You wouldn’t steal a car. Then why would you steal a movie? Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement released an anti-piracy PSA. Is it effectively using humor to shed light on the issue of piracy? Or is it just another sensationalized piracy PSA? Click through to check it out and tell us what you think.

Biomimetic inventions seek to replicate the functions of nature in man-made design solutions. But functional language is not enough to adequately describe these novel inventions because the functions that they perform come from nature.

Watson may be eyeing your job. That is, if he (it?) had an eye. The IBM supercomputer bested Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on Jeopardy! last week, leading many to ponder: what’s next?
Mastering Jeopardy was …

This video was created by Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Copyright education in our society is vital to both encouraging creative expression and …

Earlier this month, Senator Charles Schumer (a Democrat unsurprisingly from fashion-capital New York) introduced the Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act (S. 3728) to the delight of many fashion industry players and the dismay …

Okay, we get it. Copyright is complicated and publishers must protect their investments from infringement.
But sometimes, well, publishers don’t have to be such jerks about it.
This headline just about says it all:
A young UK girl …

This is a test of the video section of the IP Brief. It is also an interesting discussion with Google’s CEO about IP.