Intellectual Property (IP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Open Movements (OM)

Issues and developments related to IP, AI, and OM. 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). Preorders are available via this webpage: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ethics-information-and-technology-9781440856662/

COPYRIGHTING AI-ASSISTED FILM AND TV COULD GET COMPLICATED; Variety, May 5, 2025

ASU Law launches Wolin Family Center for Intellectual Property Law; ASU News, May 6, 2025

AI of dead Arizona road rage victim addresses killer in court; The Guardian, May 6, 2025

Meta lawsuit poses first big test of AI copyright battle; Financial Times, May 1, 2025

Copyright alone cannot protect the future of creative work; Brookings, May 1, 2025

Ministers to amend data bill amid artists’ concerns over AI and copyright; The Guardian, April 30, 2025

Meta Faces Copyright Reckoning in Authors’ Generative AI Case; Bloomberg Law, April 30, 2025

World Intellectual Property Day, 2025; The White House, April 26, 2025

How to Avoid Ethical Red Flags in Your AI Projects; IEEE Spectrum, April 27, 2025

Crumbl is sued for $24M over music copyright violations; Restaurant Business, April 28, 2025

Ask the ethicist: How to create guardrails for the AI age; WBUR, April 25, 2025

Sydney woman who sold a cartoon cat T-shirt told to pay US$100,000 in Grumpy Cat copyright case; The Guardian, April 25, 2025

U.S. Copyright Office Releases New Copyright Registration Toolkit; U.S. Copyright Office, April 22, 2025

AI and the visual arts: The case for copyright protection; Brookings, April 18, 2025

2025 International IP Index; U.S. Chamber of Commerce, April 15, 2025

This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value”; Vanity Fair, April 15, 2025

Jack Dorsey Says Intellectual Property Law Shouldn't Exist, and Elon Musk Agrees: 'Delete All IP Law'; Entrepreneur, April 14, 2025

From the courtroom to the notepad: Ian Crosby advocates for fair use; The Daily Mississippian, April 16, 2025

How to Find Copyright Owners For Covers and Samples; HypeBot, April 16, 2025

The philosopher’s machine: my conversation with Peter Singer’s AI chatbot; The Guardian, April 17, 2025

Creators Are Losing the AI Copyright Battle. We Have to Keep Fighting (Guest Column); The Hollywood Reporter, April 16, 2025

When was the last time AI made you laugh? Scenes from the 2025 Summit on AI, Ethics and Journalism; Poynter, April 11, 2025

The real argument artists should be making against AI; Vox, April 16, 2025

Why Musk and Dorsey want to ‘delete all IP law’; The Washington Post, April 15, 2025

Law professors side with authors battling Meta in AI copyright case; TechCrunch, April 11, 2025

Entrance to [Copyright] Paradise Halted by the Human-Authorship Requirement; The National Law Review, April 9, 2025

I’m Not Convinced Ethical Generative AI Currently Exists; Wired, February 20, 2025

A banana taped to a wall? This artist says he did it first. The Supreme Court ignored him.; USA TODAY, April 7, 2025

OpenAI Copyright Suit Consolidation Portends Consistency, Risk; Bloomberg Law, April 8, 2025

List of Books Removed from USNA Library; America's Navy, April 4, 2025