Oh, deadlines. Yesterday was the new deadline for reply comments at the Federal Communications Commission in their proceeding examining the merits of imposing network neutrality regulations. (Note, being reply comments, it was unavoidable that filings at times reiterated comments in the first round.) As I’ve written before, copyright owners have an interest in how this [...]

Hello everyone—my name is Kathleen, and I am currently the spring intern at the Copyright Alliance. Yesterday was my first World IP Day hosted by the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI), and I was humbled by the number of brilliant and impassioned individuals who attended. When I first arrived, the conference room was surprisingly empty, [...]

WASHINGTON — Join me in celebrating World IP Day, and yes, let’s emphasize the word “World.” Here at the Copyright Alliance we tend to focus on U.S. artists and creators, but creativity and cultural contributions are global. International treaties provide rights under law to artists around the world, but that doesn’t mean their own countries [...]

WASHINGTON — It’s World IP Day again, did you get all of your celebratory cards in the mail? No harm if you didn’t, but the ten-year-old designation by the World Intellectual Property Organization has been celebrated the last five years by the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) with an event on Capitol Hill, and today [...]

WASHINGTON — Happy World IP Day! The ten-year old holiday, launched by the World Intellectual Property Organization, has been celebrated for the last five years by the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) with a conference on Capitol Hill. Today’s was possibly the best yet, despite the fact that I moderated a panel there with a [...]

Yesterday, Pandora announced a new venture designed to enhance sharing and discovering musical preferences with your social network. According to the company blog, through a partnership with Facebook, users of both sites can share their music stations with their Friends, and vice versa. In Syn© is a regular update on innovation in the copyright community.

As promised, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office released today the draft text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which it is negotiating with numerous trading partners, all of which are committed under international treaties and their own legal systems to enforcement of IP rights. You can see the 39-page draft here, an informative statement from [...]

Kudos to Senate Finance Committee leaders for calling on a key governmental agency to produce two detailed reports on Chinese infringement of copyright and other IP rights. Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-IA) wrote Shara Aranoff, Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission, on Monday, calling for the reports. The first, [...]

When flying into Denver from the East, it’s hard to determine where the great plains of Kansas end and the state of Colorado begins. But while driving from the Denver airport to the city center, the Rocky Mountains rise high above their surroundings, diminishing everything else in sight. It’s no wonder, I thought, that American [...]

This is the fifth year the Institute for Policy Innovation is hosting a conference in conjunction with World IP Day. It keeps getting better every year, and I’m not just saying that because I’m moderating a discussion with longtime copyright advocate Rep. Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) and accomplished author and screenwriter Andrew Klavan. This year’s event [...]