Recently eight reporters for The Washington Post decided to take on their addiction to our always-on world and surrender for one week their smart phones, Facebook, Twitter, email, web browsing, the works. It went about as well for them as it did on Seinfeld when the four friends each vowed to abstain from a certain [...]

According to CNET, PlayStation 3 and PSP owners can now purchase original content from Time Warner’s premium cable network HBO. Starting this week, gamers on the PlayStation network can enjoy their favorite episodes of HBO’s original series like Entourage and True Blood. In Syn© is a regular update on innovation in the copyright community.

If you’re a music student at Middle Tennessee State University you are required to take – and pass – a course on your rights as an artist, namely Copyright Law. And Ramona DeSalvo, an IP attorney and assistant professor at MTSU, is going to make sure you “get” how important your rights are to you. [...]

In what I would call a pretty obvious dog-bites-man story, the highly respected Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism found over a year-long study that more than 99% of all links to news accounts in blogs came from traditional media such as newspapers and broadcast networks. Yes, new technologies have made it easier [...]

Time Warner and Verizon are teaming up to bring FiOS TV customers unlimited access to popular television content from the TNT and TBS networks. According to a press release, this is just the beginning of the content that FiOS plans to make available to customers whenever and wherever they want it. In Syn© is a [...]

Why are the digirati so fearful of the talented, gifted, and truly creative? These techie thought leaders seem to believe they themselves have a gift, the gift of seeing the high-tech present for what it truly is, and the ability to see our digital future for what it will truly be. So why are these [...]

According to Hawaii state records, for the past six years the filming of the TV show “Lost” has brought the state $400 million in local spending. The film and TV industries are expected to spend $260 million in the state this year, according to the state’s film office. These interesting facts, being reported as “Lost” [...]

The Wall St Journal reviews how two traditional book-publishing houses are using digital technology to offer audiences novellas between books in a series, maximizing opportunities to connect with readers and keep them engaged. In Syn© is a regular update on innovation in the copyright community.

After much encouragement from my colleagues and the universe, the Copyright Alliance is now on Twitter. You can find us at copyright4you . I sent our first tweet (is that the right noun?) yesterday, a bit.ly of our latest blog post, our interview with Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Stan McCoy. If you “like” us on [...]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama recently reiterated the critical role trade plays in the U.S. economy and job creation and growth by issuing a Presidential Proclamation declaring May 16-22nd, 2010, World Trade Week (see the proclamation on the White House web site). We’re honoring World Trade Week by being honored with an interview with Assistant [...]