Last week, the Congressional Anti-Piracy Caucus sent letters to three advertising associations, calling on them to aide efforts to curb online infringement by stopping the placement of advertising on rogue sites.  The letters were sent to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the Association of National Advertisers and the American Association of Advertising Agencies, and emphasize a point [...]

This week on the MPAA blog, we learned that GroupM will no longer place ads on websites that distribute stolen movies, TV shows or music. We have highlighted this problem before, noting that not only do rogue operators make money off of this advertising, but the appearance of familiar logos make unsuspecting consumers assume these [...]

In this down economy, where the unemployment rate still hovers around 9.4%, any existing jobs are vital to the health and well-being of local communities. Jobs are important for both economic stability and growth. And, the effects of a job that disappears or is eliminated from a local community can be felt in all corners [...]

The phrase “free speech” gets tossed around a lot in policy debates, often in a highly misleading way. It’s a topic I’m particularly sensitive to, since much of my career involved the daily exercise of free speech as a journalist. It was also an issue I studied and wrote about as a think tank senior [...]

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 [...]

Astor Morgan is a busy guy. Along with photographing celebrities and doing other shoots such as CD covers and advertising work, Astor serves as chairman of the LA Chapter of the Advertising Photographers of America, curates shows such as “I Spy With My Plastic Eye,” and is organizing a photo workshop tour of Sicily after [...]

DENVER — Lucinda Dugger and I spoke before a gathering of photographers here at a dinner sponsored by one of our members, the Advertising Photographers of America (in particular, their LA-Denver chapter). I did my song-and-dance about what’s happening in copyright policy (the suit filed that morning by photographers and illustrators against Google certainly made [...]

More people are watching video over the Internet than ever before. It is becoming increasingly easy to stream online video on your television, bringing the lean-back and lean-forward technologies together in a pleasant way. We want this to continue, right? There are two challenges facing the growth of a legal online video market. One is [...]

Start with a web site that posts high-quality, professional-level visual arts works, with the intention of making them available easily and for free to all. Then imagine that it actively encourages people to upload works that are not theirs, but just “found” online. Then imagine it pokes creators in the eye by calling the monthly [...]