Last week the presidential campaign for Senator John McCain (R-AZ) released a long-awaited technology position paper, which followed one from the presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) issued late last year. So how do the two candidates square off on copyright?
Here’s an excerpt from McCain’s position paper:
The entertainment industry is both a vital sector [...]

I’ve written before about my fears that Google searches, RSS feeds and other tools that, wonderfully, bring us more information than ever before ALSO enable theft of expression like never before.
In the “analog” era, plagiarism was hard work. You had to hand-write or type the prose in front of you, a tedious exercise that generally [...]

Some readers will remember Spy vs. Spy, which originally was featured in Mad Magazine and then later in its spinoff TV show. Each episode, the two spies would seek to destroy the other, and invariably no one was ever really the winner.
Could we be looking at the same futile battle among recording artists? Hank Williams [...]

We talk about a digital divide in this country, but there is a very real one in the Arab world, with only an estimated 5 million Arabs online. So how do you reach 300 million Arabs across 22 countries? With a satellite channel, as Wagdy Sawahel reports in IP Watch.
A new satellite channel based in [...]

Rights are worthless if they aren’t enforced. When copyright owners and creators see their rights as having meaning through enforcement, all of society wins through creation of new works. We also benefit from more jobs and more tax revenues and investment in the US economy, benefits that cannot be understated given this country’s current economic [...]

Want to know why copyright opponents never seem to understand the value of copyright? Because they compare a musical performance that will please generations of listeners to the one-time service of dry cleaning a pair of pants.
I mean, really.

Today’s guest blog is written by Dan Glickman, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
Consider the following questions:
1. Does your home computer contain information that you feel strongly about protecting, such as your social security number, financial information, tax records?
2. [...]

You find a range of opinions on orphan works legislation in Congress, including among Copyright Alliance members. But I believe all out there who care about copyright and creators’ rights agree that nothing good will come of an artist being denied their rights even when they are making efforts to ensure their works can be [...]

We often hear that copyright is a monopoly. We also hear that as a monopoly, copyright costs consumers because monopoly goods are by definition more expensive (what economists would call “deadweight loss.” But U. of Texas at Dallas Managerial Economics Professor Stan Liebowitz July 11 presented a compelling paper at the Society for Economic Research [...]

ADELPHI, MD. — I had the privilege today of speaking before the University of Maryland University College Center for Intellectual Property Symposium, the second time I have done so. This time my job was to appear on a panel reacting to a presentation by Georgia Harper of the University of Texas at Austin. Her points, basically were such: 1) Copyright is outdated and wrongheaded in the digital world. 2) If copyright law doesn't step out of the way, we will sidestep the law (her words).