Copyright Alliance's Podcast

Copyright Alliance's Podcast episodes:

• 08.25.2015

  Creative Works: Dena Seidel: Restrictions

  Rutgers filmmaking professor Dena Seidel explains how the restrictions imposed by copyright protection promote new collaborate and creative relationships.

  
• 07.28.2015

  Creative Works: David Cote

  David Cote, theater critic for Time Out New York, explains his writing process and why reviews are an important part of experiencing art and culture.

  
• 06.09.2015

  Creative Works: Ross Shain

  Visual effects artist and software developer Ross Shain talks about his Academy Award winning software, Mocha, a leading application for rotoscoping and planar tracking.

  
• 06.04.2015

  Copyright in Context: Ross Shain

  Software developer Ross Shain explains why it is important to pay for software just as anyone would pay for any tool that makes professional work easier. 

  
• 06.02.2015

  Creative Works: Kevin McMahon

  Music producer Kevin McMahon talks about the role he plays to both protect and direct artists in the production of an album that achieves their vision.

  
• 05.05.2015

  Freedom

  This video mission statement for The Copyright Alliance explains why copyright is central to freedom.

  
• 04.07.2015

  Creative Works: Dan Mirvish: Indie Filmmaking

  Filmmaker Dan Mirvish discusses independent film production, explaining some of the logic that drives budget decisions.

  
• 04.02.2015

  Creative Works: Dan Mirvish: Slamdance

  Filmmaker and co-founder of Slamdance Film Festival Dan Mirvish explains how the festival began and the evolving relationship with Sundance.

  
• 03.31.2015

  Creative Works: Jordan Roberts

  Screenwriter & Filmmaker Jordan Roberts describes the process of self-financing his indie film “3,2,1 Frankie Go Boom” and the effect of piracy on future investment.

  
• 03.05.2015

  Creative Works: Pilar Alessandra

  Pilar Alessandra discusses her job helping screenwriters perfect their scripts and explains how pride and a sense of ownership over their work pushes writers to create original and entertaining stories.

  
• 03.03.2015

  Creative Works: Brian Lerch

  Brian Lerch, Head of Post Production at Rock Shrimp Productions, talks about the process and skills required to finish some of the most popular culinary shows on TV.

  
• 02.24.2015

  Creative Works: Jordu Schell

  Monster maker Jordu Schell describes his journey to becoming an artist, beginning with his childhood fascination with sci-fi, horror, and fantasy films of the 1970s. He talks about his creative process and collaborating with film directors.

  
• 02.19.2015

  Copyright in Context: Michael Grecco Part 3

  Photographer and director Michael Grecco offers caveats about putting work on social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram.

  
• 02.17.2015

  Copyright in Context: Michael Grecco Part 2

  Photographer and director Michael Grecco tell us about how learned about copyright "the hard way."

  
• 02.12.2015

  Copyright in Context: Michael Grecco Part 1

  Photographer and director Michael Grecco debunks the fallacy that the money paid for an artist’s work never goes to the artist.

  
• 02.10.2015

  Copyright in Context: Ellen Seidler Part 2

  Filmmaker Ellen Seidler shares some insights about how to prevent the viral spread of pirated content.

  
• 02.05.2015

  Copyright in Context: Ellen Seidler Part 1

  Filmmaker Ellen Seidler says sharing is not caring. There is an entire black market that thrives on stealing artists’ work.

  
• 02.03.2015

  Perspectives: David Price

  David Price, Director of Piracy & Counterfeit Analysis at NetNames, discusses his new report "Behind the Cyberlocker Door," published in collaboration with Digital Citizens Alliance.  Price discusses the profitability from hosting infringing material and the role of legitimate payment processors...

  
• 01.29.2015

  Copyright in Context: Jordu Schell Part 2

  Monster maker Jordu Schell explains how he has dealt with plagiarists.

  
• 01.27.2015

  Copyright in Context: Jordu Schell Part 1

  Monster maker Jordu Schell urges aspiring artists to rely on their own imaginations rather than other people’s work.

  
• 01.13.2015

  Creative Works: David Parker

  Choreographer and co-founder of dance company The Bang Group, David Parker talks about the art of using rhythm to communicate, and he describes the inspiration behind one of his most well-known dance pieces in which he and his partner wear...

  
• 01.08.2015

  CA Connects with Siggy Ferstl

  Hosted by the Creative Rights Caucus of the U.S. Congress, the event "Beyond the Red Carpet" in Washington, D.C. showcased the work of craftspeople working behind the scenes in TV and motion picture production.  In this interview, the Copyright Alliance...

  
• 01.06.2015

  CA Connects with Phillip Boutte Jr.

  Hosted by the Creative Rights Caucus of the U.S. Congress, the event "Beyond the Red Carpet" in Washington, D.C. showcased the work of craftspeople working behind the scenes in TV and motion picture production.  In this interview the Copyright Alliance...

  
• 01.01.2015

  CA Connects with Jackeline Tejada

  Hosted by the Creative Rights Caucus of the U.S. Congress, the event "Beyond the Red Carpet" in Washington, D.C. showcased the work of craftspeople working behind the scenes in TV and motion picture production. In this interview, the Copyright Alliance...

  
• 12.30.2014

  CA Connects with Cig Neutron

  Hosted by the Creative Rights Caucus of the U.S. Congress, the event "Beyond the Red Carpet" in Washington, D.C. showcased the work of craftspeople working behind the scenes in TV and motion picture production. In this interview, the Copyright Alliance...

  
• 12.25.2014

  CA Connects with Donna Zakowska

  Hosted by the Creative Rights Caucus of the U.S. Congress, the event "Beyond the Red Carpet" in Washington, D.C. showcased the work of craftspeople working behind the scenes in TV and motion picture production. In this video, the Copyright Alliance...

  
• 12.23.2014

  CA Connects with Rosanne Cash & John Leventhal

  We talk to singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash and composer John Leventhal (husband & partner) at the Americana Music Fest NYC at Lincoln Center 2014.  Rosanne and John tell us about their new album The River & The Thread; about their approach to the...

  
• 12.18.2014

  Perspectives: Chris Pennington

  Chris Pennington, Executive Director of the Jerome Robbins Foundation, provides an overview of Jerome Robbins's significance in American dance and discusses the management of rights to the choreographer's works.

  
• 12.16.2014

  CA Connects with Zachary Maxwell

  The Copyright Alliance speaks with young filmmaker Zachary Maxwell at our Inaugural OneVoi©e Event. He talks about his latest documentary Anatomy of Snow Day, which investigates the complicated decision-making process city officials go through when deciding whether to shut down...

  
• 12.11.2014

  CA Connects with Thom Niemann

  The Copyright Alliance speaks with Fordham University theater student Thom Niemann at our Inaugural OneVoi©e Event. He talks about his aspirations as an actor and current opportunities in the entertainment industry. 

  
• 12.09.2014

  CA Connects with Paige Campbell

  The Copyright Alliance speaks with filmmaker and NYU grad Paige Campbell at our Inaugural OneVoi©e Event. She talks about her upcoming film Vanitas, her thoughts about DIY filmmaking, and the state of the industry.

  
• 11.20.2014

  Creative Works: Doug Menuez

  Photographer Doug Menuez describes his career and his experiences capturing the images for his newly published book, Fearless Genius, depicting the spirit of the pioneer founders of Silicon Valley in the early 1990s.

  
• 09.30.2014

  CA Connects with Jed Hilly

  We talk to Jed Hilly, Executive Director of the Americana Music Association.  Excited to be hosting the Americana Music Fest for the first time in his native New York City, Jed’s passion for this genre of music and his commitment to...

  
• 08.28.2014

  Creative Works: Andrew Harnik

  Washington Times political and sports photographer Andrew Harnik tells the stories behind some of his most famous photographs and explains what it takes to capture people at both their best and most vulnerable moments.

  
• 08.26.2014

  Creative Works: Kat Caverly

  Multi-media artist, Kat Caverly gives us a glimpse into her life and career as a creative individual. She is a classic example of the artist who turns every experience into some form of expression, never giving up, never not looking...

  
• 08.14.2014

  Perspectives: David Kappos Part 2

  IP attorney David Kappos of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP says that part of the solution to the digital-age copyright challenge will be for consumers to start to see themselves as creators of content that is worthy of respect.

  
• 08.12.2014

  Perspectives: David Kappos Part 1

  IP attorney David Kappos of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP discusses the opportunity the United States has to  play a leadership role in the changing copyright landscape in the digital age.

  
• 08.05.2014

  Interview with Kevin Lester

  David Newhoff speaks with Singapore musician Kevin Lester, an award-winning hip hop artist, writer, and producer. They discuss the role that a new generation of artists like Kevin are playing in helping to develop a sustainable creative industry. Kevin speaks...

  
• 07.31.2014

  Interview with Jennifer Lyn Morone Part 2

  This is part II of David Newhoff’s conversation with Jennifer Lyn Morone, an artist who has incorporated herself in order to confront some of the social, economic, and existential questions we face in the digital age.

  
• 07.29.2014

  Interview with Jennifer Lyn Morone Part 1

  In part I of this podcast, David Newhoff talks with Jennifer Lyn Morone, who is in the start-up phase of bringing to market Jennifer Lyn Monroe™ Incorporated.  An American artist who has lived in Europe more than a decade, Morone...

  
• 07.24.2014

  Interview with Parry Teasdale

  In this podcast, David Newhoff interviews Parry Teasdale, Editor-in-Chief of The Columbia Paper, which serves a small, rural community in the Hudson Valley. They discuss Teasdale’s involvement in the new media vanguard of the late 1960s and early 1970s (when...

  
• 07.22.2014

  Interview with Chris Ruen Part 2

  This is Part II of David Newhoff’s interview with Chris Ruen, author of Freeloading: How Our Insatiable Hunger for Free Content Starves Creativity. 

  
• 07.17.2014

  Interview with Chris Ruen Part 1

  David Newhoff speaks with Chris Ruen, author of the book Freeloading: How Our Insatiable Hunger for Free Content Starves Creativity.  Ruen’s book provides a glimpse into his personal transition from consumer of free media to advocate for artists’ rights and...

  
• 07.15.2014

  Creative Works: Michael Grecco

  Michael Grecco briefly discusses his work as a celebrity, journalistic, and commercial photographer and the lighting books he has written. As a professional photographer in the digital age, he describes both the business sense required to be successful in the...

  
• 07.10.2014

  Creative Works: Matthew Harrison

  New York filmmaker Matthew Harrison discusses his film Rhythm Thief, which won the Sundance Jury Prize in 1995.  Inspired by anti-bootlegging campaigns of the 1990s, Harrison talks about wanting to make a film that is of a time and place...

  
• 05.27.2014

  Creative Works: Judy Chu

  Representative Judy Chu of California discusses the founding of the Creative Rights Caucus and describes the events they are organizing to promote artists rights and highlight the importance of creative occupations around the country.

  
• 05.13.2014

  Creative Works: Jeff Pirtle

  NBCUniversal Studios chief archivist Jeff Pirtle shares some assets from the studio's collection, including the minute book from the founding of Universal.  Jeff describes his role in preserving assets used in motion pictures, including set plans, vintage posters, and costumes....

  
• 05.08.2014

  Creative Works: Poppy Cannon-Reese

  Poppy Cannon-Reese gives a tour of the NBCUniversal costume rental facility, showing costumes such as those created for the movies Oblivion and 47 Ronin.  Poppy describes the collaboration between the director, costume designer, and actor to make a character jump...

  
• 04.22.2014

  Creative Works: Avallone

  Filmmaker David Avallone discusses the work of his father, Michael Avallone, author of the Ed Noon detective series.  Having inherited the rights to his father’s novels, Avallone discusses the process of making these works newly available as eBooks and self-promoting...

  
• 04.15.2014

  Creative Works: Cheryl Engelhardt

  In this profile, Cheryl B. Englehardt gives us a glimpse into the world of a contemporary working composer. She discusses her songwriting process and how she manages to strike a balance between composing for clients and composing for her own records.