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.

Yesterday, Pandora announced a new venture designed to enhance sharing and discovering musical preferences with your social network. According to the company blog, through a partnership with Facebook, users of both sites can share their music stations with their Friends, and vice versa. In Syn© is a regular update on innovation in the copyright community.

There’s nothing more for me to add to this brilliant cartoon in Salon, other than the fact that I’m still trying to get the image of regurgitated cheese puffs out of my head.

In another example of how TV is taking to the web to become a more interactive experience for consumers, the NY Times is reporting that in the second season of Showtime’s Nurse Jackie, twitter-obsessed character Dr. Cooper’s  on-screen tweets will be posted to the character’s account in real time. In Syn© is a regular update on [...]

Attention college basketball fans, this just in from NBC Sports. You’ve got 24 hours, good luck! In Syn© is a regular update on innovation in the copyright community.

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 [...]

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 [...]