
There remains a stubbornness out there among some Internet users, a sense of entitlement to enjoying someone else’s creativity without payment to the creator. In this Chicago Sun-Times story by Kara Spak, Ms. Spak quotes a student at the U. ...

This blog was written by Michelle Gagnon, a crime fiction writer. The blog was originally posted on The Kill Zone, and is reprinted with permission from the author...

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Did you know? There are currently more than 75,000 direct jobs in D.C.’s creative sector, which make up more than 10 percent of the city’s overall employment. - http://www.jobfetch.com/blog/washington- dc-art-jobs/

What a thrilling week to be a part of the Copyright Alliance team! Just a couple of short months ago, when I began here as a intern, the Copyright Alliance’s Letter to the President hadn’t yet been launched, and planning for the third annual EXPOnential was in its very early stages. No...

An impromptu jam session ensued on Tuesday at the Copyright Alliance’s EXPOnential between two musicians: Jonathan Ifergan and Margot MacDonald. Photo credit: Renee Bouchard The two had met for the first time just the day before to deliver the artists’ letter to the White House. Up...

Innovators from across copyright industries today gathered on Capitol Hill to provide a peek at new entertainment and educational products and talk about the importance of copyright to fostering creative new iterations of content...

A delegation of emerging artists in The Copyright Alliance’s grassroots network of creators today delivered to the White House a letter signed by more than 11,000 artists nationwide. The letter asks President Obama and Vice President Biden to pursue policies supportive of artists’ rights. ...

Copyright Alliance ONLY ONE DAY NOW! Tuesday is the 3rd Annual Copyright Alliance EXPOnential on Capitol Hill! Stop by our noon panel with incredible new consumer-friendly business models (with Rep. Smith) and our traditional trade show 5-7 pm with more innovations (and Rep. Conyers)! For more and to RSVP: http://bit.ly/1sDNw3
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If you’d like to get a glimpse of the art scene in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City all in one evening, then you should stop by the Copyright Alliance’s EXPOnential on Tuesday where artists from each of these cities will be discussing their work and their careers. Th...

I had the pleasure of attending an interesting conference yesterday hosted by the Institute for Policy Innovation on broadband policy, a timely topic here in D.C...

Do I have a right to obtain music by The Beatles in any format I want? That is the question that one needs to ask when deciding how to view the decision by the remaining Beatles and key rightsholders to rule out certain forms of digital distribution. L...

A key part of the copyright debate is that copyright somehow inhibits innovation. Yet if you look around, innovation has been occurring and continues to occur at a dizzying pace. Hype quickly follows that innovation, and assumptions surround each new innovation...

I had the pleasure of attending yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for President Obama’s choice to be the nation’s first Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC), the very capable Victoria Espinel. Th...

Encouraging words yesterday from Victoria Espinel at her Senate hearing to be the first IP Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) in the White House, a position created last year by the PRO-IP Act...














