Keith Kupferschmid is President and CEO of the Copyright Alliance, a position he has held since 2015. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Copyright Alliance’s operations—including strategy, government affairs, communications, membership, and liaising with boards and committees. To learn more about his career background and achievements, read Keith's full bio. Below is a compilation of every blog Keith has written for the Copyright Alliance.
Top Ten Things You Need to Know About Filing a Claim with the Copyright Office’s New Small Claims Court
Last week, we published a blog post titled 15 Things You Need to Know About the Copyright Office’s New Small Claims Court that received a huge response. We heard from many readers interested in learning about the new small claims tribunal, called the Copyright Claims Board (CCB), who found this blog very helpful and asked […]
15 Things You Need to Know About the Copyright Office’s New Small Claims Court
With the U.S. Copyright Office’s new small claims court—the Copyright Claims Board (CCB)—launching on June 16, we thought we’d pass along some of the most important information that copyright owners and users should know about this new tribunal. 1. The CCB can hear three types of claims. The CCB can hear three types of claims […]
15 Year Anniversary: An Interview with CEO Keith Kupferschmid
During the month of May, the Copyright Alliance is celebrating its 15th anniversary. To mark the occasion, we asked our CEO Keith Kupferschmid to share his thoughts on this milestone. Check out what he has to say as he reflects on what the Copyright Alliance has accomplished, what it is still working on, and why […]
A SMART New Approach to Combatting Piracy
On March 18, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the SMART (Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies) Copyright Act of 2022, S. 3880. The bill makes amendments to existing section 512(i) and adds a new section—section 514—to the Copyright Act, which establishes a triennial public rulemaking process through which the Librarian of Congress […]
Supreme Court (Finally) Renders a Copyright Decision That’s Not for the Birds
Court Decision in Unicolors v. H&M a Boon for Individual Creators as Court Closes Administrative Loophole Used by Infringers It was about this time last year that we all were inundated by the massive hoopla surrounding the Supreme Court’s decision in Google v. Oracle. But, as we learned from the decision itself and its limited […]
A Copyright Alliance Thanksgiving 2021
I have been at the Copyright Alliance for just over six years now. At this time each year, I’ve taken a step back and made note of various aspects of my work at the Copyright Alliance that I am most thankful for from the past year. In the spirit of this Thanksgiving copyright tradition, I […]
YouTube Infringement Tools Are All Foam and No Beer for Small Creators (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this blog post, we reviewed several YouTube copyright infringement tools that are available to certain copyright owners. These tools included Content ID, Copyright Match, the Content Verification Program, and Manual Claiming, as well as using YouTube’s webform and contacting YouTube’s Designated DMCA Agent. In Part 2 of this blog, we look […]
YouTube Infringement Tools Are All Foam and No Beer for Small Creators (Part 1)
Everything about YouTube is BIG. It is far and away from the most widely used video-sharing platform and, according to SEMRUSH, is the second-most visited website—with the most-visited being its parent company, Google. It boasts more than two billion monthly users who watch more than one billion hours of videos each day and upload more […]
Copyright in 2020: The Year in Review
It has become a tradition of sorts for me to wrap up the previous year with a blog highlighting the most significant copyright actions and events of the year. Normally I embrace the challenge. But, like so many others, I really would prefer not to look back at 2020 if at all possible. By all […]
A Copyright Alliance Thanksgiving
2020 has been a difficult year to say the least. Since 2020 has had enough bad news to complete an entire Billy Joel song, I think it’s more important than ever to take a minute during this holiday season to look back at my last five years at the Copyright Alliance to take stock of the […]