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

Three things to know about how the US Congress might regulate AI; MIT Technology Review, July 3, 2023

Google hit with class-action lawsuit over AI data scraping; Reuters, July 11, 2023

Over 150 top execs fear Europe will create a ‘critical productivity gap’ with the U.S. if the EU overregulates A.I.; Fortune, June 30, 2023

EU AI Act: first regulation on artificial intelligence; European Parliament News, June 14, 2023

Defining Data: Improving Terminology Around Generative AI Models; IP Watchdog, June 21, 2023

What Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Meta really means | The AI Beat; Venture Beat, July 10, 2023

Crocs and rival footwear maker Joybees clash over trade secrets in US court; Reuters, July 7, 2023

Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement; The Verge, July 9, 2023

Poet and translator to sue British Museum for copyright and moral rights infringement; The Art Newspaper, July 7, 2023

IP Considerations in Protecting Autonomous Vehicle Software with Patents and Copyrights; National Law Review, July 6, 2023

Copyright Infringement Suit Involving Nirvana and Dante’s ‘Inferno’ Illustration Heads to the UK; ArtNews, July 5, 2023

Why Does the U.S. Copyright Office Require Libraries to Lie to Users about Their Fair Use Rights? They Won’t Say.; The Scholarly Kitchen, July 5, 2023

Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads; Semafor, July 6, 2023

'Peaky Blinders' creators blast DeSantis for copyright violation in controversial ad; UPI, 7/5/23

The copyright battles against OpenAI have begun; Quartz, July 6. 2023

Trump Lawyers Argue Copyright Suit Against Woodward, S&S Should Proceed; Publishers Weekly, July 3, 2023

Little-known N.J. baby retailer tentatively wins rights to Buy Buy Baby's IP for $15.5 million; CNBC via NBC, July 3, 2023

Generative AI in Games Will Create a Copyright Crisis; Wired, July 4, 2023

Motion Picture Association and Korea Copyright Protection Partner to Quash Asia-Pacific Digital Piracy; Variety, July 3, 2023

“I Have a Problem With the Stealing of My Material”: A Common Rallying Cry Emerges On AI; The Hollywood Reporter, July 3, 2023

ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Accused of Misusing Personal, Copyrighted Data; The San Francisco Standard, June 30, 2023

Bestselling authors Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay sue OpenAI over copyright infringement; The Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2023

AMP v. Myriad: The Fight to Take Back Our Genes; ACLU, June 13, 2023

Are Samples Copyright Free?; Hot New Hip Hop, June 30, 2023

Jeff Koons, sculptor each claim advantage after Warhol copyright decision; Reuters, June 30, 2023

Copyright Office: Sorry, but you probably can’t protect your AI-generated art; Fast Company, June 30, 2023

Overstock Sees a Future in Calling Itself Bed Bath & Beyond; The New York Times, June 28, 2023

Libraries announces July workshops for scholarly communications, copyright; Penn State, June 29, 2023

U.S. Copyright Office Generative AI Event: Three Key Takeaways; IP Watchdog, June 29, 2023

Authors Sue OpenAI Claiming Mass Copyright Infringement of Hundreds of Thousands of Novels; The Hollywood Reporter, June 29, 2023

Generative AI’s Intellectual Property Problem Heats Up AIs producing art or inventions have to navigate a hostile legal landscape, and a consensus is far away; IEEE Spectrum, June 13, 2023

AI Can Actually Help Protect Creativity and Copyrights: Guest Post by Reservoir Music CEO Golnar Khosrowshahi; Variety, June 28, 2023

Copyright Office Refuses to ‘Register Works Entirely Generated by AI’; Peta Pixel, June 28, 2023

International Copyright Issues and Artificial Intelligence; U.S. Copyright Office, Webinar: Wednesday, July 26, 2023, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. eastern time

US judge facing competency probe asks court to block her suspension; Reuters, June 27, 2023

Colleagues want a 95-year-old judge to retire. She’s suing them instead.; The Washington Post, June 5, 2023

Using AI to Create a Work – Copyright Protection and Infringement; JD Supra, June 27, 2023

Taco John’s responds to Taco Bell’s Taco Tuesday lawsuit; CNN, June 26, 2023

Open Education Week shines light on implementing UNESCO OER Recommendation best practices; UNESCO, March 20, 2023

ChatGPT and Generative AI Are Hits! Can Copyright Law Stop Them?; Bloomberg Law, June 26, 2023

The Copyright Claims Board Celebrates Its First Year; Library of Congress Blogs, Copyright Creativity At Work, June 26, 2023

Fair use protection against copyright infringement claims just got smaller; Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 24, 2023

US cyber ambassador says China knows how to steal its way to dominance of cloud and AI; The Register, June 23, 2023

Webinar: Registration Guidance for Works Containing AI-generated Content; U.S. Copyright Office, Wednesday, June 28, 2023 2 PM EDT