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

Statement by President Joe Biden on the Omicron COVID-⁠19 Variant; The White House, November 26, 2021

Biden pressed to support intellectual property waiver for COVID-19 vaccines; Marketplace, November 26, 2021

Nursing unions around world call for UN action on Covid vaccine patents; The Guardian, November 29, 2021

Frustrated by vaccine inequity, a South African lab rushes to replicate Moderna’s shot; The Washington Post, November 28, 2021

193 countries adopt first-ever global agreement on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence; UN News, November 25, 2021

After COVID boom, ebook aggregators face licensing questions from Congress; The Verge, November 18, 2021

E-commerce and China: Strategies for fighting online counterfeits, Part 2; United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), December 2, 2021

Music Copyright Value Hit $32.5B in 2020, With Streaming Taking Its Biggest Slice Yet; Billboard, November 18, 2021

Barbara Ringer’s Legacy of Fighting for Equity at the Copyright Office: An Interview with Amanda Levendowski; Library of Congress, November 19, 2021

Will the Supreme Court Finally Declare Copyright Infringement As “Theft”?; The Hollywood Reporter, November 17, 2021

Pfizer agrees to let other companies make its COVID-19 pill; Associated Press, November 16, 2021

Spider-Man trademark battle unfolds in comics as a real life copyright dispute brews in real life; gamesradar+, November 10, 2021

International exchange: Promoting the inclusion of women in intellectual property; United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), November 16, 2021 4 PM - 6 PM ET

The NIH and Moderna Are Fighting Over Who Owns Their Vaccine; Intelligencer, November 10, 2021

Learning the Art of Civil Discourse; Ole Miss University of Mississippi News, October 22, 2021

Copyright Law and Machine Learning for AI: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?; Co-Sponsored by the United States Copyright Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Tuesday, October 26, 2021 10 AM - 3 PM EDT

Difference between copyright and trademark; WYTV, October 15, 2021

‘Star Trek,’ Dr. Seuss Mashup Dispute Ends After 5-Year Legal Journey; The Hollywood Reporter, October 5, 2021

Hey, those are our Kisses! Hershey Co. files trademark lawsuit against cookie maker; Penn Live, September 29, 2021

Marvel Reveals Who Really Owns Iron Man and Mr Fantastic’s First Inventions; Comic Book Resources, October 10, 2021

Peter Parker Losing his Trademark in Amazing Spider-Man #75 (Spoilers); Bleeding Cool, October 6, 2021

Marie Wilcox, Who Saved Her Native Language From Extinction, Dies at 87; The New York Times, October 6, 2021

AI-ethics pioneer Margaret Mitchell on her five-year plan at open-source AI startup Hugging Face; Emerging Tech Brew, October 4, 2021

Ode to Cicadas; Library of Congress, May 24, 2021

A Little-Known Statute Compels Medical Research Transparency. Compliance Is Pretty Shabby.; On The Media, April 21, 2021

Scientific Publishing Is a Joke; The Atlantic, May 6, 2021

US-backed vaccine patent waiver: pros and cons explained; The Conversation, May 6, 2021

Want to borrow that e-book from the library? Sorry, Amazon won’t let you.; The Washington Post, March 10, 2021

Houdini and the Magic of Copyright; Library of Congress, March 24, 2021

Introduction to Intellectual Property; OpenStax, March 2021

The Marrakesh Treaty in Action: Exciting Progress in Access to Published Works for the Blind and Print-Disabled Communities; U.S. Copyright Office, February 22, 2021

Want to Reverse Inequality? Change Intellectual Property Rules.; The Nation, February 8, 2021

The ultimate crash course on protecting Intellectual Property; Lexology, October 13, 2020

A Supreme Court Without RBG May Impact Hollywood's Grip on Intellectual Property; Billboard, September 21, 2020

Judge Rules in Favor of Nicki Minaj in Tracy Chapman Copyright Dispute; Variety, September 16, 2020

Google v. Oracle: Fair Use and the Seventh Amendment; JD Supra, September 15, 2020

Censoring Jon Hamm's Penis Doesn't Violate Copyright Law, Federal Judge Rules; Gizmodo, September 11, 2020

Nicki Minaj-Tracy Chapman copyright battle sets stage for future of music recording; Marketplace, September 14, 2020

When a Right Click Is Wrong; Comstock's Magazine, September 16, 2020

Historic Court Cases That Helped Shape Scope of Copyright Protections; Library of Congress, September 9, 2020