It’s the most wonderful time of the year… especially if you’re a pirate site, eager to relieve hurried and stressed shoppers of their gift dollars! Counterfeit goods are not a new phenomenon, but their online incarnations are recent enough to be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They make more than $96 million every year, and with only negligible running costs there’s little to detract from that profit. Sounds like an attractive business, right? Wrong, at least if you’re an artist whose work is being exploited to keep […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We wrote last month about Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler (and many other artists) lending support to the fight against compulsory music licenses. Well, the rock n’ roll rule breaker descended upon D.C. again this week to focus on making the rules… or […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It has been an eventful year for copyright protection, as this excellent Copyright Alliance review of 2013 explains. In the same period that the IIPA identified the value of copyright to the U.S. economy at $1 trillion, a study by […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Innovation is under attack, according to Gary Shapiro, the president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association. He’s right, but for all the wrong reasons. In an opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal, Gary Shapiro raises the alarm, saying […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Internet piracy is a growth industry, according to “Sizing the Piracy Universe,” a study commissioned by NBCU and conducted by Dr. David Price and UK based NetNames. We reported on the study yesterday and it continues to make news […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
