We often point out here at the Copyright Alliance that while different business models work differently for different creative goods and different consumers, ultimately there are similar forces at work in everything from selling a motion picture to an illustration — you need to find your audience. This is true for the vast array of [...]

You wouldn’t think those two have much to do with each other, but Steve Rubel sees a correlation, and what he sees isn’t good for newspapers and magazines. I spend a lot of time focusing on both of these industries from a copyright standpoint, as I have a background in both and feel both are [...]

… to wait to be able to make money for your creativity in the digital age? Isn't ten years long enough? Computer scientist Jason Lanier thinks it is, and has come to believe that artists are being dissed by Silicon Valley. See his op-ed in The New York Times today.

I frequently sing the praises of all of the new business models involving creative works licensed to new digital devices and services, and even held a panel discussion on the topic in the US Capitol in June. So it's always dismaying when I see someone take the easy way out, and seemingly provide a service without any thought to the artist whose work is being exploited.

I'm referring here to a week-old site called SongZa. It's a jukebox site; you type in the artist and name you want to here, and moments later it's playing. Here's what it says on its About page:

A busy day today for Copyright Alliance member Attributor. For one, it dispensed with the "beta" tag that's been up and running for months for AP and one month for Reuters and made official its content monitoring and analysis platform to track copied content across the Internet. (What's up with these Silicon Valley folks being so attached to the "beta" label, anyway?) This very cool technology was discussed at our July 24 panel discussion in the U.S. Capitol with Senator Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) (read the transcript).