank Man, It Will Be America’s Fault; Motherboard, 2/1/16

Out of a Rare Super Bowl I Recording, a Clash With the N.F.L. Unspools; New York Times, 2/2/16

At Berkeley, a New Digital Privacy Protest; New York Times, 2/1/16

Adele tells Donald Trump to stop pinching her songs for his campaign; Guardian, 2/1/16

Unpublished Black History; New York Times, 2/1/16

Five Charged in U.S. With Stealing Secrets From GlaxoSmithKline; Reuters via New York Times, 1/20/16

Aaron Swartz and copyright wars in the Internet age; Boston Globe, 1/28/16

Academics Want You to Read Their Work for Free; Atlantic, 1/26/16

‘Let’s Play’ enters the public domain as USPTO kills Sony’s trademark attempt; Digital Trends, 1/29/16

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office News, 1/28/16

Pass the Defend Trade Secrets Act; The Hill, 1/27/16

With Corbis Sale, Tiananmen Protest Images Go to Chinese Media Company; New York Times, 1/27/16

Hacking the Patent System: Improved, Expanded Guide to Patent Licensing Alternatives; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), 1/26/16

CHORUS Inks Agreement with NSF, USGS, NIST; Library Journal, 1/21/16