Today, Texas-based author and grassroots Alliance member Karen Ranney had an oped in The Hill supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act.  As a published author, she has seen her entire library of work offered online, both for free, and for a profit to the pirates who stole them.  Of the need for rogue sites legislation, [...]

Warren Olney hosted a discussion about pending rogue sites legislation today on his “To the Point” program. Sandra joined Free Ride author and journalist Robert Levine, New America Foundation Fellow Rebecca MacKinnon and NetCoalition Executive Director Markham Erickson for the conversation. Listen to the program here.

On Tuesday, a group of 46 businesses, trade associations and labor unions – from educational publishers to cosmetics companies, the US Tennis Association to IATSE — representing a broad cross section of the creative and content communities sent a letter to all members of the NY Congressional delegation asking for their support of the PROTECT [...]

Artists, songwriters, publishers and other representing America’s gospel and country music communities today are writing Members of the U.S. House of Representatives to urge support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The letter is yet another example of the diversity of artists and small businesses impacted by rogue web sites trafficking in pirated and [...]

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation yesterday released an analysis by Daniel Castro of legislation pending in the U.S. House and Senate to curb piracy and counterfeiting by rogue websites. Of particular import given ITIF’s mission to develop innovation policies and advocate for technological advances is its findings on claims by legislation opponents the these bills [...]

The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC) yesterday issued a statement urging Congress to pass rogue sites legislation in the House and Senate.  In their statement they noted that online piracy especially threatens the economic viability of minority entrepreneurs in broadcasting, calling the issues of IP theft “deeply urgent.” Read their full statement on their [...]

Intellectual Property Magazine recently named Alliance Member PPL’s CEO Fran Nevrkla their IP CEO of the Year.  Maura O’Malley, Editor of IP Magazine remarked that the “judges were impressed by the way he had transformed PPL into a truly international organization and had established a model of consensual licensing.” Currently in his 11th year as [...]

Top Administration officials today announced a new public education campaign created in partnership with the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) about intellectual property theft and its victims. Attorney General Eric Holder said, “As our country continues to recover from once-in-a-generation economic challenges, the need to safeguard intellectual property rights – and to protect Americans from intellectual [...]

The American Consumer Institute today announced the results of a survey illustrating that a vast majority of American consumers support stronger protection against websites trafficking pirated and counterfeit goods. The survey of 800 consumers found that 82 percent agreed that counterfeit goods, such as knock-off products, pirated software and imitation pharmaceuticals hurt the economy. Consumers [...]

Today is widely known as “Cyber Monday” in homage to the millions of online purchases consumers typically make the first workday after Thanksgiving weekend.  To protect U.S. consumers from the harmful activities of domestically held web sites that illegally sell and distribute counterfeit merchandise, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the National [...]