It’s not every day that I recommend readers devour every single line of a written work authored by someone other than myself (I’m smiling while writing that), but I strongly recommend doing so with Andrew Zolli’s “My Turn” column in Newsweek titled “The Future Won’t Be Free.” In fact, print it out, paste it on [...]

It would seem that Helene Hegemann is a talented, creative young woman. One wonders what sort of fiction she could have created had she simply “stood on the shoulders of giants” and written an original work inspired by past literary giants. Instead, she decided to cut and paste pages of published literary works and pass [...]

The national nonprofit dedicated to advancing the arts in the United States, Americans for the Arts, released today the National Arts Index by Roland J. Kushner and Randy Cohen, a report that analyzes the health and vitality of the arts and culture in the United States. It looks at 76 national-level indicators of artistic and [...]

I just came from a compelling event hosted by a think tank, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. ITIF was promoting a paper released today by technologists titled “Steal These Policies: Strategies for Reducing Digital Piracy.” The paper is a must-read; let me summarize the event, which had a very important theme — namely, that [...]

WASHINGTON — I had the pleasure of hearing two Copyright Alliance members speak today at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global IP Center Summit. At the risk of sounding like a suck-up, I was struck by how these individuals, who represent very different industries, had so much in common when it came to intellectual property [...]

WASHINGTON — First President Obama appoints a perfect individual to protect the rights of intellectual property owners around the world. Victoria Espinel, upon Senate confirmation, will be the nation’s first IP Enforcement Coordinator, a new statutory position resulting from the PRO-IP Act.
Today, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk spoke at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global [...]

Yvonne Harris Burnley is a lawyer in the Washington, DC area and the manager of her father’s legacy and estate, the legendary jazz tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris. I met Yvonne last year at the National Music Publishers’ Association meeting in New York City where I learned about her many roles in owning and managing copyrights. [...]

Yvonne Harris Burnley is a lawyer in the Washington, DC area and the manager of her father’s legacy and estate, the legendary jazz tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris. I met Yvonne last year at the National Music Publishers’ Association meeting in New York City where I learned about her many roles in owning and managing copyrights. [...]

When fighting for the rights of copyright owners it helps to have a sense of humor. I’m grateful that the Software and Information Industry Association* has shown one in their new video titled “Don’t Copy That 2″ — here’s a link to its home with other goodies and here’s the YouTube link — an update [...]

Have you ever been cut off in traffic? Did you like it? Have you ever cut somebody off in traffic? Did you give it a second thought? There are lessons here that can help us understand the future of artists and creators in the digital age.
That most individuals have a sense of right and wrong [...]