Notice and Takedown: Housed within section 512(c) of the Copyright Act, Notice and Takedown is a process in which a copyright holder can report allegedly infringing content posted by a user online to the relevant online service provider (OSP), who then removes it upon review. The alleged infringer has an opportunity to issue a “counter-notice” certifying that their use is…

Last week, the US Copyright Office published the second report in its series on artificial intelligence and copyright. As James Grimmelmann told The Washington Post, “If you make art with the help of AI, it’s copyrightable. If you ask AI to make art for you, it’s not.” The Office also concluded that “the case has not been made” for a…

Re:Create is a coalition founded to engage policymakers and the public on how balanced copyright enables free expression, creativity, and innovation. Collectively, the members of Re:Create represent over 100,000 libraries that are visited by the public 1.5 billion times per year; public interest think tanks and legal teams that fight censorship by repressive regimes globally and defend free expression, privacy,…

Washington, D.C. – Following the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) release of part two of its report on Copyright and AI, focusing on the copyrightability of AI outputs, Re:Create Executive Director Brandon Butler issued the following statement.  “Re:Create welcomes the U.S. Copyright Office’s latest report on AI, and we applaud the office for concluding  that our existing balanced copyright framework is…

Washington, D.C. – Following Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)’s introduction of the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA) Re:Create Executive Director Brandon Butler issued the following statement in opposition to this legislation.  “FADPA and similar ‘site-blocking’ proposals would give Big Content the internet killswitch it has sought for decades. Copyright is hotly contested and infamously easy to use as a cudgel against…

Copyright affects all Americans – from business owners to artists, platforms, libraries, social media users, academics, students, and so many more. On the first day of Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)’s Copyright Week 2025, themed “Copyright Policy Should Be Made in the Open With Input From Everyone,” it’s crucial to emphasize that the interests and communities impacted by copyright policy extend…

Next week is Copyright Week, and as usual Re:Create member the Electronic Frontier Foundation has done an excellent job laying out themes for each day that are both timely and timeless. We’ll be highlighting Re:Create member contributions to the conversation all week long, but as a preview I thought I might get a head start by doing a two-sentence post…