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

Behold, a legal brief written in Klingon; Washington Post, 4/29/16

FOX WILL NOT PRESENT IN SDCC'S HALL H DUE TO PIRACY CONCERNS; Comic Book Resources, 4/28/16

Celebrating American Ingenuity and Innovation on World Intellectual Property Day; The White House, 4/26/16

On IP Protection, USTR Finds Fault With China, India … And Switzerland?; Intellectual Property Watch, 4/27/16

Copyright Case Victor Returns to Supreme Court for Legal Fees; New York Times, 4/25/16

Post-Gazette loses court fight to block state agencies from deleting emails; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/26/16

Ohio State Trademarks Name of Ex-Football Coach Woody Hayes; Associated Press via New York Times, 4/22/16

Chief Justice Calls U.S. Patent Challenge Process Bizarre; Reuters via New York Times, 4/2/5/16

Cassandra Clare Created a Fantasy Realm and Aims to Maintain Her Rule; New York Times, 4/23/16

Prince; RobRogers.com, 4/24/16

Canadian journal breaks new ground in open access science; Globe and Mail, 4/12/16

Is Open Access To Research Biden's Answer To Curing Cancer?; Forbes, 4/22/16

E.U. urged to free all scientific papers by 2020; Science, 4/14/16

Pennsylvania Announces Open Data Portal; Government Technology, 4/18/16

Gov. Wolf signs open data executive order; Technical.ly, 4/18/16

USPTO appeals to Supreme Court for ruling on racially tinged trademarks; Ars Technica, 4/22/16

Study: Lawsuits Down, But Non-Practicing Entities Buying Patents At 'Steady Rate'; Forbes, 4/21/16

Google Case Ends, but Copyright Fight Goes On; Publishers Weekly, 4/22/16

Librarian of Congress Nominee Carla Hayden Confirmation Hearing; C-SPAN, 4/20/16

Why U Can’t Find Prince’s Music Online; Slate, 4/21/16

The Prince of Copyright Enforcement; Wall Street Journal, 4/21/16

Challenge to Google Books Is Declined by Supreme Court; New York Times, 4/18/16

Obama’s Secrecy Problem; Slate, 4/15/16

Artist Says Brazilian Protesters Copied His Giant Rubber Duck; New York Times, 4/1/16

Lifting the Patent Barrier to New Drugs and Energy Sources; New York Times, 4/12/16

‘We Shall Overcome’ Copyright May Be Overcome One Day; New York Times, 4/12/16

Making the Most of Clinical Trial Data; New York Times, 4/12/16

Led Zeppelin members face trial in ‘Stairway to Heaven’ copyright infringement lawsuit; Washington Post, 4/12/16

Obama claimed to want transparency. His actions suggest the opposite; Guardian, 3/9/16

(Legal) Moonshiner and University Battle Over Rights to ‘Kentucky’; New York Times, 4/9/16

Digital Rights Groups: DMCA Reform Should Target Takedown Abuse, Errors; Intellectual Property Watch, 4/3/16

The most important Obama nominee no one’s talking about; Washington Post, 3/25/16

Wikimedia’s art database violates copyright law, rules Sweden’s highest court; Ars Technica.com, 4/5/16

Beyoncé sues Texas company over clothing with 'Feyoncé' label; Guardian, 4/5/16

GSK Eases IP Rights For Poorest Countries, Considers Patent Pooling For Cancer; Intellectual Property Watch, 3/31/16

Sheila Corrall and Kip Currier win LIBER Innovation Award; 45th Annual Conference of LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries)

Speed beats trademarks on social media; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3/29/16

Worlds collide in ‘Avengers vs. Justice League’ fan trailer; ComicBookResources.com, 4/1/16

GlaxoSmithKline to 'drop patents in poor countries for better drug access'; BBC News, 3/31/16

Landmark study on the effects of copyright takedown abuse on online free expression; BoingBoing.net, 3/30/16

Oracle will seek a staggering $9.3 billion in 2nd trial against Google; ArsTechnica.com, 3/29/16

31st Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference; American Bar Association (ABA), Bethesda, Maryland, April 6-8, 2016

Open Data Roundtables: Using Government Data as a National Resource; Huffington Post, 3/24/16

This open-access picture book from the ‘70s shows how glorious the space race really was; Science Alert, 3/24/16

The Blue Wars: A Report from the Front; Harvard Law Record, 3/21/16

Donald Trump Campaign Attacked by Nature Photographers in Copyright Lawsuit; Hollywood Reporter, 3/24/16

McDonald's Wants to Trademark a 'Simple' New Slogan; Fortune, 3/25/16

Reuters; Gilead ordered to pay Merck $200 million in hepatitis C drug patent dispute; Reuters, 3/24/16

To boldly go where no copyright suit has gone before; Washington Post, 3/24/16

White House tech office to co-host open data roundtables; FedScoop, 3/22/16