Virginia is home to thousands of people working in the creative community, from the employees at over 65 newspapers to the more than 1,200 professional photographers.  The state has also enjoyed providing the setting for over 45 films in recent years, including Steven Spielberg’s in-production biopic about President Abraham Lincoln.  The Lincoln film is being shot in [...]

Yesterday, Voice of America posted a piece about the significant financial impact television and film production is having in Hawaii.  More than 40 years after “Hawaii Five-0” became the first television series to film on-location in the state, Hawaii enjoyed its best year in the business, with $400 million spent by production companies on projects, including the [...]

This summer, Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon is expected to bring big bucks to the box office, but it already brought $24 million in spending to the state of Illinois, last summer.  According to the Illinois Film Office, the film provided 400 jobs (in addition to extras) during the 30-day shoot in and around Chicago.  [...]

A study released today by Georgia Music Partners finds that the music industry in Georgia contributes nearly 20,000 jobs and $3.7 billion in economic activity in the state, according to a press release on Music Industry News Network. A complete copy of the study can be viewed here. Learn more about the creative community in [...]

The Copyright Alliance since its beginnings has championed the national nature of the copyright industries. Someone who has never paused to consider the range of work that depends on copyright might think about only “big media”, or Hollywood, or the Big Apple. But the truth is, creativity is alive and well in all 50 states. [...]

Meet Kalispell, Montana photographer Craig Moore. Though Craig has his hands in everything from website development to wedding photography, the bulk of his work is derived from adventure photography. Living about 25 miles from Glacier National Park, on any given day you might find Craig with his camera capturing a nearly impossible ski jump, alongside [...]

Deborah Raleigh is a historical romance author based in Ewing, Missouri.  In our interview via Skype, she boasts that Ewing is just a stone’s throw from Hannibal, the childhood home of author Mark Twain and inspiration for the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’s fictional town of St. Petersburg.  Well, there must be something special in that [...]

Ken Light is a social documentary photographer who has been working professionally for over 40 years.  His insightful photos have been featured in books, magazines, and exhibitions worldwide.  Ken is also a full time Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California Berkeley and acts as curator for the Center for [...]

If you’re a regular follower of the Copyright Alliance, you’ll know of our Creators Across America video series that we launched this past Spring. Through these short video interviews, artists all across our country are speaking up for their rights. They tell a little bit about who they are, what their craft entails, and how [...]

Photographer Sean Davey’s first love was the surf.  As a child growing up in Australia, he spent most afternoons enjoying the sun, sand, and waves of his local beaches.  One afternoon he decided to go home and grab his camera to try and capture a shot of a perfect wave.  It was that one small [...]