It’s two o’clock in the afternoon and Pandora plays my (new) favorite radio station through my laptop speakers. While doing work, every dozen or so minutes I click back to the website to see who the band is that has popped up on the station. I haven’t heard of this band before. Who are these [...]

If you ever have the opportunity to listen in on a conversation between a group of visual artists – such as painters and sculptures – you’ll hear them debate the differences between fine art, craft, and commercial art. The conversation will eventually drift into a much heated discussion about “selling out” and the merits of [...]

A handful of creative works — paintings, musical works, writings, etc. — survive long after the creative has passed. An accomplished composer and producer of music and film yesterday said that those works sit at “the tip of the pyramid.” According to T. Bone Burnett, creative works comprise a pyramid, a pyramid constantly being swept [...]

It goes without saying that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is a true friend of copyright owners and creatives, but I’ll say it anyway, and you can hear him say it. Thanks to one of our board members and exhibitors for filming a bit of Senator Leahy’s remarks at our Copyright Alliance 4th [...]

As an amateur student of the subject of creativity, I often note multiple perceptions of what that word “creativity” means. An artist might use it to refer to her muse. An inventor might use it to refer to his method of innovation. A business leader might use it to promote the latest “secret” to getting [...]

I’m driving across the United States, interviewing artists in 35 states about their creativity, their passion, and their belief in the rights of artists. Here’s our press release released today (Monday) on the campaign. We’ll be posting new artist interview video every day here. Today we uploaded the first three videos from the trip, from [...]

Is it any surprise to read in The New York Times that today’s students don’t understand that cutting-and-pasting another’s work into your own isn’t research or scholarship, or that a new study from Northwestern University found that today’s youth don’t comprehend that the top search engine result may not be the most reliable? As a [...]

A recent Newsweek opinion piece by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman titled “The Creativity Crisis” has a subhead that reads as follows: “For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong — and how we can fix it.” Provocative, to be sure. But my hope is that as is almost [...]

Artists and creators are woven throughout the fabric of the American economy and our culture, as we’re showing in our Creators Across America series. An example of this is Cajun artist Bobby Pitre of Larose, Louisiana. His story may not be as poignant as that of someone who lost a loved one in the Deepwater [...]

Thursday featured many Obama Administration officials speaking strongly about the importance of copyright enforcement at an event sponsored by the U.S. Commerce Department, but enforcement actions on Wednesday by the Administration spoke even louder than words. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other state and federal agencies, with the new “Operation in our Sites,” cut [...]