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

USPTO Releases 2018 Performance and Accountability Report; Guest Blog by Chief Financial Officer Tony Scardino, January 31, 2019

The Role Of The Centre For Data Ethics And Innovation - What It Means For The UK; Mondaq, January 22, 2019

So Much TV, Too Little IP Yields Writers Rich Rewards; Variety, January 31, 2019

UN agency finds US, Asian companies seek most AI patents; Associated Press, January 31, 2019

US Trademark Office Approves Application To Register The Shape Of A Burger; Mondaq, January 31, 2019

Game of Life Copyright Dispute Meets 'Day of Reckoning'; Law.com, January 30, 2019

Second China-Bound Apple Car Worker Charged With Data Theft; Bloomberg, January 30, 2019

US hammers Huawei with 23 indictments for alleged trade secret theft, fraud; CNet, January 29, 2019

Video and audio from my closing keynote at Friday's Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain; BoingBoing, January 27, 2019

Copyright Office identifies visual arts copyright problems, solutions; Lexology, January 24, 2019

Shazam! Vs. Captain Marvel: The Bizarre Battle Over a Name; Comic Book Resources, January 27, 2019

How the public domain offers new life to these poetry classics; PBS NewsHour, January 21, 2019

Viral Is Still Copyrighted, Even to Learn Where Trump Is; Lexology, January 18, 2019

Trademark Fight Over Vulgar Term’s ‘Phonetic Twin’ Heads to Supreme Court; The New York Times, January 21, 2019

Autocomplete suggestions: Did you mean 'copyright infringement'?; Lexology, January 10, 2019

Trump’s bizarre statement on China dishonors us all; The Washington Post, January 11, 2019

A Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain by Internet Archive and Creative Commons: January 25, 2019

Will the world embrace Plan S, the radical proposal to mandate open access to science papers?; Science, January 3, 2019

January 1, 2019 is (finally) Public Domain Day: Works from 1923 are open to all!; Center for the Study of the Public Domain, January 2019

Supreme Court to decide if trademark protection can be denied to ‘scandalous’ brands; The Washington Post, January 4, 2019

Freed From Copyright, These Classic Works Are Yours To Adapt; NPR, January 5, 2019

'The drought is over': mass US copyright expiry brings flood of works into public domain; The Guardian, January 2, 2019

We Are! ... Happy Valley? Penn State applies for trademark on moniker; The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 2, 2019

Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain—here’s what that means; Ars Technica, January 1, 2019

Why Mickey Mouse’s 1998 copyright extension probably won’t happen again; Ars Technica, January 8, 2018

New Life for Old Classics, as Their Copyrights Run Out; The New York Times, December 29, 2018

China's Supreme Court to take on intellectual property cases; Reuters, December 29, 2018

Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos. That’s a Problem for Video Game Developers.; The New York Times, December 27, 2018

Disney trademarked ‘Hakuna Matata.’ A new petition demands the company drop it.; The Washington Post, December 19, 2018

Hakuna Matata™? Can Disney Actually Trademark That?; The New York Times, December 20, 2018

Video, Andy Sheehan, CBS KDKA; Ohio Clothing Company Seeks To Trademark ‘Yinzer’ For T-Shirts, CBS KDKA, December 21, 2018

For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain; Smithsonian Magazine, January 2019

The Second Circuit Shuts Down Resale of Digital Music Files in Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi, Inc., Lexology, December 18, 2018

Did a Typo Accidentally Make Rudolph's TV Special Public Domain?; Comic Book Resources, December 15, 2018

Gift Guide For The Intellectual Property Geek; Above The Law, December 13, 2018

It’s not a trade war with China. It’s a tech war.; The Washington Post, December 14, 2018

Indigenous Knowledge Misappropriation: The Case Of The Zia Sun Symbol Explained At WIPO; Intellectual Property Watch, December 11, 2018

Fortnight [sic] Sued Over Swiped Dance Move; Forbes, December 11, 2018

Drama in South Africa Leads to Passing Fair Use; infojustice.org, December 6, 2018

What Is Intellectual Property, and Does China Steal It?; Bloomberg, December 4, 2018

Controlled Digital Lending Concept Gains Ground; Library Journal, November 15, 2018

'The Pirate Bay of Science' Continues to Get Attacked Around the World; Motherboard, December 3, 2018

Copyright transfer, assignment and licensing in the United States; Lexology, October 29, 2018

3 Types of Documents Every Company Needs to Have in Place; Lexology, October 23, 2018

Supreme Court hands Fox News another win in copyright case against TVEyes monitoring service; The Washington Post, December 3, 2018