PHOENIX, ARIZONA — Greetings from the fantastic metropolis (my home town) that in one week will host the NFC championship game. (Go Cardinal Nation!) I’m here attending the Imaging USA conference sponsored by one of our founding members, the Professional Photographers of America. This isn’t really a policy conference; it’s more on the art and [...]

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – That headline shouldn’t be surprising, right? Well, some opponents of copyright law like to find musicians who for various reasons aren’t seeking to profit from sound recordings (that is certainly their choice under the rights they are given as creators) and extrapolate from that the conclusion that no recording artist should [...]

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA –A warning, fair readers, this entry will address the issue of network neutrality. Those who think too much digital ink has been spilled on that topic are free to move on. For the rest of you, before we get to the main course let me serve up an appetizer involving artists. It [...]

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — The 111th Congress began yesterday, and at least among the circles I’m traveling in out here at the Consumer Electronics Show, there’s a buzz about how copyright will play out in the new Congress and the new administration. The consensus at the P2P Media Summit here hosted by the Distributed Computing [...]

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard somebody (including CEA President Gary Shapiro) say artists can compete with free, I would be richer than any artist who ever tried to sell his work on a peer-to-peer network. But this troublesome meme (you can occasionally compete with free, as [...]