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Perspective

Apr. 30, 2013

Silicon Valley artists need IP protection, too

Today's artist drives revenue primarily through licensing of content. And more often than not, today's artist - not the label - owns the content, but he or she may not understand or appreciate this fact. By Marcela Davison Avilés


By Marcela Davison Avilés


"What do we need music to do? How do we visit the land in our head and the place in our heart that music takes us to? Can I get a round-trip ticket?" - David Byrne


The arts and entertainment scene in Silicon Valley is vibrant, innovative, and most of all, entertaining and commercially viable. But in a region that is envied all over the world for its technology entrepreneurship, our regional artists and entertainers o...

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