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 [...]

Top Administration officials today announced a new public education campaign created in partnership with the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) about intellectual property theft and its victims. Attorney General Eric Holder said, “As our country continues to recover from once-in-a-generation economic challenges, the need to safeguard intellectual property rights – and to protect Americans from intellectual [...]

The Copyright Alliance today announced establishment of a Legal Advisory Board to foster closer collaboration with firms representing the Alliance’s institutional members and other copyright owners. The Board launches today with 14 prestigious founding members, who will work with the Alliance and its membership to further understanding and respect for copyright law, develop educational programs, [...]

A group of content companies and Internet service providers today announced a new consumer education initiative that will coordinate efforts to notify Internet service subscribers when their accounts are being used to download infringing content. The agreement establishes a multi-layered system of “Copyright Alerts” and a new Center for Copyright Information to help administer the [...]

Last week the Copyright Alliance was privileged to host three renowned photographers for a discussion on Capitol Hill about the work that happens behind the scenes to create memorable images. Inherent to their stories is the role copyright plays in helping photographers make a living, and promote various social aims by licensing images. Each artist [...]

Numerous news outlets this morning reported that the MPAA, RIAA and internet service providers are nearing agreement on a long discussed proposal to better educate internet users on legal options for receiving entertainment content online, and to inform consumers who repeatedly engage in infringement online that their actions are inappropriate. We have not seen the [...]

The High Court in the UK today dismissed a case brought by Internet service providers arguing that they should not be held responsible for their share of costs for an education campaign to inform illegal file uploaders that their activities are illegal, and to redirect them to legitimate digital distribution sites. In a particularly well-worded statement, [...]

This week I had the opportunity to attend The Atlantic’s Technologies in Education Forum at the Newseum.  The event, sponsored by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Copyright Alliance member Entertainment Software Association (ESA), featured a series of expert panels and discussions focused on the use of video games as innovative teaching tools, with an emphasis [...]

The New York Times posted this moving video and commentary on its Lens blog this week about photographer Joao Silva, who took his first steps with newly fitted prosthetic legs on Monday. Mr. Silva, a Times contract photographer, has been a patient at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center since losing both his legs to a [...]

A Harvard Crimson editorial published today addressing unauthorized file-sharing on university networks is tagged “A Sensible Compromise.” The compromise itself? The university working with copyright owners and their agents such as the MPAA in reducing infringement on university networks. What else is “sensible” is the entire editorial, which gives lie to the notion that everyone [...]