Documentary Gets Green Light Thanks to Jack Lerner & USC Law Clinic

When Brian Gillogly set out to make his documentary, Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story, which screens on Aug. 14 at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, he thought his greatest challenge would be to convince Kathy Zuckerman – the real woman behind Gidget – to cooperate. That was far from the case. Gillogly actually faced his highest hurdle over copyright issues for the "Gidget" television shows and movies. He couldn't afford the licensing fees to use the footage, and believed his project was doomed. That's when Gillogly solicited advice from USC Law's Intellectual Property and Technology Clinic and its director,……Continue Reading Documentary Gets Green Light Thanks to Jack Lerner & USC Law Clinic

Technology and Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Research Team Travels to Mekong Sub-Region

TIP is the first in a series of projects that CCLP is coordinating with the US State Department on how technology can be utilized in foreign policy and global affairs. The Mekong Sub-Region is an area which comprises Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Yunnan China and Burma and has high levels of TIP and modern day slavery. Within the region, the team will focus research on Thailand and Cambodia. The main goal of this trip is to begin the preliminary development and design of a TIP Information Sharing Platform (ISP), a mobile and web-based system to help NGOs, social service providers,……Continue Reading Technology and Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Research Team Travels to Mekong Sub-Region

Reinventing Local News: 2010 details how technology and innovation may save local news

While revenues decline for traditional media organizations despite high demand for news and information, technology and innovation may be saving local news, according to Reinventing Local News: 2010, a report released by the University of Southern California's Center on Communication Leadership & Policy at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. In Reinventing Local News: 2010, Adam Clayton Powell III updates his landmark 2006 book Reinventing Local News: Connecting Communities Through New Technologies…….Continue Reading Reinventing Local News: 2010 details how technology and innovation may save local news

CCLP partners with State Department for Democracy Video Challenge

The Center on Communication Leadership and Policy is proud to announce its partnership in the Democracy Video Challenge, an innovative contest created by the United States Department of State to engage global citizens in a dialogue about democracy. The USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism is part of a public-private partnership that includes the Center for International Private Enterprise, the International Republican Institute, the International Youth Foundation, the Motion Picture Association of America, NBC Universal, the National Democratic Institute, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, the Recording Industry Association of America, Taking IT Global, YouTube, and the U.S. State……Continue Reading CCLP partners with State Department for Democracy Video Challenge

Today’s politics lacks key ingredient

These are serious times for our country — from challenges abroad, to our crippled economy, to the tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico. With events filtered through a partisan midterm election and a heat wave smothering the nation's capital, it seems the first thing to wilt is Washington's sense of humor. Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Jay Leno and the rest of the late-night crowd continue to hold their own. But the ability of elected officials to indulge in a good collective laugh — not to make light of serious situations but to ease tensions — has become a too-rare civility……Continue Reading Today’s politics lacks key ingredient