The Copyright Alliance Education Foundation has worked in partnership over the past year with Young Minds Inspired and its panel of educator advisors to develop materials for teachers about copyright and the classroom.
The goal: to help teachers navigate the topic of copyright and provide some general top-level information they might find useful.
These materials were sent [...]

Today the Senate Commerce Committee voted 24-1 to approve Julius Genachowski as the next Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission; recently Mr. Genachowski gave a very strong statement to that Committee on the importance of copyright enforcement and how he at the FCC would respect the rights of creators.
The full US Senate is expected [...]

The Copyright Alliance blog will be a bit dark for the next week, as its primary author catches up with his family, all of whom he’d like to be able to continue to identify.
Catch up with you soon.

Anyone out there been following the Copyright Royalty Board proceeding on setting rates for digital music services? I have, and it’s enough to make your head hurt. It came up during the panel I was on last week at the Americana Music Conference. Well, it turns out some of the rates in question have been [...]

NASHVILLE — No policy stuff here, so if that’s what you want keep on going.
Okay, for those still with us, I must share something. I absolutely love my job, but it is taxing. Most of our staff is part-time, we are involved in developing educational curricula, we’re building a grass-roots network, we’re active in the [...]