FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2015 LOS ANGELES – More than 100 members of the creative community have signed a letter to U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) thanking him for his leadership in urging the credit card industry to implement voluntary steps that can prevent their services from being misused... Read more
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
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
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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
The vast majority of the most popular films and television shows are legally available online for U.S. audiences, according to a new study from KPMG. The first-of-its-kind comprehensive study analyzed a large sample of 808 films and 724 television shows that was compiled based on popularity with audiences and critical... Read more
By Chris Ortman Disclaimer: CreativeFuture does not encourage physical violence to settle arguments. Fantastic Fest, the genre film festival held each year at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas, has a curious tradition: hosting a series of verbal and physical “debates” that take place inside a boxing ring. On... Read more
The top 30 cyberlockers make nearly $100 million a year from stolen creative works and are facilitated by major credit card companies. That’s a key takeaway from a new report, released today by the Digital Citizens Alliance, providing further proof that piracy is, more than ever, a big business driven... Read more
On Wednesday, CreativeFuture participated in “Beyond the Red Carpet: Movie and TV Magic Day” on Capitol Hill, an event co-hosted by Creative Rights Caucus Co-Chairs, Rep. Judy Chu and Rep. Howard Coble. The event offered a behind-the-scenes look at all the creativity, talent, and innovation that drive the film and... Read more
By Ruth Vitale It’s a simple question, really. How does BitTorrent, Inc. feel about the fact that the peer-to-peer protocol it created is used by millions of people to avoid paying for creative content? After all, its technology has enabled a huge black market for the “sharing” of creative works... Read more