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

Steel City Con 2018, Monroeville, Pennsylvania (Greater Pittsburgh Area), April 13-15, 2018

Transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s Senate hearing; Transcript courtesy of Bloomberg Government via The Washington Post, April 10, 2018

The EU's latest copyright proposal is so bad, it even outlaws Creative Commons licenses; BoingBoing, April 11, 2018

Intellectual Property and China: Is China Stealing American IP?; Stanford Law School, April 10, 2018

British Book Publishers Fear Brexit Will Bring a U.S. Invasion; The New York Times, April 13, 2018

Drug Company ‘Shenanigans’ to Block Generics Come Under Federal Scrutiny; The New York Times, April 14, 2018

A Landslide of Classic Art Is About to Enter the Public Domain; The Atlantic, April 8, 2018

Former law student obtains $6.45M judgment in revenge porn case; ABA Journal, April 11, 2018

The Defend Trade Secrets Act: Five Key Lessons; JDSupra, April 10, 2018

Pennsylvania Federal Court Explores the Contours of the DTSA; The National Law Review, April 10, 2018

More Patent Trolls Are Targeting Startups. Here's What You Can Do.; Entrepreneur, April 10, 2018

China asserts firm grip on research data; Science, April 9, 2018

EU copyright reforms draw fire from scientists; Nature, April 3, 2018

European Copyright Law Isn't Great. It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse.; Electronic Frontier foundation, April 10, 2018

Disney Can’t Use ‘Marvel’ in Disneyland Avengers Theme Park; Comic Book Resources, April 8, 2018

China And Intellectual Property; NPR, Weekend Edition Saturday, April 7, 2018

NBA Player LeBron James And Alabama Football Coach Nick Saban Squabble Over Copyright; Above The Law, April 5, 2018

THE TRICKY ETHICS OF THE NFL'S NEW OPEN DATA POLICY; Wired, March 29, 2018

Sweet settlement: Cookie shop trademark suit resolved; RichmondBizSense, March 29, 2018

RIP John Sulston, open science hero and father of the Human Genome Project; BoingBoing, March 9, 2018

Judge Refuses to Dismiss Copyright Lawsuit Over LeBron James Tattoo in 'NBA 2K'; Hollywood Reporter, March 30, 2018

Open access to scientific publications must become a reality by 2020 - Robert-Jan Smits; Horizon: The EU Research & Innovation Magazine, March 23, 2018

UC libraries launch tool to help achieve open access; Berkeley Library News, March 21, 2018

Responsible Enforcement: How To Handle Trademark Disputes Effectively; Forbes, March 15, 2018

Why an Indian hotel startup is taking the difficult route of filing patents; Quartz, March 28, 2018

Google loses Android battle and could owe Oracle billions of dollars; CNN Money, March 27, 2018

Illuminating the Profession: Women in Copyright; Landslide, A Publication of the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law, March/April 2018

What Stake China Has In American Intellectual Property; All Things Considered, NPR, March 23, 2018

What’s Intellectual Property and Does China Steal It?; Bloomberg, March 22, 2018

Celebrating Fair Use Week: An Interview With Peter Jaszi; Above The Law, March 1, 2018

How much has the US lost from China's IP theft?; CNN, March 23, 2018

We Asked 7 Lawyers to Untangle the Broadway Fight Over ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’; New York Times, March 23, 2018

4/19/18 Mark T. Banner Award Luncheon at 33rd Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference