Ad campaign to enhance anti-piracy bill

Hollywood galleries, systems, and guilds and unions, along with other content designers are flowing money right into a broadcast and cable ad campaign, wishing to drum up support for any major bit of anti-piracy legislation, and also to counter intense opposition from online firms and public interest groups. Creative America, a business lately created to arrange industry and grassroots support for that Safeguard IP Act within the Senate and also the Stop Online Piracy Act in the home, stated the advertisements are scheduled to air on broadcast and national cable tv channels, as well as come in print form an internet-based. The campaign is going to be probably the most significant media efforts by Hollywood to create its situation for additional stringent rules in Congress to curb copyright violation on the web. With edgy music as well as an picture of hands typing on the keyboard inside a dim room, the narrator states, "They are stealing American jobs. Internet crooks, using illegal foreign websites." B>a href="http://vimeo.com/33248176" target="_new">The ad/a>/b> requires audiences to make contact with Congress to urge support for that bills. Creative America was created by galleries and unions simply to create anti-piracy issues to position-and-file people of the profession, in addition to everyone. However the effort continues to be overshadowed in recent days as Internet firms like Google, Facebook and Yahoo got a complete page advertisements within the NY Occasions opposing the legislation, and groups like MoveOn and DemandProgress mount viral efforts to urge congress to election from the bills. The advertisements were created by Armour Griffin Media, including creative director Mark Armour and political consultant Chad Griffin. The org also revealed a documentary short, "Content Thievery: The Large Picture," which explores the field of "stolen films and tv on the web.Inch Contact Ted Manley at ted.manley@variety.com