Fighting Covid-19 with Innovation and Technology
The U.S. Chamber Discover & Deliver initiative is telling the story about the private sectorâs role in bringing the science to life and bringing it to people.
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Kelly Anderson serves as senior director of health and drug policy at the U.S. Chamberâs Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC). Anderson is primarily responsible for leading the Chamberâs Discover & Deliver campaign, which tells the story of the innovative biopharmaceutical industryâs capacity to respond to evolving health threats, such as COVID-19.
Anderson is also the lead of the production and marketing of the U.S. Chamberâs International IP Index. Anderson discusses the reportâs findings with U.S. and foreign government officials, industry stakeholders, and international third party groups. In her eight years at the Chamber, Anderson has presented the U.S. Chamber
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Streaming is a widespread form of entertainment for millions of Americans and its popularity has soared during the pandemic. However, according to a study by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Global Innovation Policy Center from June of 2019, “global online piracy costs the U.S. economy at least $29.2 billion in lost revenue each year.” This significantly affects the stakeholders of major motion pictures, television programs, music, audiobooks, live sports, and pay-per-view programming. After years of pressure from many copyright owners and other entertainment content stakeholders, Congress passed the Protect Lawful Streaming Act (the Act) as part of the December 2020 COVID-19 relief package. The new law addresses a “loophole” in criminal copyright law, under which infringing acts of reproduction or distribution triggered felony penalties yet infringing public performances (such as streaming) merely amounted to
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In our fractured, streaming-saturated age, it’s hard to say what’s the most popular show on television. But the most pirated? That’s easy.
According to TorrentFreak, Disney+’s
The Mandalorian was the year’s most pirated television series, unseating perennial champ
Game of Thrones(which ended its eight-season run in 2019). The Mando and Baby Yoda show was followed by Amazon Prime’s superhero deconstruction
The Boys and HBO’s salacious sci-fi series
TorrentFreak generates its annual list based on traffic data from BitTorrent, a protocol which essentially allows users to share data over the internet. Because it’s not centralized, it’s a super-popular way for people to share entertainment often allowing people to download movies and shows they’d rather not pay for.
Then there are those like Disney who have, for the most part, postponed the majority of their films until 2021 and placed a handful on its own streaming service.
But, box office analysts won t be the only ones keenly watching how these films perform next year. Piracy experts are eagerly anticipating how these new release methods will impact illegal streaming. As a data science researcher, this is a dream, said Brett Danaher, an entertainment analytics and data science professor at Chapman University. It s such a great experiment.
Heading into 2021, piracy experts told CNBC that they have theories about how pirates will react to these different models, but aren t entirely sure what will happen.