Re:Create issued the following statement prior to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s markup of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), S.1094:
“The JCPA is a handout for Big Media conglomerates and hedge funds at the expense of local and independent news. Re:Create urges the Committee to seriously consider the ways this legislation will hurt journalist jobs, incentivize misinformation and clickbait, grant ownership in facts, destroy copyright law and hurt consumers’ access to reliable and valuable information about their local communities.”
Bipartisan Civil Society and Independent Outlets Raise Significant Concerns with JCPA
- Why Digital Rights Advocates, Librarians, Tech and Experts Oppose the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act (JCPA)
- Public Knowledge: Faulty ‘Journalism’ Bill Will Undermine Open Internet and Free Speech Online
- Dr. Benjamin Chavis, National Newspaper Publishers Association: JCPA Is A Blank Check for Large Corporate Media, but Leaves Small Minority-Owned News Out in the Cold
- American Action Forum: The Price of Digital Ink
- NetChoice: Senate Must Again Reject Klobuchar’s Pro-Collusion Journalism Competition and Preservation Act
- CCIA: The JCPA Hasn’t Improved with Age
- Free Press: Congress Could Sneak a Bad Journalism Bill into Legislation
- Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers: Why We Oppose the JCPA