Writer, director, and producer Ryan Coogler’s Sinners—a provocative, socially conscious, genre-blending film—has kept audiences buzzing for over a month. Coogler […]

Risheek Priyadarshi · May 28, 2025

For decades, warnings about the dangers of digitization to the entertainment industry have dominated the public narrative. Creators and consumers […]

Trevor Wagener · January 23, 2024

Continuing the theme of the previous post in this series, COVID-19 has also influenced the film, television, and video game […]

Ethan Wham · September 4, 2020

As DisCo has been covering, the global public health crisis is impacting all aspects of daily life, shifting how people […]

Ali Sternburg · April 10, 2020

Two Dutch organizations, the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law and the research firm Ecorys, just released a Global […]

Jonathan Band · August 2, 2018

Today’s opening of the film Dirty 30 provides the latest example of the Internet helping grow the entertainment industry by […]

Jonathan Band · September 23, 2016

On Wednesday, NPR ran a story on composer Michael Giacchino that highlights the importance of fair use copying to the […]

Jonathan Band · June 12, 2015

In a Bloomberg Businessweek interview last month, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom talked extensively about copyright and business models.  Dotcom, who […]

Matt Schruers · June 2, 2015

Among the most powerful moments of Selma, the new film about the march Martin Luther King, Jr. led in 1965 […]

Jonathan Band · December 29, 2014

The Oscars this past Sunday night demonstrate the continuing vibrancy of the film industry, notwithstanding dire declarations of the harm […]

Jonathan Band · March 7, 2014