Where Do You Get Your Music?

Leaders from the worlds of music, film and television, sports, technology, marketing, and business converged on Capital Hill yesterday to launch the new Copyright Alliance, Variety reports. The pro-copyright coalition consists of 29 organizations including local mega-corp Microsoft, MLB, Walt Disney, MPAA, and Viacom. Viacom is currently pursuing a giant case against Google's YouTube. The new watch-dog organization boasts 11 million workers and has the mission "to provide educational resources and promote creativity, jobs and growth through copyright."

The formation of Copyright Alliance comes just days after everyone's favorite Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, sent forth legislation to increase jail time for copyright law offenders. He went so far as to propose a new crime, "Attempted Copyright Infringement." Bad news for YouTube and Peer-2-Peer sharing? Um, yes. This unprecedented, unified effort could change the way you look at your iPod, your fake Louie, and your de-scrambled cable box.

A new Intellectual Property Rights threat list was revealed yesterday in Washington as well. Variety writes, "The IAPC list includes Canada, which the USTR omitted from its list, much to the distress of the movie industry because of concerns about proliferating illegal camcording north of the border." Those damn Canucks and their illegal camcorders...