Episodes
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Creative Works: Dena Seidel: Restrictions
Rutgers filmmaking professor Dena Seidel explains how the restrictions imposed by copyright protection promote new collaborate and creative relationships.
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Creative Works: Dena Seidel
Rutgers filmmaking professor Dena Seidel discusses her latest film, Antarctic Edge: 70 Degrees South, and explains why building trusting relationships and mutual respect is paramount to great narrative filmmaking.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Freedom
This video mission statement for The Copyright Alliance explains why copyright is central to freedom.
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Creative Works: Dan Mirvish: Indie Filmmaking
Filmmaker Dan Mirvish discusses independent film production, explaining some of the logic that drives budget decisions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Copyright in Context: Michael Grecco Part 2
Photographer and director Michael Grecco tell us about how learned about copyright "the hard way."
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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.
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Copyright in Context: Ellen Seidler Part 2
Filmmaker Ellen Seidler shares some insights about how to prevent the viral spread of pirated content.
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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.
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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...
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Copyright in Context: Jordu Schell Part 2
Monster maker Jordu Schell explains how he has dealt with plagiarists.
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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.
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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 Velcro suits. He also talks about the challenges of…
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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 speaks with colorist Siggy Ferstl about the...
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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 speaks with Star Trek costume illustrator...
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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 speaks with “Blue Bloods” editor Jackeline...
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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 speaks with effects makeup artist Cig…
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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 discusses the creation of 18th century costumes...
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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 creative process; and about their views of the music...
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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.
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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 New York City...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 artists comes through in this brief interview filmed at Lincoln...
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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.
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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 for the next thing, and never losing her sense of humor.
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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.
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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.
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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 about his attraction to hip hop as an...
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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.
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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 has chosen to address the current social, economic, and existential...
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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 portable video cameras were just...
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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.
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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 a more rational conversation about...
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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 field and the importance of...
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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 yet holds up even decades later.
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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.
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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. His favorite part…
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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 from the page to the screen.
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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 Ed Noon via social media.