What if you woke up one day to discover that a website you use almost every day seemingly no longer exists? Instead, when you enter the website’s URL, you see a splash page informing you that the site has been blocked in the U.S. pursuant to a federal court order. Or maybe you just get a 404 error. Unfortunately, if…

The forces of rent-seeking and monopoly notched a victory earlier this month when a district court in Delaware ruled that an AI-powered legal search engine trained on questions based on factual restatements of public domain legal opinions was somehow a threat to human creativity. As the first case to apply fair use to a self-described artificial intelligence tool, the opinion…

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…