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I will admit to being a casual enjoyer of baseball these days I really don’t know much about teams or players and so I can’t hazard a guess who’ll win but I know that the Wisconsinites who are going to infiltrate Tampa-St Pete-Clearwater can’t possibly lose.
Long after products are consumed, culture remains. American IP has shaped language, entertainment, technology, fashion, and popular culture on a truly global scale.
Today, U.S. copyright industries contribute more than $2 trillion annually to the American economy, support 11.6 million jobs, and generate over $270 billion in exports and foreign sales. iipa.org/files/uploads/2025/…
Many of these industries either did not exist, were only in their infancy, or lacked any of the clear statutory treatment, and business certainty, that they'd need to scale into global markets.
Results speak for themselves.
50 years ago today the 1976 Copyright Act was signed into law. Looking back, its success is measured not just in doctrine, but in the trillions of dollars of economic value and immeasurable cultural influence generated by the creative works it protects. blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2026…
The 1909 Act struggled to address tv, sound recordings, movies, expression that had become central to modern life. The 76 Act broadened protection to all original works fixed in a tangible medium of expression, intentionally written to accommodate future technologies.
with @northmusicgroup I’m pleased to launch the HARP Coalition (Heirs & Artist Rights Protection), an initiative dedicated to helping protect the creative legacies of artists, composers, and songwriters for future generations.
Our Q3 newsletter is avail
harpcoalition.com/newsletter…
HARP was created to provide education, advocacy, and a community for heirs, estates, and the professionals who support them. things like IP beyond (c), royalty admin, likeness rights, and of course the proliferation if AI.
Broadcasters act together to NOT cover, a protest to protect access after the gov’t makes a content-based exclusion, and it’s an antitrust violation?
That’s fucking rich.
It requires a Cyclopic reading of both competition law and the First Amendment.
nytimes.com/2026/10/10/busin…
Human artists should not have to compete with manufactured art and synthetic listening activity that siphons money from royalty pools intended to reward actual creation and audience engagement. cisac.org/Newsroom/news-rele…
If AI is going to have a place in the music economy, it cannot come at the expense of the people who built that economy in the first place. npr.org/sections/planet-mone…
AI can create opportunities, yes, but when used nefariously, AI can also lower the cost and increase the scale of fraudulent activity.
weforum.org/stories/2024/01/…