By Justin Sanders
Behind every Pat Sajak, Alex Trebek, or Steve Harvey, there stands a Noah Bonnett – an executive producer (EP) waiting in the wings, making sure the game shows of the world run smoothly. Producing any live television show requires a singular combination of logistical wherewithal, managerial talent, quick thinking, and... Read more
By Justin Sanders
If you are a musician or a composer, you probably have a basic understanding of how one makes money in your profession. However, as one very successful professional musician once said, “The times they are a-changing.” The good news is that music revenue is rising again in the age of... Read more
By: CreativeFuture
What were you doing at age 16? Chances are it didn’t involve moonlighting as a self-made concert promoter, organizing shows in your backyard with some of the Southern California punk rock scene’s most revered acts. Unless, of course, you are Jason Markey, President of Music at STX Entertainment, in which... Read more
By: Georgia Stitt
I make my living as a composer and lyricist, working in collaboration with playwrights to make new musicals for the theater. I have a lot to say about sheet music, and I’ll get to that, but I’d like to start by drawing your attention to World Intellectual Property Day.... Read more
Dear Mr. Cerf, You have many admirers for your pioneering work in the launch of the internet, and we count ourselves among them. You earned your unofficial sobriquet, the “Father of the Internet,” by envisioning a utopic network on which data and research could be shared freely around the world... Read more
By: Ruth Vitale
In the mid-to-late ‘90s, the internet was just beginning to enter American homes with the promise of bringing us closer together. This was a world where people read their email – if they even had it – through America Online, connected with strangers in chat rooms, used bygone search engines... Read more
By: Kristina Ensminger
Elisa Malona never imagined that one day it would be her job to make dead animals dance around a spinning tree stump for Neil Young. “I’ll be rigging these taxidermy woodland creatures for a Neil Young bit or throwing water in Melissa McCarthy’s face while she’s lip syncing and I’ll... Read more
Calling Karin Fong “the Saul Bass of her generation” may be a little rich. But other than the mentors that shepherded her, she has few superiors, let alone equals, in the realm of title design. But in person, she’s quite humble and humorous. “If you need someone to whip up... Read more
FLIPPED Marsha Blackburn
By Ruth Vitale
RUTH VITALE: Senator Blackburn, thank you so much for agreeing to be interviewed. You have been a devoted supporter of creative people and their rights. How did you come to be interested in intellectual property and copyright policy? MARSHA BLACKBURN: Living around Nashville, you are living in the world’s greatest... Read more
By: Ruth Vitale
We have a long and frustrating history on piracy and other copyright matters with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). We’ve said it before – EFF sometimes does good work. That’s what makes their predictable intransigence about piracy so incredibly frustrating and tiresome. Recently, EFF weighed in against efforts by the... Read more