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- World Copyright Summit 2009
Ronald Reagan Center
Tuesday, June 9 at 9:00am - STM 2009 Spring Conference
Le Meridien Cambridge
Tuesday, April 28 at 6:00pm - National Art Education Associa...
Minneapolist Convention Center
Friday, April 17 at 9:00am - PACA 2009 "Best Practices" Sym...
Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel
Friday, April 17 at 9:15am - College Art Association
Los Angeles Convention Center
Wednesday, February 25 at 9:00am - Association of Writers & Writi...
Hilton Chicago
Wednesday, February 11 at 9:00am - Michigan Music Conference
DeVos Place and Amway Grand Plaza H...
Thursday, January 22 at 9:00am - The Art of Change
1021 7th Street, NW
Tuesday, January 20 at 8:00pm - ImagingUSA
Phoenix Convention Center
Sunday, January 11 at 12:00pm - P2P Media Summit at the Consum...
Las Vegas Convention Center
Wednesday, January 7 at 2:00pm
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...
Artists are passionate people. That passion drives them to create endlessly despite, sometimes, economic and social setbacks. That passion also gives them the voice to speak up for issues that they find important, such as human-trafficking, domestic violence, or their own rights...
On Sunday night the venerable CBS news show “60 Minutes” did a segment on motion picture piracy. To those of us working actively in this space, it was pretty accurate but not new. It...
Just when you think the dangers of file-sharing are slipping out of the headlines, those silly buggers pop right back onto the front page. The latest on this front blared across the cover of The Washington Post this morning, with news that dozens of U.S...
“We’re returning to a prior age, one where the economics of music are about performances, not recordings. You know, copyright on recorded music is only about 100 years old.” So said a professor at a dinner I attended the other night. I li...
Copyright Alliance
Did you know? It was predicted that the film Sideways would have an impact of 15 percent on tourism revenue to Santa Barbara County, California over a four year period of time. - http://www.mpaa.org/press_releases/mpa%2
Copyright Alliance
Did you know? According to figures released in 2004, a new book of fiction is published in the United States every 30 minutes. - http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/18/books/
Like all creative industries, the photography industry is undergoing significant change. Technologies have been of benefit to professional photographers by easing legal distribution and creating new models for licensing, and have helped them to better express themselves in their art...
Copyright Alliance Did you know? Young people who participate in the arts for at least 3 hours on 3 days each week are 4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement. - "Living the Arts through Language + Learning: A Report on Community-based Youth Organizations," Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University and Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching, Americans for the Arts Monograph, November 1998
Today we’ll look at the meme that says artists should no longer try to make money off of their works, because in a virtual world they have no ownership of those works. ...
Copyright Alliance Did you know? A typical professional photographer will produce more than 20,000 separate images each year. - Survey conducted by the Professional Photographers of America
Call me a Luddite, call me behind the times, call me out of step with consumers (although I too am one), but like many folks of a certain age it’s becoming more difficult for me when the familiar becomes unfamiliar. ...
Several weeks ago I was visiting my hometown of Hoboken, NJ for the weekend. While there, someone mentioned that the Hoboken Arts and Music Festival would be taking place that very Sunday (September 29, 2009)...
