Today’s guest blog is written by David Israelite, President and CEO of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA).
At the NMPA, I am fortunate to work on behalf of people who inspire us with their work on a daily basis – songwriters. Their words and music have the power to move and motivate and [...]

An interesting blog posted today discusses the ironies surrounding the work of Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the HOPE image that has been widely circulated during the Barack Obama campaign. Apparently, Fairey has become upset because some people have sold his posters – which he donated to the Obama campaign – on Ebay, thus [...]

SANTA MONICA, CA — Every time I come to this show, I hear more technologists eager to make deals with copyright owners, legal deals rewarding both parties. Yes, one big obstacle remains — to date, returns from online distribution of creative works haven’t approached that of traditional models. But improvements are being made in that [...]

* i know, I prefer the term “creative works,” but I’m speaking the lingo of the conference here and will use “content” in this blog entry.
SANTA MONICA, CA — Another Digital Hollywood, another amalgam of creative start-ups with bizarre Web 2.0 names, another set of panels where people continue to try to figure out how [...]

SANTA MONICA, CA — How can you host a conference 200 yards from the beach and expect people to attend your indoor, windowless sessions? Well, DCIA did okay today with their P2P and Video Summit, and I suspect Digital Hollywood will hang in there as well the rest of this week. I’ve spent a lot [...]

BERLIN, GERMANY — Anyone own any Pink Floyd? Is there anyone who doesn’t? Fans will know their albums are thematic, some like an opera (”The Wall”) and others more in mood and sentiment with reprising tunes (”Dark Side of the Moon,” “Animals”). Several speakers at different panels at the Popkomm Music Conference wondered aloud here [...]

BERLIN, GERMANY — No, the title of this blog doesn’t refer to a new Windows Media service. Rather, it examines the possibility of the music industry adopting a digital version of the “windows” used by the motion picture industry to target consumers at the right price points.
This notion, that popped up in various forms throughout [...]

BERLIN, GERMANY: It doesn’t seem to matter if I’m in Las Vegas (CES), Los Angeles (Digital Hollywood), Cannes (Midem) or Berlin — the big mystery before both creative industries and technologists is how on Earth to make money in the digital space. That was a recurring theme at the sessions I attended at the Popkomm [...]

MUNCIE, INDIANA: The folks here at Ball State’s Digital Economy Institute have put on an interesting conference called “Digital Policy in the Information Age.” I’ve already blogged on an interesting exchange I had regarding DVD replication with a student who attended the panel discussion in which I participated.
What was my panel on? That’s kind of [...]

There was a lot of talent and a lot of political firepower yesterday in the Russell Senate Caucus Room, a room where a former senator told me various Kennedys have announced whether or not they would run for President over the years. We heard no such announcement yesterday at the 2nd Annual Copyright EXPOnential, but [...]