Why are the digirati so fearful of the talented, gifted, and truly creative? These techie thought leaders seem to believe they themselves have a gift, the gift of seeing the high-tech present for what it truly is, and the ability to see our digital future for what it will truly be. So why are these [...]

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Happy 3rd birthday, Copyright Alliance! Three years ago today, May 17th, the Copyright Alliance was formally launched. One organization brought together representatives from all copyright industries, including unions and guilds, corporations, trade associations, artists’ alliances, and of course individual artists and creators themselves. However they may tussle in the marketplace of creativity, they are united [...]

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LOS ANGELES — A common fallacy of modern-day digirati thinking is that because things are new, they must invariably replace the old. This flies against logic and against history. Look at any technological innovation of note, and you’ll still find some level of use of a prior generation of technology. Those critical of modern copyright [...]

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SANTA MONICA — Anyone who has been in the copyright policy space awhile knows that the music industry is frequently described as the “canary in the coal mine.” The analogy comes from the tradition of miners bringing caged canaries into mines to gauge how toxic the air was. If the canary died, they should probably [...]

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Hello everyone—my name is Kathleen, and I am currently the spring intern at the Copyright Alliance. Yesterday was my first World IP Day hosted by the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI), and I was humbled by the number of brilliant and impassioned individuals who attended. When I first arrived, the conference room was surprisingly empty, [...]

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WASHINGTON — Join me in celebrating World IP Day, and yes, let’s emphasize the word “World.” Here at the Copyright Alliance we tend to focus on U.S. artists and creators, but creativity and cultural contributions are global. International treaties provide rights under law to artists around the world, but that doesn’t mean their own countries [...]

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WASHINGTON — It’s World IP Day again, did you get all of your celebratory cards in the mail? No harm if you didn’t, but the ten-year-old designation by the World Intellectual Property Organization has been celebrated the last five years by the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) with an event on Capitol Hill, and today [...]

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When flying into Denver from the East, it’s hard to determine where the great plains of Kansas end and the state of Colorado begins. But while driving from the Denver airport to the city center, the Rocky Mountains rise high above their surroundings, diminishing everything else in sight.
It’s no wonder, I thought, that American Indians [...]

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The Copyright Alliance submitted comments today (Wednesday, March 24, 2010) to the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (USIPEC), Victoria Espinel, 1) strongly supporting the Obama Administration’s effort to increase enforcement of copyright owners’ rights, 2) emphasizing the importance of education in helping individuals understand the importance of copyright to the economy and the culture and [...]

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Yesterday, March 11, 2010, I was pleased to attend a panel discussion moderated by our own Lucinda Dugger.  The discussion, titled Cross-Discipline Collaboration: How Writers and Artists are Working Together to Push Boundaries and Engage the Public, was part of Washington DC’s Split This Rock Poetry Festival.  It explored questions about the collaborative process and [...]

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