Regular readers of this blog know that I would, as this headline suggests, resist strongly any attempt to force a copyright owner’s ability to manage his or her rights over her copyrights to a mere 12 months. But that’s what some in Congress have proposed with a well-meaning but ill-advised piece of legislation.
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According to Digital Media Wire, Steig Larsson, author of the Millennium Trilogy, is the first author to sell over 1 million Kindle e-books. Amazon.com announced he’s the first member of their new “Kindle Million Club” noting that all three books in the trilogy are among the top 10 bestselling Kindle books of all time.
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Trust me, it’s not every day that a novelist is asked to do a presentation and reading from her novel at the U.S. Library of Congress, but M.L. Malcolm had that honor recently, discussing and sharing Heart of Lies. When I heard she was going to be in town from Los Angeles, I immediately [...]

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Photographer Erik Stenbakken recently wrote the Obama Administration saying that the dramatic shift in America’s attitude towards ownership and payment for Intellectual Property is not a healthy one. He notes that “the attitude of ‘if I can find it and copy it, it’s mine for free; has cost millions, perhaps billions of dollars in [...]

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Remember those state quarters, the ones that came out a few at a time each year, until all 50 states had their own quarter? I do, because every time a new one came out I had to watch obsessively for them on behalf of my two kids, who were collecting them.
Artist Linda Frances did [...]

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Sony Music is planning an all-Classical online store, according to a report in MediaMemo. Billboard notes the specialty store will likely offer classical aficionados higher quality “lossless” downloads from Sony’s library as well as other major labels.
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A recent Newsweek opinion piece by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman titled “The Creativity Crisis” has a subhead that reads as follows: “For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong — and how we can fix it.” Provocative, to be sure. But my hope is that as is almost [...]

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Novelist Aline deWinter recently wrote the Obama Administration noting that “frequently the artist must trade money for exposure, especially in the beginning, and make the least amount of income in the chain of bringing work before an audience.” She then says that the arts might possibly be the only field in which you HAVE to [...]

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Earlier this week a consortium of entertainment companies and organizations unveiled UltraViolet, a common file format designed to give consumers more choice and freedom when it comes to digital content. Still several months from beta testing, according to The Wrap, UltraViolet would allow consumers to watch digital video on almost any player they choose, from smartphones [...]

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Earlier this week, NBC Universal announced a new venture with Vivox, the leading provider of voice chat services for social networking and gaming. According to MarketWatch, this pairing will create an even more engaging online experience for fans.
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