There’s nothing more for me to add to this brilliant cartoon in Salon, other than the fact that I’m still trying to get the image of regurgitated cheese puffs out of my head.

It’s a good thing copyright is not a person, because three hundred candles on a cake would likely be a fire hazard. But when you divide three hundred candles across the 11 million Americans working as creators or other contributors in copyright industries, that only leaves 0.0000272 candles per person. Anyhow, kudos to U.S. Senate [...]

That counterfeiting and piracy causes significant harm to creators and creative industries is unquestioned, and the U.S. Government Accountability Office has affirmed that in a new report. The report is a bit thin on substance, but that appears to be intentional. While Congress in the PRO-IP Act of 2008 called for GAO to quantify the [...]

Wii is fun for games. Wii is fun for fitness. Wii is fun for movies? Yes! According to the company blog, Netflix subscribers can now stream their favorite TV shows and movies instantly from the web using their Wii console. Consumers can access programming from their “Instant Queue” or browse for new content using their Wii [...]

DENVER — This is our second year participating in the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, and a true highlight of this show occurred last night when Pulitzer-Prize winning author Michael Chabon addressed a ballroom filled with writers to its absolute brim, like a dreamy girl’s pockets after a day of collecting [...]

A recent Billboard article notes that Rhapsody is set to offer a new subscription service, Rhapsody Premier.  According to a blog post by Rhapsody, the new service will allow consumers more ways to enjoy music, streaming from any browser, mobile phone, or supporting set-top cable TV box or home entertainment system, or as they put [...]

If you get your hands on 18 million books you don’t own, make full copies of them, and look to profit from them online, expect a bit of legal trouble. Google’s latest headache is from photographers and illustrators. You go, visual artists! Let me say up front that while the Copyright Alliance didn’t play a [...]

DENVER — Lucinda Dugger and I spoke before a gathering of photographers here at a dinner sponsored by one of our members, the Advertising Photographers of America (in particular, their LA-Denver chapter). I did my song-and-dance about what’s happening in copyright policy (the suit filed that morning by photographers and illustrators against Google certainly made [...]