CID: Report from NAMAC

For those of you who don’t know, I recently moved to Austin, and I very much wanted to attend the recent NAMAC conference. But, just starting a new job and getting settled in my new place made that a tall order. The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture is a service organization for media [...]

Pretty sobering reminder of media consolidation via NY Times. “In the fall of 2003, a piece of Rupert Murdoch’s sprawling media empire was in jeopardy.Congress was on the verge of limiting any company from owning local television stations that reached more than 35 percent of American homes. Mr. Murdoch’s Fox stations reached nearly 39 percent, [...]

User-Generated Video Creators on Copyright

A new report from the Center for Social Media’s Pat Aufderheide and Wasington College of Law’s Peter Jaszi: The Good, The Bad and the Confusing: User-Generated Video Creators on Copyright. From the Center’s website: “How do creators of content on the plethora of sites that accept online video understand their rights and responsibilities regarding intellectual [...]

Report: How Artists Build Careers

The Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota recently released a report by the Project on Regional and Industrial Economics (PRIE) entitled “Crossover: How Artists Build Careers Across Commercial, Nonprofit and Community Work” (download the PDF for free).
From the website, “this study finds that many artists’ work spans two or [...]