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Kip Currier, PhD, JD, MLIS, is Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information (SCI) at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, where he teaches technology ethics and intellectual property (IP). He regularly blogs on ethics at https://kipcurrierethics.blogspot.com and on IP at https://kipcurriercopyright.blogspot.com.

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Information use is changing rapidly in the digital age, leading to complex intellectual property and ownership issues. Exploring the ethical implications of this new environment, specifically as they relate to information professionals, this text offers guidance on making ethical choices.

Today, professionals spanning all sectors of society face fast-changing information use questions related to Artificial Intelligence, scholarly communication, research practice, teaching pedagogies and platforms, data sharing, knowledge management, entrepreneurial endeavors, and service access and delivery. Further complicating matters are grassroots movements such as open access, open data, and open education.

This wide-ranging and thorough volume surveys historical traditions and principles in ethics and brings readers into the current digital landscape, where ethical issues are often complex and confounding. Covering subjects that range from big data and hacking to surveillance and access, it explores the background of each topic and describes how, where, and why ethical dilemmas arise within it. Through real-life examples, this timely text teaches students and practitioners how to identify an ethical dilemma, provides guidance on how to respond, explains how to separate personal belief from professional responsibility, and discusses how to make exceptions in a principled way.

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Preface
I: Foundations
1 Introduction and Ethical Foundations
2 Ethics Codes and Guardrails
3 Professional Ethics and Character Issues
II: Core Values and Opposing Forces
4 Access and Divides
5 Privacy and Surveillance
6 Intellectual Freedom, Free Speech, and Censorship
7 Accuracy, Misinformation, and Disinformation
III: Intellectual Property Law and Equity Interests
8 Intellectual Property
9 Open Movements and Traditional Knowledge
IV: Technologies and Regulatory Oversight
10 The Internet and Social Media
11 Artificial Intelligence (AI)
12 Emerging Technologies
V: Conclusion
13 Codas and Continuances
Index
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