What a thrilling week to be a part of the Copyright Alliance team! Just a couple of short months ago, when I began here as a intern, the Copyright Alliance’s Letter to the President hadn’t yet been launched, and planning for the third annual EXPOnential was in its very early stages. Not only was I [...]

An impromptu jam session ensued on Tuesday at the Copyright Alliance’s EXPOnential between two musicians: Jonathan Ifergan and Margot MacDonald. Photo credit: Renee Bouchard The two had met for the first time just the day before to deliver the artists’ letter to the White House. Upon meeting, they found they had some areas of common [...]

Innovators from across copyright industries today gathered on Capitol Hill to provide a peek at new entertainment and educational products and talk about the importance of copyright to fostering creative new iterations of content. Judith Curr, publisher of Atria Books, a Simon and Schuster imprint, described Atria’s new vooks, an exciting new product that blends [...]

If you’d like to get a glimpse of the art scene in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City all in one evening, then you should stop by the Copyright Alliance’s EXPOnential on Tuesday where artists from each of these cities will be discussing their work and their careers. The Copyright Alliance’s Third Annual EXPOnential [...]

I had the pleasure of attending an interesting conference yesterday hosted by the Institute for Policy Innovation on broadband policy, a timely topic here in D.C. You can watch most of it on this C-SPAN recording; in an obvious conspiracy, the one panel C-SPAN chose not to videotape was the first one, in which I [...]

Like all creative industries, the photography industry is undergoing significant change. Technologies have been of benefit to professional photographers by easing legal distribution and creating new models for licensing, and have helped them to better express themselves in their art. But technologies have also enabled infringement of their works, and have created avenues for less [...]

Several weeks ago I was visiting my hometown of Hoboken, NJ for the weekend. While there, someone mentioned that the Hoboken Arts and Music Festival would be taking place that very Sunday (September 29, 2009). I was thrilled to learn that purely by coincidence I would be able to attend one of my favorite semiannual [...]

LOS ANGELES, CA – How I wish some of the bloggers who are so convinced the future of creative production requires reduction or abandonment of artists’ rights could travel in my circle and meet creators and promoters of creators who are in it for the love but also want to ensure they can keep sharing [...]

Add U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-MN) to the list of Washington policymakers insisting that there should be avenues for copyright owners and ISPs to target infringement on networks. It’s kind of hard to say we should build into law or regulations a safe harbor for illegal behavior, but it’s always nice when politicos here in [...]

Earlier this week the Future of Music Coalition (FOM) hosted their 2009 Future of Music Policy Summit. The three-day conference was held on the Georgetown University campus in Washington DC, and boasted a variety of music-related events, panel discussions, and keynote speeches. Through my internship with the Copyright Alliance, I was fortunate enough to attend [...]