The Illusion of More

Contents 00:32 – Tim’s background. 03:07 – Political voiceovers. 04:31 – Voice acting is acting. 06:20 – About NAVA. 10:25 – Size of NAVA and the market. 12:35 – Experiences on the Hill. 17:04 – Economic value of the market. 18:53 – Resistance to the cause. 21:46 – The challenge does not end with licensing. 25:24 – What's resonating on the Hill.  28:55 – No FAKES Act. 33:29 – Reasons why this conv...

Episode Contents 02:37 - Why I fight for artists rights. 07:22 - The biggest threats facing artists. 11:52 - The American Music Fairness Act 16:27 - Dying of “exposure.” 18:40 - A middle-class face on the cause. 24:00 - Spotify’s “big payouts” to artists. 30:00 - Support for the TikTok legislation. 36:10 - Private equity investment in music catalogs. 45:00 - The VanGogh diversion. 46:10 - Advice t...

Pride month is more than celebratory in a time when book bans are on the rise in the United States, and 26% of the titles banned “have LGBTQ+ characters or themes,” according to PEN America. With politicians like Ron DeSantis determined to make “anti-wokeness” part of the Republican brand, this neologism for hate-speech has taken the form of book and media censorship in school and public libraries...

This year’s World IP Day theme celebrates Women and IP: Accelerating Innovation and Creativity,  and for that reason as well as the fact that artificial intelligence dominates all topics these days, my guest for this episode is the highly innovative Carla Diana , whom I first interviewed in 2014 .  Carla is a tech designer, author, and educator. She runs the 4D design program at the Cranbrook Acad...

In March 2020, the Supreme Court delivered its opinion in the case Allen v. Cooper . The outcome was not surprising because the Court affirmed precedent ruling from the late 1990s which held that the 11th Amendment bars suing a state or state actors for damages stemming from intellectual property infringement.   Thus far, I’ve explored the murky waters of state sovereign immunity as it relates to...

Episode Contents 01:47 – Why copyright law? 04:40 – Working in public policy. 07:30 – Public policy and interest in social justice. 08:27 - #BlackTikTokStrike 12:07 – copyright in choreography 19:52 – copyright & cultural misappropriation 24:08 - #BlackTikTokStrike & the Elvis narrative 27:29 – Copyright Alliance BIPOC initiative. 33:46 – dialogue informing the law. 36:06 – responses to the TikTok...

Neil Young pulls his music from Spotify to protest the content on Joe Rogan's podcast, and Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills, and Nash follow suit. It's a big story for a week, and some noise about "cancel culture" and Rogan himself lingers, but we've mostly moved on. Meanwhile, the economic model for music streaming is still broken. Songwriters make pennies for millions of streams, and the dynamic...

01:04 - What the hell is an NFT? 04:42 - Neil on ripoffs of visual art at OpenSea et al. 08:55 - David on the HitPiece ripoff. 14:15 - is it all just fraud? 20:20 - environmental impact. 22:16 - reasons why NFTs might have come about. 26:09 - a solution for artists? 32:33 - any legitimacy at all? 35:57 - regulation by federal or state agencies. 39:11 - there is no there there. 44:13 - scope of inv...

Episode Contents 00:00:55 - David Golumbia background. 00:03:24 - Facebook loves fascism. 00:08:24 - Defining "right" vs. proto-fascism. 00:11:36 - Paths to authoritarianism. 00:13:50 - mysticism and fascism. 00:18:56 - Facebook's astrology  TV spot. 00:23:48 - More subtle forces driving division. 00:32:02 - Facebook is too good for democracy. 00:36:32 - Better/more information is not a solution....

Piracy of creative works like motion pictures, TV shows, music, and live sports is a vast and growing criminal enterprise. In its latest report, Digital Citizens Alliance estimates the combined advertising and subscription revenue generated by piracy is at least $2.34 billion annually. Meanwhile, in addition to its ill-effects on the creators whose works are pirated and the online advertising ecos...

In this post , I wrote about some of the difficulties that U.S. formalities present to many independent creators, difficulties highlighted by the case Unicolors v. H&M . I cited a paper written by Steven Tepp for the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) and mentioned that I would follow up with a podcast to delve a little deeper into the subject of formalities--those pesky, administrative d...

"Lateef Mtima is a Professor of Law at the Howard University School of Law. After graduating with honors from Amherst College, Professor Mtima received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, where he was the co-founder and later editor-in-chief of the Harvard BlackLetter Journal." Visit Professor Mtima's website. Show Contents 1:07 - Defining social justice in an IP context. 7:54 - Distinguishin...

O'Connell's photo recently won the Off the Clock 2021 Best in Show from American Photographic Artists (APA).   Read interview here. Visit Eric O'Connell's website . Contents 2:06 – How do you describe or think about your work? 4:37 – Visual anthropology 6:25 – German Cowboys Series 8:50 – Native Americans & Heavy Metal series 12:28 – Reactions to the German Cowboys 16:44 – Pandemic (parents) serie...

You wouldn’t think that a state entity would have the right to seize your intellectual property any more than it would have the right to seize other forms of property without due process. But it can. Rick Allen is the CEO of Nautilus Productions in North Carolina. He spent seventeen years documenting the research and recovery work done on Blackbeard’s flagship the Queen Anne’s Revenge , after it w...

As Facebook's oversight board is established, and we continue to grapple with the difficulties of social media platform moderation, I invited Dr. Katell onto the podcast to talk about the issues.  Dr. Michael Katell is a Postdoctoral Research Associate for Data Science and Ethics in the Criminal Justice System working within the Public Policy Programme. He is a technology policy scholar and a phil...

In 2015, the American Law Institute announced that it would produce a Restatement of Law for U.S. Copyright. In response, many copyright advocates, as well as the Copyright Office and Congress, expressed some deep concerns with the project. Chief among these is the fact that the ALI has never in its hundred-year history issued a Restatement in any area of primarily statutory law.   See IOM blog po...