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• Happy Holidays From the CreativeFuture Team! December 18, 2024
  Dear Friends, The air at CreativeFuture HQ in Los Angeles has turned to a frigid sixty degrees, and while we shiver to our Californian bones, we know that the turn in weather means the holidays are finally here. As we eagerly await the new year, we’re preparing our wish lists with the hope that we’ll... […]
• A Few of the Creative Works (and Other Things) We’re Grateful for in 2024 November 20, 2024
  Thanksgiving is almost here, which means it’s time to reflect on what we’re grateful for. Or, at least, try. If you’ve read any of our other blogs, you’ll know that here at CreativeFuture, we’re actually more comfortable dishing out sarcastic “thank-yous” than warm, honest ones. Gratitude doesn’t come naturally to us. But, ‘tis the season,... […]
• Amazing Artists and Cultural Destinations near the Twin Cities November 13, 2024
  Once upon a time, a man named Pierre Parrant built a tavern near the headwaters of the Mississippi, on land belonging to the Dakota people. Parrant must have been a mean ugly fellow, because he was known as “Pig’s Eye.” In turn, the village that grew up around him was called Pig’s Eye Landing. Fortunately,... […]

Stephen Carlisle

• The “Art of No Deal” Will Cost Trump Plenty in Copyright Infringement Case September 20, 2024
  On September 13, 2024, a Federal Court Judge issued summary judgement against Donald Trump and his campaign in the long running copyright infringement dispute with Barbadian based musician Eddy Grant over the Trump campaign’s use of Grant’s song “Electric Avenue” in a Trump campaign video. To anyone who read the Judge’s initial ruling denying Trump’s […]
• Appellate Court Rules That “Sophisticated Plaintiffs” Are Entitled to Equal Protection Under the Copyright Laws August 29, 2024
  It’s one of those principles that should not need to be debated: people are entitled to equal protection under the law. Yet strangely, one Federal Court went out of its way to penalize a litigant, because they were a “sophisticated copyright litigator” causing the dismissal of the case. Now, the Second Circuit has weighed in […]
• Court Reaffirms Your Right to Copy-Protect Your Work August 9, 2024
  We use locks constantly in our everyday life. Our houses have locks on them. Our autos have locks on them. Even our interactions on the internet require that our actions are protected by usernames and passwords. It’s only common sense. However, that common sense has eluded the folks over at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They […]

Hugh Stephens Blog

• Government Announces an Artist’s Resale Right Will be Finally Coming to Canada!……Well, Maybe but Don’t Count On It. December 19, 2024
  Image: Author Canada’s long-awaited 2024 Fall Economic Statement, reporting on the country’s finances for 2023-24 and outlining future spending and legislative priorities, was tabled in the House of Commons on December 16. Normally the big news would be that the budget deficit hit almost $62 billion, a 50% increase of almost $22 billion over the […]
• CanLII v CasewayAI: Defendant Trots Out AI Industry’s Misinformation and Scare Tactics (But Don’t Panic, Canada) December 13, 2024
  Image: Pixabay Last month I highlighted the first AI/Copyright case in Canada to reach the courts, CanLII v CasewayAI. CanLII, (the Canadian Legal Information Institute), a non-profit established in 2001 by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, sued Caseway AI, a self-described AI-driven legal research service, for copyright infringement and for violating CanLII’s Terms […]
• India’s Intrusive and Overkill Tobacco Warnings for Streaming Film Content December 6, 2024
  The issue of how to handle smoking in films continues to be a real hot potato in many countries. As the film industry focuses on its responsibility to clearly label content that depicts smoking while avoiding any promotion of smoking in films, health authorities—in their understandable desire to curtail tobacco consumption—sometimes overzealously impose unrealistic conditions […]

Gordon Firemark Podcasts

Content Café – Australia

• Filming snippets in cinemas, is it piracy? November 29, 2024
  A new trend has emerged following the release of Wicked and Deadpool & Wolverine, whereby young viewers are filming critical scenes of the films to post on social media. While […]
• New study links piracy to cyber threats November 29, 2024
  A new study commissioned by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) showed that Filipino consumers who access piracy sites and services are at severe risk of cyber threats such as identity […]
• LaLiga president calls out Big Tech for enabling piracy November 29, 2024
  La Liga president Javier Tebas has accused technology companies of enabling pirate operators by providing the infrastructure needed to distribute content while neglecting their responsibility to take proactive action against […]