BTB #202: Licensing: The Sequel (Part 2)

At Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Copyright Clearance Center joined with the school and LexisNexis on November 8, 2010 to present The Intellectual Property Lecture Series. In this second of two installments for “Licensing: The Sequel,” CCC’s Vice President...

BTB #201: Licensing: The Sequel (Part 1)

At Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Copyright Clearance Center joined with the school and LexisNexis on November 8, 2010 to present The Intellectual Property Lecture Series. In this first of two installments presenting “Licensing: The Sequel,” entertainment...

BTB #200: Ingram’s Prichard on Reinventing Publishing

At PubWest 2010 in November, Skip Prichard, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ingram Content Group, Inc. delivered a keynote address that urged his audience to embrace the new and rethink the old, when it comes to business models for publishing. By moving...

BTB #199: Copyright and the Economics of Creativity

Does the Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2004 sufficiently meet the demands of the digital age? This morning on Capitol Hill, New York Newsday Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellis Henican moderated a lively discussion that addressed this question,...

BTB #197: ‘Content’ Gets A Rules Book

“When everything else fails, read the instructions.” That was the sage advice of the Sage of Concord, Henry David Thoreau. Chris Kenneally has just finished reading the instructions for content creation and distribution in the digital age, as written by two pioneers...

BTB #196: A Web Without Cookies

The Semantic Web says Tim Berners-Lee, the man who coined the is “a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines.” Perhaps more helpfully, it comprises “methods and technologies to allow machines to understand the meaning – or...

BTB #194: ‘Bubble Bath Reading’ Mystery Revealed

Taking the mystery out of independent publishing, Jessica Tribble of Poisoned Pen Press reveals the truth about genre authors and how they view technology. “These are people who really have the passion for writing,” she tells Chris Kenneally. “They want to make sure...

BTB #193: Books Not Required

At the recently-concluded 2010 IFRRO AGM, which gathered hundreds of author and publication associations and their RRO partners to Boston, publishing pundit Mike Shatzkin moderated a panel discussion, Licensing Business Models for the Future. He gave Chris Kenneally a...