Last week, President Trump signed the Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship, which was a direct attack on the liability protections offered by Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act. These protections launched the commercial internet and secured the United States as the world’s leader in the digital economy. While many are questioning the economic impact of revoking the liability protections…

Outside of the beltway, people all over the United States are taking to the streets to demand fundamental change. In the halls of Congress and the White House, however, many people seem to think the biggest thing that needs to be restructured is the Internet. Last week, the president issued an order taking on one legal foundation for online expression: Section 230. This…

Re:Create: Copyright Office Study Ignores Consumers. In a statement responding to the U.S. Copyright Office 512 study released last week, Re:Create Coalition executive Director Josuha Lamel stated: “While we are happy the report did not call for notice and staydown or siteblocking, the changes being suggested are not the ‘fine-tuning’ the Copyright Office suggests, but rather changes that will have…

Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a legal cornerstone for the internet’s successful and transformative power to grow the American economy, level the playing field, boost access to information and advance global culture. At a time when our entire lives have shifted to online platforms due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the DMCA is perhaps more important…

Today, the Copyright Office released its report on Section 512 of Title 17 U.S. Code, a part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which provides for “Notice and Takedown” of infringing works. Essentially, Section 512 provides a “safe harbor” to internet platforms that promptly remove infringing material upon proper notice from the copyright owner. While the report does not recommend…

Re:Create has launched a blog series, Get to Know Our Members, to help others better understand the type of work Re:Create members do and why they are so motivated by copyright issues. For this post, we heard from Daniel Takash, regulatory policy fellow at the Niskanen Center. 1: What is your organization’s mission? Niskanen Center’s Captured Economy Project works to…

Our friends and right to repair leaders at iFixit are can-do people. If they see a need they can fill, they step up to do it – even if that need is massive. And they’ve done precisely that with a new and user-friendly archive of repair information for mission-critical medical equipment, including easy-to-use repair guides that boil down key information. Thanks to…

High School Drama Students Create Mystery Series For YouTube Channel. When school closures forced drama students at John Burroughs High School in Burbank, CA to cancel their final play, the students decided to create their own multi-part mystery series for YouTube instead. “The opportunity to write and edit, which I really haven’t done much of, has been really, really incredible,”…

Re:Create has launched a blog series, Get to Know Our Members, to help others better understand the different ways Re:Create members work to support balanced copyright laws and why they are so motivated by copyright issues. For this post, we heard from Stan Adams, deputy general counsel & open internet counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). 1: What…

Tiger King Craze Teaches Important Copyright Lessons. In an op-ed for Slate, Re:Create Executive Director Joshua Lamel uses the show that has captivated audiences to raise awareness of fair use protections and abuses of the copyright system. “SLAPP suits are an abuse of our legal system, with people trying to silence or punish critics by subjecting them to lawsuits that…