By Hunter Via
I recently traveled to Capitol Hill with CreativeFuture and my team from the FX show Snowfall to speak with Members of Congress. As a film and television editor, I’d hoped to give our elected officials a more complete picture of the growing constituency working in entertainment— one whose employment depends... Read more
A new study released today by the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) demonstrates how our jobs and creative works helped the copyright industries contribute more than $1 trillion to the U.S. economy in 2012 – an all-time high. See coverage in the Los Angeles Times. “This report makes it crystal... Read more
The founder of a German file sharing site made $8.2 million in just four years through advertising and subscription sales on his website, which at its peak had “some 135,000 copyright-protected films and TV series” and “up to 4 million users a day” – just one example of how websites... Read more
2,688,497 jobs in Ohio. $922.8 billion in economic output in California. 77.7 percent of total exports in Illinois. $66,208: the average wage of a Washington IP job. Those figures represent a snapshot of the results of a new study released today by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, breaking down the... Read more
We know from examples like Megaupload that foreign criminals are getting rich operating illegal websites designed to steal and profit from other people’s hard work and creativity. We also know that many of these same criminals use malware to spread threatening computer viruses that can steal your identity and credit... Read more
Yesterday during a White House conference called “Intellectual Property and the U.S. Economy: Industries in Focus,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka spoke about the inseparable link between intellectual property and American jobs. He lauded American creativity in media, and its value as a national export. The U.S. entertainment industry “remains heavily... Read more