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| May 6, 2022 | Disney Is Still Trying To Avoid Paying Its Writers | There are all sorts of silly and made up reasons to be mad at Disney, but those shouldn’t take away from the many legitimate ways in which Disney is a terrible, awful company. For years, it was one of the most aggressive in pushing for ever... |
| Mar 21, 2022 | U.S. Senators Introduce SMART Copyright Act to Combat Piracy | For years, U.S. lawmakers have considered options to update the DMCA so it can more effectively deal with today’s online copyright issues.
Senator Thom Tillis was one of the most recent to take up the baton. A little over a year ago, he rel... |
| Feb 23, 2021 | Copyright Coalition Asks President Biden to Help Fight Piracy and Big Tech | Last month, Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States after one of the most controversial elections of modern times.
This change of administration provides an opportunity for special interest groups to call for le... |
| Mar 6, 2020 | Plex Slammed By Huge Copyright Coalition For Not Policing Pirates | In days gone by, living rooms around the world could be found stacked with video cassette tapes full of films and TV shows. Some bought, others recorded at home, these copies would need to be waded through, to find whatever content the owne... |
| Dec 5, 2019 | Why Won't Creative Future's Members Comment About This Hollywood Front Group Smearing A Well Respected Law Professor? | If you look in the dictionary, the word “projection” has many different definitions. I find it particularly amusing that in Merriam Webster’s dictionary, the following two are right next to each other: |
| Dec 5, 2019 | Why Won't Creative Future's Members Comment About This Hollywood Front Group Smearing A Well Respected Law Professor? | If you look in the dictionary, the word "projection" has many different definitions. I find it particularly amusing that in Merriam Webster's dictionary, the following two are right next to each other: |
| Nov 23, 2019 | Microsoft Leaves Anti-Piracy Group After it Scolded EFF’s New Board Chair | In recent years CreativeFuture has been one of the most vocal anti-piracy groups.
The coalition is made up of more than 550 organizations as well as hundreds of thousands of individual creators.
The group lobbies lawmakers and leads the cha... |
| Jun 30, 2019 | Adopting a ratings system for social media like the ones used for film and TV won’t work | Gale Anne Hurd Contributor
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Gale Anne Hurd is a producer of films and television shows, including the "Terminator" trilogy, "Aliens", "Armageddon", and "The Walking Dead”.
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| Jun 20, 2019 | Can't Have Copyright Enforcement Without Destroying Privacy Protections | Last week, Tim Geigner wrote about the Spanish soccer league, La Liga, getting hit with a GDPR fine because its mobile software just happened to sneakily include a surreptitious surveillance feature, turning on users' microphones to try to ... |
| Jun 20, 2019 | Can't Have Copyright Enforcement Without Destroying Privacy Protections | Last week, Tim Geigner wrote about the Spanish soccer league, La Liga, getting hit with a GDPR fine because its mobile software just happened to sneakily include a surreptitious surveillance feature, turning on users’ microphones to try to ... |
| Feb 12, 2019 | Project Brand Integrity Aims to Purge Ads From Pirate Sites | With the majority of public-facing pirate sites generating money from advertising, the past several years have seen the launch of numerous initiatives to drain them of their revenue.
This so-called “follow-the-money” approach has proven pop... |
| Nov 5, 2018 | Man From Earth Director Slams Pirates, Promotional Love Affair Over | With a backdrop of Hollywood waging war on pirates and pirate sites, 2007 delivered a ray of light for BitTorrent users and filmmakers alike.
After being produced on a tiny budget, an almost unknown independent sci-fi film called “The Man F... |
| Sep 2, 2018 | CreativeFuture Launches Withering Attack on Google Over Copyright | Before getting hired by Google back in 2010, lawyer Fred von Lohmann was a senior attorney at the EFF dealing with intellectual property matters.
In March 2018, after serving as Google’s legal director for copyright issues, von Lohmann left... |
| Apr 20, 2018 | Facebook Privacy Fiasco Sees Congress Urged on Anti-Piracy Action | It has been a tumultuous few weeks for Facebook, and some would say quite rightly so. The company is a notorious harvester of personal information but last month’s Cambridge Analytica scandal really brought things to a head.
With Facebook c... |
| Sep 7, 2016 | Anti-Piracy Groups Petition Clinton & Trump for Tough Copyright Laws | As the presidential election moves towards the home straight, millions of individuals and businesses in the United States are considering how the outcome might affect them.
Unsurprisingly, powerful groups in the entertainment industry are a... |
| Feb 2, 2016 | How Lobbyists Turned Big US Education Reform Bill Into The 'No Copyright Propaganda Left Behind' Act | You may have heard that, in early December, amid great fanfare, President Obama replaced the terrible No Child Left Behind law and replaced it with the “Every Student Succeeds Act” which, among other things, gave more power to the states wh... |
| Jan 28, 2016 | “Piracy Harms” Are Now Part of U.S. Education Law | With bipartisan support, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) became law late last year, outlining what U.S. public education policy looks like in the years to come.
One of the key changes to its predecessor is a stronger focus on technolo... |
| Aug 7, 2015 | EFF Told to “Shut the Hell Up” About SOPA | After a massive wave of opposition more than three years ago, the Stop Online Piracy Act died and dozens of technology-focused companies and websites breathed a sigh of relief. But despite its demise the memory of SOPA has lived on, particu... |
| Dec 14, 2014 | Morgan Freeman: Movie Pirates Have Tiny, Useless Penises | You wouldn’t steal a car. You wouldn’t steal a handbag. You wouldn’t steal a television. You wouldn’t steal a movie.
Today there can be few of us unaware of the origins of those lines since for nearly ten years the anti-piracy PSA in questi... |
| Aug 8, 2014 | Hollywood Funded Group Demands BitTorrent Inc. 'Take Responsibility' For Piracy | You would think that a Hollywood astroturfing group, funded by all of the major Hollywood studios, would know better than to issue a blatant attack on another company for “failing to condemn” how some people viewed their products. After all... |
| U.S. Lawmakers Work on Unified Site-Blocking Bill to Counter Online Piracy | The Supreme Court’s decision to reverse the billion-dollar piracy liability verdict against Cox Communications is a major win for Internet service providers.
It confirms that they can’t be held liable for pirating activities of subscribers ... |
| U.S. Senators Introduce SMART Copyright Act to Combat Piracy | For years, U.S. lawmakers have considered options to update the DMCA so it can more effectively deal with today’s online copyright issues.
Senator Thom Tillis was one of the most recent to take up the baton. A little over a year ago, he rel... |
| CreativeFuture Celebrates Kim Dotcom’s Extradition Via Interactive Quiz | More than twelve years after an unprecedented law enforcement operation shut down file-sharing giant Megaupload, founder Kim Dotcom remains in New Zealand.
The battle to avoid extradition to the United States has been fought tooth and nail,... |
