My Role as CEO of the Copyright Alliance

• Author: Keith Kupferschmid
• Position: Keith Kupferschmid is the CEO of the Copyright Alliance. Before joining the Alliance, Keith served as the general counsel and senior vice president for intellectual property for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). During his 16 years at SIIA, he represented and advised SIIA member software and content companies on...
• Pages: 35-36

My Role as

CEO

of

the

Copyright

Alliance

By Keith Kupferschmid

For almost two years, I have been proud to serve as the CEO of the Copyright

Alliance, and to speak on behalf of the copyright community. The Copyright

Alliance represents the copyright interests of over 1.8 million individual cre-

ators and over 13,000 organizations in the United States, and is dedicated to

advocating policies that promote and preserve the value of copyright and

to protecting the rights of creators and innovators.

In addition to our membership, we also have three active advisory boards—a Legal

Advisory Board (LAB), Academic Advisory Board (AAB), and Creators Advisory Board

(CAB). The members of these boards work closely with the Copyright Alliance members

and staff on various copyright policy and enforcement issues facing our constituents.

The copyright community is a very diverse group. Our members are authors, pho-

tographers, performers, artists, software developers, musicians, journalists, directors,

songwriters, game designers, and many others. The Alliance also counts as its members

book publishers, motion picture studios, software companies, music publishers, sound

recording companies, sports leagues, broadcasters, guilds, newspaper and magazine pub-

lishers, and many more organizations.

Keith Kupferschmid is the CEO of the

Copyright Alliance. Before joining the Alliance,

Keith served as the general counsel and senior

vice president for intellectual property for the

Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA).

During his 16 years at SIIA, he represented and advised

SIIA member software and content companies on

intellectual property (IP) policy, legal, and enforcement

matters. He has testied before Congress and various

federal and state government agencies on IP issues and also

supervised SIIA’s Anti-Piracy Division.

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