Once a year the Copyright Alliance gathers a group of individual artists and copyright industry representatives to showcase to any and all the latest innovative pro-consumer offerings from the rich tapestry of creators, our EXPOnential. This year we have three events to inform and entertain (see agenda here). You’ll also get to hear from the [...]

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 [...]

Songwriter, Jason Robert Brown, recently posted on his blog a story about his experience dealing with copyright infringement.  Knowing for a long time that many websites exist for the sole purpose of “trading” sheet music, Jason decided to log on himself and politely ask many of the users to stop “trading” his work.  While many [...]

Thank you to all of the good folks at the Music Publishers Association, since 1895 the oldest music trade association in the United States, for honoring the Copyright Alliance with the prestigious Arnold Broido Award for Copyright Advocacy. Mr. Broido, universally considered a music industry treasure, passed on in 2007, but the publisher of symphonic [...]

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 [...]

We praised the FCC recently when it released its long-awaited National Broadband Plan. We share the FCC’s vision of a wired and wireless world of high-speed Internet connectivity. Creative industries are embracing the online market in new and innovative ways — see our In Syn(c) series for more — and the more robust and widespread [...]

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 [...]

The Copyright Alliance commends the Federal Communications Commission on its yeoman’s work creating a proposed National Broadband Plan. When Congress gives you homework, you take it seriously, and the FCC has given Congress a lot to chew on. When we testified at an FCC Workshop during its preparations of this plan, we endorsed strongly the [...]

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 [...]