By Ruth Vitale It looks like Google’s propaganda machine is set on autocomplete – and keeps delivering the wrong answer. Just about every time the conversation turns to reducing piracy, Google and its shills go into the wolf cry of SOPA. (See Google lawyer Marvin Ammori’s absurd article in Slate... Read more
LOS ANGELES – Last Tuesday, television writer and producer Eli Attie and FX Networks and FX Productions CEO John Landgraf sat down with CreativeFuture Executive Director Ruth Vitale to talk about the creative process behind some of the most critically acclaimed shows on television. Vitale moderated the keynote conversation at... Read more
A new report shows that the creative industries whose businesses are built on copyright generated over $1.1 trillion dollars and 5.5 million jobs for the U.S. economy in 2013, an increase from 2012 numbers. Creative industries grew at a faster rate (3.9%) than the overall U.S. economy (2.25%) from 2009... Read more
In September, KPMG released a report that showed the vast majority of the top films and television shows are legally available to U.S. audiences. On Monday, KPMG published a second report that looked at digital access in United Kingdom. Both reports demonstrate the tremendous progress that entertainment companies have made... Read more
CreativeFuture is a proud sponsor of the 2014 Horizon Award – a new annual scholarship awarded to talented, up-and-coming female directors. The winner of the award will receive $10,000 and a trip to the Sundance Film Festival in January, where she will have the opportunity to have her work viewed... Read more
On September 7, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) hosted a panel discussion with film industry experts on new digital distribution strategies and the importance of intellectual property to filmmaking. The panel included Edward Humphrey, Director of Digital, British Film Institute; Christine Vachon, Principal/Producer, Killer Films (Boys Don’t Cry, One... Read more
By Ruth Vitale It’s a frequently asked question when I am speaking at conferences, universities, and film festivals: Why is it so hard to find legal content? I hear it from creative professionals who have come across websites they cannot be sure are legal, parents who want their kids to... Read more
By CreativeFuture “Matt Mason must have a guilty conscience,” CreativeFuture Executive Director Ruth Vitale wrote today in a Billboard Magazine op-ed, while challenging BitTorrent to use some of its technical know-how to combat the misuse of its protocol for piracy. Last week, Mason made the laughable claim that his company... Read more
(New York) – Oscar-winning filmmaker Bruce Cohen and CreativeFuture Executive Director Ruth Vitale teamed up Tuesday night to discuss the challenges and opportunities for today’s filmmakers. The discussion, part of a special Artist Academy edition of NYFF Live, was held at Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.... Read more
Last Sunday, The New York Times ran an article on Hana Beshara, the founder of the pirate website NinjaVideo who was convicted for conspiracy and criminal copyright infringement and served 16 months in prison. The story raised more than a few eyebrows for its sympathetic treatment of Beshara, whose only... Read more