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

Publishers, journalists, and film producers attack ‘fundamentally flawed’ plan for enforcing Europe’s new AI law; Fortune, March 28, 2025

L.J. Smith, Author of ‘Vampire Diaries’ Book Series, Dies at 66; The New York Times, March 26, 2025

ChatGPT's new image generator blurs copyright lines; Axios, March 28, 2025

Judge allows 'New York Times' copyright case against OpenAI to go forward; NPR, March 27, 2025

Doctors Told Him He Was Going to Die. Then A.I. Saved His Life.; The New York Times, March 20, 2025

Richard Osman urges writers to ‘have a good go’ at Meta over breaches of copyright; The Guardian, March 25, 2025

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI; The Atlantic, March 20, 2025

Anthropic wins early round in music publishers' AI copyright case; Reuters, March 26, 2025

Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo and More Than 400 Hollywood Names Urge Trump to Not Let AI Companies ‘Exploit’ Copyrighted Works; Variety, March 17, 2025

How to tell when AI models infringe copyright; The Washington Post, March 24, 2024

Should AI be treated the same way as people are when it comes to copyright law? ; The Hill, March 24, 2025

The Perils of ‘Free’ Information; Cato Institute, Spring 2025

AI firms push to use copyrighted content freely; Axios, March 20, 2025

Hollywood creatives urge government to defend copyright laws against AI; Los Angeles Times, March 18, 2025

DC Circuit rules AI-generated work ineligible for copyright; Courthouse News Service, March 18, 2025

The AI Copyright Battle: Why OpenAI And Google Are Pushing For Fair Use; Forbes, March 15, 2025

OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use; Ars Technica, March 13, 2025

French publishers and authors sue Meta over copyright works used in AI training; AP, March 12, 2025

The Copyright Office takes on the sticky issue of artificial intelligence; Federal News Network, March 11, 2025

Judge says Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder; The Register, March 11, 2025

Hell is Clearing Permissions: Looking for Lifelines and Deliverance [5,000th post since this blog started in 2008]; IP, AI & OM, March 8, 2025

Prioritise artists over tech in AI copyright debate, MPs say; The Guardian, February 26, 2025

An AI Maker Was Just Found Liable for Copyright Infringement. What Does This Portend for Content Creators and AI Makers?; The Federalist Society, February 25, 2025

Jeff Bezos is muzzling the Washington Post’s opinion section. That’s a death knell; The Guardian, February 26, 2025