intellectual property

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These days, the upsurge in streaming television and its hunger for content has made books an even more ubiquitous source of intellectual property for the small screen.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Barrow also had his account suspended by Facebook on the grounds he was violating intellectual property rules.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Sulzberger didn’t mince words on the issue, calling what AI companies do “brazen theft” of new organizations’ intellectual property, in a speech earlier this week.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

AI companies' "hijacking of the public square is made possible by the original sin that animates their A.I. products -- a brazen theft of intellectual property that has occurred at an unprecedented scale," said A.G.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

It did not occur to Browne that the notion of intellectual property owed as much to Columbus as to the printing press.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton