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

Avengers IP, Assemble: the wild, circuitous path to Marvel getting its own brands back; Polygon, March 23, 2019

What Is the Difference Between a State and Federal Trademark?; New York Law Journal, Law.com, March 15, 2019

Open access task force releases draft recommendations; MIT News, March 18, 2019

Miss Vanjie! Miss Vanjie!: What RuPaul’s Drag Race Can Teach Us About Fair Use Under Copyright; Lexology, March 15, 2019

What does copyright infringement sound like?; The Washington Post, March 4, 2019

'I can get any novel I want in 30 seconds': can book piracy be stopped?; The Guardian, March 6, 2019

The Marines don’t want you to see what happens when propaganda stops and combat begins; The Washngton Post, March 15, 2019

Review: 'The Inventor' is a coolly appalling portrait of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal; The Los Angeles Times, March 14, 2019

We Are! Not happy! U.S. Patent office frowns on Penn State trademark request; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 14, 2019

A price to be paid for open-access academic publishing; The Guardian, March 13, 2019

The Guardian view on academic publishing: disastrous capitalism Editorial; March 4, 2019

UC open access fight exposes publishing rip-off: Charging exorbitant fees for journal articles isn’t in the best interests of scientific research, Mercury News, March 6, 2019

Theranos: How a broken patent system sustained its decade-long deception Op-ed: The patent bargain is seriously busted.; Ars Technica, March 4, 2019

How the patent office's lax standards gave Elizabeth Holmes the BS patents she needed to defraud investors and patients; Boing Boing, March 4, 2019

IP 101: Intellectual Property Management In The Digital Age; Forbes, March 4, 2019

Supreme Court Clarifies That, Yes, You Have to Register Your Copyright, and No, You Cannot Recover Your Expert Witness Fees in Copyright Cases; Lexology, March 5, 2019

‘Mockingbird’ Producer Reconsiders, Letting Local Plays Go Forward; The New York Times, March 1, 2019

Mongols Biker Club Can Keep Its Logo, Judge Rules; The New York Times, February 28, 2019

A professor is accused of stealing a student's invention to make millions; CNN, March 1, 2019

University of California boycotts publishing giant Elsevier over journal costs and open access; Science, February 28, 2019

Community Theaters Kill 'Mockingbird' Productions After Lawsuit Threat; NPR, March 1, 2019

New Research Study Describes DNDi As A “Commons” For Public Health; Intellectual Property Watch, February 25, 2019

Startup Law A to Z: Intellectual Property; TechCrunch, February 25, 2019

A Century-Old Debate Over Science Patents Is Repeating Itself Today; Slate, February 25, 2019

Dentist’s failed suit demonstrates a copyright’s bite needs more than teeth; Lexology, February 18, 2019

The worst possible version of the EU Copyright Directive has sparked a German uprising; BoingBoing, February 18, 2019

Entrepreneurs Tell USPTO Director Iancu: Patent Trolls Aren’t Just “Monster Stories”; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), February 14, 2019

The Scouts Teach Us All a Lesson About Trademark Law; Forbes, February 12, 2019

Lack of women inventors could hurt innovation, US patent office says; CNet, February 12, 2019

Colorado Open Scholars Summit to examine ‘Open Access in Tenure and Promotion’ March 1; Colorado State University, February 9, 2019

Disney lobbies Congress to change copyright laws; The Highlander, University of California Riverside, February 12, 2019

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