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/

Patent office workers bilked the government of millions by playing hooky, watchdog finds; Washington Post, 8/31/16

President Obama to Host White House Frontiers Conference in Pittsburgh; University of Pittsburgh Press Release, 8/30/16

Pennsylvania wades into open data; GCN, 8/26/16

Feds Target 'Predatory' Publishers; Inside Higher Ed, 8/29/16

Sci-Hub Controversy Triggers Publishers’ Critique of Librarian; Library Journal, 8/25/16

Oakland Raiders File Trademark Applications For Las Vegas Raiders; Forbes, 8/25/16

Who is to blame for the EpiPen hike? Drug monopolies – not evil CEOs; Guardian, 8/29/16

Col. Sanders’ Secret KFC Recipe For Fried Chicken May Have Just Been Revealed Online; Huffington Post, 8/26/16

Now anyone can access NASA-funded research; Quartz, 8/20/16

Patent office launches Cancer Moonshot challenge; FedScoop, 8/22/16

U.S. lawmakers demand investigation of $100 price hike of lifesaving EpiPens; Washington Post, 8/23/16

The Difference between Copyright Infringement and Plagiarism—and Why It Matters; Library Journal, 8/17/16

Britain’s Paper Tigers; New York Times, 8/10/16

Sydney Morning Herald Faces Uncertain Print Future in Australia; New York Times, 8/17/16

Stand Up for Open Access. Stand Up for Diego.; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), 8/9/16

The Acceleration of Open Access; Inside Higher Ed, 8/18/16

Olympic lawyers go for gold in trademark protection; CNBC, 8/18/16

EpiPen’s 500 Percent Price Hike Leaves Patients Scrambling; Huffington Post, 8/18/16

The Downfall Of Invention: A Broken Patent System; Huffington Post, 8/16/16

WATCH: X-MEN BATTLE THE AVENGERS IN EPIC SUPERCUT TRAILER; Comic Book Resources, 8/15/16

Fan-fiction writers can't help wondering what if?; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8/14/16

Alleged video pirate Kim Dotcom loses in U.S. appeals court; Politico, 8/12/16

John Oliver has given us the best defense of newspapers ever; Washington Post, 8/9/16

John Oliver’s newspaper rant hits a nerve: “We’ve watched it being not-so-slowly destroyed by forces beyond our control”; Salon, 8/10/16

Journalism: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO); HBO via YouTube, 8/7/16

Ed Sheeran sued for copyright infringement for second time this year; Washington Post, 8/10/16

There’s No Such Thing as Innocuous Personal Data; Slate, 8/8/16

Failure to Register LeBron James' Tattoo as Copyright Proves Costly; Hollywood Reporter, 8/2/16

Britain’s scientists are freaking out over Brexit; Washington Post, 7/31/16

Marvel Artist Complains After 'X-Men: Apocalypse' Giveaway Uses His Work; Hollywood Reporter,

Milton Glaser Still Hearts New York; New York Times, 7/29/16

Bowser’s $9,000 in Trump change; Washington Post, 7/29/16

The Blog That Disappeared; New York Times, 7/29/16

Photographer sues Getty Images for $1 billion after she's billed for her own photo; Los Angeles Times, 7/29/16

Stephen Colbert Officially Retired “Stephen Colbert” Because Corporate Lawyers Made Him; Slate, 7/28/16

A Presidential Priority: Unleashing Open Data; Huffington Post, 7/21/16

Uncle Sam Wants You — Or at Least Your Genetic and Lifestyle Information; New York Times, 7/23/16

"Tablet v. Newspaper"; Bizarro, 7/11/16

Wellcome Trust launches open-access publishing venture; Nature, 7/6/16

EFF sues US government, saying copyright rules on DRM are unconstitutional; Ars Technica, 7/22/16

Why Do Women Inventors Hold So Few Patents?; Atlantic, 7/21/16

Publisher Seeks to Overcome Copyright Suit Over Famous Civil Rights Song; Hollywood Reporter, 7/18/16

Political Art in a Fractious Election Year; New York Times, 7/17/16

Zika Data From the Lab, and Right to the Web; New York Times, 7/18/16

Pittsburgh's Digital Dream Labs sues British toy company over patent; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 6/24/16

Are MOOCs Forever?; Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/14/16

"Jail for Self-Publishing Novels"; Bizarro, 7/16/16

The Fight for the "Right to Repair"; Smithsonian.com, 7/13/16

Pokemon Go spurs lawyers to stop and consider legal issues; ABA Journal, 7/13/16

Meet Your New Librarian of Congress; Smithsonian.com, 7/14/16