For
Immediate Release: Within the next 24 hours the Pied Pipers of
Piracy Will Steal $2 Billion Of Intellectual Property. Some of it may be
yours!
Overview: Special half-hour to focus on Intellectual
Property Rights begins airing Saturday, March 25 on PBS-member stations in the
USA. The Voice of America will begin airing this episode show around the world
in August 2006.
For more information: Contact Bruce Camber -
214.378.1118
To interview for radio or television, contact Hattie Bryant
directly at 214.378.1117
They're everywhere. And they're magical. One
called, The Napster, gets stopped and The Grokster pops up. Stop The Grokster
and another pops up. Overnight! 30 million followers... That's very special
Piper music. People forget who they are and become glutinous. "More music! Give
me anything for free!"
This moral pandemic can kill us.
While
most of us were sleeping, an entire college generation was enlisted, first by
Napster then by Grokster, to become digital pirates and rip off artists because
it was quick, easy, free and anonymous. Otherwise decent people began acting
and thinking like common thieves. As quickly as one is shut down, the next pops
up
In a fast-paced half-hour, this national weekly television show (PBS-member stations), Small Business School,
goes behind the scenes of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp in Los Angeles to
find two lawyers who took on Napster and Grokster and won.
Or did they?
Intellectual property is increasingly the prime mover of the global
economy, yet $600 billion of it is pirated annually, posing a threat to all
businesses.
The episode aims to join with those calling for a new wave
of public education about intellectual property, and provide tips and
techniques to help protect the IP of small business owners
worldwide.
The program also features:
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Daniel Walker, a composer, to highlight how three professional organizations -
ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC - fight for the royalties and rights protection of
artists, and why all other trade associations need to follow suit.
»
Bob Tarcea, who with Joseph Garcia opened the world of signing to babies.
Tarcea talks about young mothers who have confessed to copying his copyrighted
materials. He's also trying to stop a British man who uses eBay to blatantly
rip him off.
»
Experts at MacroVision and Microsoft, software firms trying to add some
"friction" to slow the rip-off process.
This episode of Small Business School begins
airing this weekend on PBS member stations. The Voice of America will air this
episode worldwide in August 2006.
About Small Business School:
Since 1994 a weekly, half-hour television show airs on PBS-member stations in
the USA, hundreds of Canadian cable stations, and thousands of cable stations
throughout the world. The series has been dubbed in Mandarin, French, Spanish,
Arabic, and Russian.
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For more:
Broadcast
schedules (for just two weeks and then streaming video):
/webapp/sbs/IntellectualProperty/video.jsp
Home page for this episode:
/webapp/sbs/IntellectualProperty/homepage.jsp
The executive summary or overview:
/webapp/sbs/IntellectualProperty/profile.jsp
The transcript:
/webapp/sbs/IntellectualProperty/transcript.jsp
The case study guide:
/webapp/sbs/IntellectualProperty/guide.jsp
Please note:
Hi-resolution pics
are available upon request.
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