From timeless classics Where the Wild Things Are or The Velveteen Rabbit to newer favorites Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Is Your Mamma a Llama?, books from your childhood (as well as those you find yourself reading over and over to little ones you love) have a way of sticking with you. Today is National Reading Day – an annual [...]

Kathy Wolfe, Founder and CEO of Wolfe Video and Wolfe Releasing –the oldest and largest exclusive distributor of LGBT films in the world– has a piece on the Huffington Post today.  In it she writes that while the Internet is essential to her business and the independent filmmakers she represents, and they “have readily embraced [...]

As the House Judiciary Committee readies for markup of the Stop Online Piracy Act tomorrow, much attention is also being paid to a competing proposal that would utilize the International Trade Commission (ITC) as the venue for enforcing copyrights and trademarks online against foreign based rogue websites, outside of US jurisdiction. While the creative community [...]

Today, Texas-based author and grassroots Alliance member Karen Ranney had an oped in The Hill supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act.  As a published author, she has seen her entire library of work offered online, both for free, and for a profit to the pirates who stole them.  Of the need for rogue sites legislation, [...]

Artists, songwriters, publishers and other representing America’s gospel and country music communities today are writing Members of the U.S. House of Representatives to urge support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The letter is yet another example of the diversity of artists and small businesses impacted by rogue web sites trafficking in pirated and [...]

In the midst of the debate over bills intended to preserve jobs in the creative sector, like the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act, it is easy to focus purely on the economic contributions and significance of the creative community.   But that misses the bigger picture. Artists and creators are storytellers first [...]

This column originally appeared in the Champaign News-Gazette October 23, 2011 Reproduced by permission of The News-Gazette, Inc. – Permission does not imply endorsement. My friend, the late, great Muscle Shoals songwriter Robert Byrne, once told me, “A hit song is an act of God.” I’m glad I didn’t under­stand the full ramifications of that [...]

Journalist and author Robert Levine describes himself as a passionate music fan (while speaking with AdWeek this week, he was browsing the vinyl selection at a record store in Nashville) who has also been interested in technology most of his life, and has been lucky enough to cover the intersection of those topics for a [...]

The U.S. House of Representatives today introduced H.R. 3261, The Stop Online Piracy Act, a bipartisan bill that would promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. intellectual property. Eight members joined House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI), IP Subcommittee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Rep. Howard [...]

SESAC at Americana Fest Nashville, always a great place for live music, next week is the place for 100 live performances at five music venues in and around downtown Nashville during the 12th Annual Americana Music Festival October 12-15. Copyright Alliance member SESAC is hosting nightly performances at multiple venues around the city. Check their [...]