This week, “60 Minutes” began it’s 43 season with a new web feature, “60 Minutes Overtime.” According the New York Times, the new Web site features original segments that tell the stories behind the story, giving viewers a closer look at the reporting process. In Syn© is a regular update on innovation in the copyright [...]

When a consumer comes across a web site offering high-quality movie and music streams, books, videogames and other media, an ad for Netflix or CitiBank certainly lends an aura of legitimacy to the site. The companies advertising on those sites don’t choose to advertise there; they sign up with an online ad aggregator, like market [...]

It was a welcome convergence of messages Tuesday as the Obama Administration’s key point person for intellectual property emphasized the same point being made by a bipartisan coalition of U.S. Senators on Capitol Hill — something must be done to cut off the flow of illicit profits to web sites, often offshore, that are profiting [...]

It goes without saying that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is a true friend of copyright owners and creatives, but I’ll say it anyway, and you can hear him say it. Thanks to one of our board members and exhibitors for filming a bit of Senator Leahy’s remarks at our Copyright Alliance 4th [...]

The fourth annual Copyright Alliance EXPOnential on Capitol Hill kicked off this morning with a discussion among artists and policymakers about the importance of intellectual property protection, and the investment by copyright industries in meeting consumer demand for content. At the “In Syn©: Innovators and Innovation in the Copyright Community” panel, innovators from the software, [...]

Jeff Schultz is an incredibly accomplished photographer in the state of Alaska. Originally a California native, Jeff headed up to Alaska over 20 years ago with a dream to build a log cabin. Captivated by the beauty of the state and the vast land that awaited exploration, Jeff decided to put his roots in the [...]

Once a year the Copyright Alliance gathers a group of individual artists and copyright industry representatives to showcase to any and all the latest innovative pro-consumer offerings from the rich tapestry of creators, our EXPOnential. This year we have three events to inform and entertain (see agenda here). You’ll also get to hear from the [...]

Lorrie Sarafin of Scottsdale, Arizona is the newest addition to our Creators Across America video series. Upon hearing the sound of the flute for the first time at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Lorrie knew it was something that she needed in her life. She spent countless hours playing to the vast Arizona desert [...]

As an amateur student of the subject of creativity, I often note multiple perceptions of what that word “creativity” means. An artist might use it to refer to her muse. An inventor might use it to refer to his method of innovation. A business leader might use it to promote the latest “secret” to getting [...]

Thirty-five states visited. Forty-three artists interviewed. Six thousand, eight hundred miles driven. Four time zones traversed. One speeding ticket received. Those are the raw numbers from my road trip across this country for our Creators Across America campaign. The artist and creator interviews are viewable easily on our YouTube channel. The trip took me six [...]