In the midst of the debate over bills intended to preserve jobs in the creative sector, like the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act, it is easy to focus purely on the economic contributions and significance of the creative community.   But that misses the bigger picture. Artists and creators are storytellers first [...]

SESAC at Americana Fest Nashville, always a great place for live music, next week is the place for 100 live performances at five music venues in and around downtown Nashville during the 12th Annual Americana Music Festival October 12-15. Copyright Alliance member SESAC is hosting nightly performances at multiple venues around the city. Check their [...]

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 [...]

Social activist, social documentarian, professional historian, voyeur – all self-descriptive terms offered by some of photography’s best at an extraordinary discussion on Capitol Hill today. Recording Our History: Faces Behind the Camera featured civil rights era photographer Matt Herron; famed wedding and Kennedy family photographer Denis Reggie; and John Harrington, past President, White House News [...]

Doug TenNapel is a graphic novelist and illustrator, whose stories have been sold to Fox, Universal and Paramount. His animated series, “Catscratch”, airs on Nicktoons by Nickelodeon. He is the creator of Earthworm Jim, a character that has been adapted to video games, cartoons and toys. He has a pretty cool career. One to be [...]

In a week when Congress and the Administration are negotiating to keep the government open, a news conference today concerning online theft demonstrated that there are core issues to the economy – such as the importance of American intellectual property as a growth engine and generator of economic prosperity and jobs that can still unite [...]

“Music hits you at different points of your life. It’s a natural thing. You just connect. Which is why I don’t ask people their favorite band, I ask what they are listening to now.” D.J. Kyriakides, trombonist for DC’s Lucky Dub This sentiment so accurately conveys the emotional attachment we have to music. Well said, [...]

The tips of daffodils and buds on early-bloom trees may be the sign that spring is emerging in some parts of our country. But in Alaska, where layers of snow still blanket the landscape, a race which celebrates the heartiness of winter is about to begin. The Iditarod Sled Dog Race begins on March 5 [...]

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 was a welcome convergence of messages Tuesday as the Obama Administration’s key point person for intellectual property emphasized the same point being made by a bipartisan coalition of U.S. Senators on Capitol Hill — something must be done to cut off the flow of illicit profits to web sites, often offshore, that are profiting [...]