While in Denver, CO for an Advertising Photographers of America event, Lucinda Dugger met with commercial photographer Mark Stout. His video is the latest edition to our Creators Across America campaign. Mark discussed his career, and the frequent battle between photographers and clients caused by the recent decline in copyright industry revenues. As Mark explains, [...]

Creator Christopher Hornisch recently wrote the Obama Administration saying that he is “saddened by the government’s slow response to aggressively protect the individual and his right to govern his work from being abused by others”. He mentions that although copyright law has affected him as a creator, he still creates and seeks excellence in his [...]

For those of you who don’t know what a song plugger is, meet Robyn Taylor-Drake. The Copyright Alliance’s Lucinda Dugger had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Robyn on a trip to Nashville, TN earlier this year. Robyn is a long standing music industry professional who works with songwriters to help get their [...]

I had the privilege of meeting photographer Jackie Shumaker while in Denver for an Advertising Photographers of America event. While out there, Lucinda Dugger interviewed Jackie and another photographer, Kim Cook. Kim’s video was posted on July 1st. Jackie describes herself as a “construction photographer,” noting that is a fairly uncommon description. She doesn’t need [...]

Artists and creators are woven throughout the fabric of the American economy and our culture, as we’re showing in our Creators Across America series. An example of this is Cajun artist Bobby Pitre of Larose, Louisiana. His story may not be as poignant as that of someone who lost a loved one in the Deepwater [...]

Artist Lesli Zephyr recently wrote the Obama Administration saying that she has to constantly keep an eye for those who use her designs without her consent. She says that her creations reflect her as a person and are part what she believes, “part of my humor, my political views, my political ideals, and my perspectives.” [...]

Independent filmmaker Ellen Seidler of Fast Girl Films used loans and credit cards to finance a $250,000 motion picture, And Then Came Lola. But as she explains on the film’s web site, her film has appeared all over the Internet on pirate sites profiting from her film through the use of online advertising: It seems [...]

I first met Sam D’Amico in April, when we were both speakers at the World IP Day summit hosted in DC by the Institute for Policy Innovation. I was struck by what an articulate speaker he was on the importance of photographers in retaining and making use of their copyrights. Around that time, he stopped [...]

Thursday featured many Obama Administration officials speaking strongly about the importance of copyright enforcement at an event sponsored by the U.S. Commerce Department, but enforcement actions on Wednesday by the Administration spoke even louder than words. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other state and federal agencies, with the new “Operation in our Sites,” cut [...]

Songwriter, Jason Robert Brown, recently posted on his blog a story about his experience dealing with copyright infringement.  Knowing for a long time that many websites exist for the sole purpose of “trading” sheet music, Jason decided to log on himself and politely ask many of the users to stop “trading” his work.  While many [...]