During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Obama proposed a new Trade Enforcement Initiative designed to combat unfair trade practices.  In his remarks, the President stated “It’s not right when another country lets our movies, music and software be pirated.”  According the White House, the initiative includes the formation of a new [...]

A number of Internet sites today have opted to shut down in protest of bills they say would censor the Internet. A headline-grabbing PR stunt, to be sure. But these companies and groups are making charges about the bills that are blatantly untrue, conjuring up straw man legislative demons in order to knock them down [...]

Monday, at a meeting hosted by several Hollywood Guilds, including Copyright Alliance members Directors Guild of America,  American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and Writers Guild of America, West, as well as Producers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild, First Lady Michelle Obama urged creators to support military families by incorporating storylines that [...]

President Barack Obama awarded ten artists with the nation’s top honor for artistic achievement on Wednesday in a ceremony presenting the National Medal of Arts. The honorees include Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep, Grammy award winning musician James Taylor, author Harper Lee, jazz legend Sonny Rollins, Grammy award winning musician and producer Quincy Jones, theater producer [...]

The Obama Administration yesterday issued an Executive Order establishing two Advisory Committees on Intellectual Property Enforcement. The new committees will assist the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator in implementing the Joint Strategic Plan for Intellectual Property Enforcement, and will ensure that all of the Administration Agencies and Departments affected by intellectual property infringement are represented and [...]

Unlawful trafficking of copyrighted material accounts for almost one-fourth of Internet traffic worldwide, according a study released Monday. CNBC’s Julia Boorstin said it simply: the “stat on copyright infringement released today is shocking.” The research was conducted by trademark monitoring firm Envisional and commissioned by NBC Universal.  It is the first study to specifically estimate [...]

The theme of tonight’s State of the Union address, as outlined by the President this weekend, will focus on the American workforce – “making sure that we are competitive, that we are growing, and we are creating jobs not just now but well into the future”. A unifying truth for creators in all 50 states [...]

To holiday shoppers, Cyber Monday is when you use your work computer to do a bit of online shopping, hoping for some good savings. Thank you to the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (its Immigration and Customs Enforcement division) for providing their own spin on Cyber Monday — a [...]

“Protecting intellectual property is a top priority for the United States – for President Obama, for me, and for America’s law enforcement community.” Thus spoke U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday in Hong Kong. The Attorney General’s remarks are but the latest in a long list of strong endorsements of the rights of copyright owners [...]

When a consumer comes across a web site offering high-quality movie and music streams, books, videogames and other media, an ad for Netflix or CitiBank certainly lends an aura of legitimacy to the site. The companies advertising on those sites don’t choose to advertise there; they sign up with an online ad aggregator, like market [...]