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

My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" was published on Nov. 13, 2025. Purchases can be made via Amazon and this Bloomsbury webpage: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ethics-information-and-technology-9781440856662/

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?; Simon Willison's Weblog, March 5, 2026

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 Simon Willison's Weblog ;  Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code? " Can a model tr...

‘AN IMPORTANT STEP’: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ADOPTS REPORT ON COPYRIGHT AND GENERATIVE AI; Billboard, March 11, 2026

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Lars Brandle  , Billboard;  ‘AN IMPORTANT STEP’: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ADOPTS REPORT ON COPYRIGHT AND GENERATIVE AI "Two years after the ...

Americans Didn’t Panic About the Telephone. We Didn’t Need To.; The New York Times, March 10, 2026

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Andrew Heisel , The New York Times;  Americans Didn’t Panic About the Telephone. We Didn’t Need To. " The telephone wrought great chang...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement; Axios, March 10, 2026

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Sara Fischer, Axios;  Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement " How it works :   Gracenote employs hundreds of e...

Celebrating the Public Domain; ABA, January 29, 2026

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  Jennifer Jenkins and  James Boyle , ABA ;  Celebrating the Public Domain " How does the public domain feed creativity? Here are just ...

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work; The Guardian, March 10, 2026

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Dan Milmo , The Guardian;  Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work " Thousands of authors includi...

OpenAI robotics leader resigns over concerns about Pentagon AI deal; NPR, March 8, 2026

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  Willem Marx  , NPR;  OpenAI robotics leader resigns over concerns about Pentagon AI deal " A senior member of OpenAI's robotics t...

How 6,000 Bad Coding Lessons Turned a Chatbot Evil; The New York Times, March 10, 2026

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  Dan Kagan-Kans  , The New York Times;  How 6,000 Bad Coding Lessons Turned a Chatbot Evil " The journal Nature in January published a...

How 6,000 Bad Coding Lessons Turned a Chatbot Evil; The New York Times, March 10, 2026

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  Dan Kagan-Kans  , The New York Times;  How 6,000 Bad Coding Lessons Turned a Chatbot Evil " The journal Nature in January published a...
Sunday, March 8, 2026

Anthropic’s Ethical Stand Could Be Paying Off; The Atlantic, March 7, 2026

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Ken Harbaugh , The Atlantic;  Anthropic’s Ethical Stand Could Be Paying Off "The events of the past week reminded me of my early days a...

Celebrating 250 years of discovery, creativity, and enterprise; United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), March 2026

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United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), March 2026;  Celebrating 250 years of discovery, creativity, and enterprise   " In 1...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

Publishers Charge Anna’s Archive with Copyright Infringement; Publishers Weekly, March 6, 2026

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Jim Milliot    , Publishers Weekly;  Publishers Charge Anna’s Archive with Copyright Infringement " A group of publishers including the...

Iceland Defeats Iceland: A U.K. Supermarket Ends a Trademark Dispute; The New York Times, March 5, 2026

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Jenny Gross  , The New York Times;  Iceland Defeats Iceland: A U.K. Supermarket Ends a Trademark Dispute " Iceland, the Nordic nation, ...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Vatican hosts seminar on AI and ethics; Vatican News, March 2, 2026

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  Edoardo Giribaldi , Vatican News;  Vatican hosts seminar on AI and ethics " “An abundance of means and a confusion of ends.” This phr...

A Long-Running AI Copyright Question Gets an Answer as Supreme Court Stays Mum; CNET, March 4, 2026

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Omar Gallaga , CNET ;  A Long-Running AI Copyright Question Gets an Answer as Supreme Court Stays Mum The man behind the AI-generated image ...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Fans value ethics over innovation at AI hologram concerts, new study finds; Phys.org, March 3, 2026

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  University of South Florida  , Phys.org;  Fans value ethics over innovation at AI hologram concerts, new study finds " The recent suc...

Exploring the Library of Congress’ National Screening Room: A vast collection of free online films; WTOP News, March 3, 2026

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Matt Kaufax  | , WTOP News ;  Exploring the Library of Congress’ National Screening Room: A vast collection of free online films " The ...

Trump Administration, in Apparent Reversal, Tries to Continue Fight Against Law Firms; The New York Times, March 3, 2026

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  Michael S. Schmidt , Jonah E. Bromwich  and  Devlin Barrett , The New York Times;  Trump Administration, in Apparent Reversal, Tries to Co...

The Pentagon strongarmed AI firms before Iran strikes – in dark news for the future of ‘ethical AI’; The Conversation, March 1, 2026

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  Bianca Baggiarini ,  Lecturer, International Relations, Deakin University , The Conversation ;  The Pentagon strongarmed AI firms before I...

US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material; Reuters, March 2, 2026

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Blake Brittain , Reuters;  US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material " The   U.S. Supreme Cou...

Nine Law Firms Surrendered. Four Law Firms Won.; The New York Times, March 3, 2026

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  THE EDITORIAL BOARD, THE NEW YORK TIMES ;  Nine Law Firms Surrendered. Four Law Firms Won. " The four law firms that last year chose ...
Monday, March 2, 2026

Everybody’s Talking About AI: Takeaways from the February 20, 2026 Fordham Law Symposium; Lexology, February 26, 2026

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Seyfarth Shaw LLP  -  Owen Wolfe , Lexology;  Everybody’s Talking About AI: Takeaways from the February 20, 2026 Fordham Law Symposium ...

'No ethics at all': the 'cancel ChatGPT' trend is growing after OpenAI signs a deal with the US military; TechRadar,March 1, 2026

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  David Nield   , TechRadar ;  'No ethics at all': the 'cancel ChatGPT' trend is growing after OpenAI signs a deal with the ...
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library; Library of Congress Blogs, February 26, 2026

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Neely Tucker , Library of Congress Blogs;  Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library " The librarians peeled them apar...

An Ohio newspaper has a new star writer. It isn’t human.; The Washington Post, March 1, 2026

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  Will Oremus  and  Scott Nover , The Washington Post;  An Ohio newspaper has a new star writer. It isn’t human. At the 184-year-old Clevela...

OpenAI to work with Pentagon after Anthropic dropped by Trump over company’s ethics concerns; The Guardian, February 28, 2026

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  Adam Gabbatt  and  Dara Kerr , The Guardian;  OpenAI to work with Pentagon after Anthropic dropped by Trump over company’s ethics concerns...
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Kip Currier, PhD, JD
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information.Education: PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences (2007); Juris Doctor (JD), University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences. Member of American Bar Association (ABA), ABA IP Law Section, ABA Science & Technology Section; Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T); Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
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