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| Sep 10, 2024 | NO FAKES – A Dream For Lawyers, A Nightmare For Everyone Else | Performers and ordinary humans are increasingly concerned that they may be replaced or defamed by AI-generated imitations. We’re seeing a host of bills designed to address that concern – but every one just generates new problems. Case in po... |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Success Kid Says Transformative Use Lives | The recent publication of Griner v. King seems to have just about everything: an iconic meme (Success Kid!), a troll-ish politician, charges of political censorship, and an application of the latest big Supreme Court opinion on fair use, Wa... |
| May 18, 2023 | U.S. Congress Doesn’t Plan to Overreact to Generative AI Copyright Challenges | This article consists of a collection of words that were once invented, most of them long before copyright or trademarks existed.
Words form the building blocks of today’s society; they help to foster creativity and communication, and repre... |
| 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... |
| Oct 19, 2021 | Hollywood Is Betting On Filtering Mandates, But Working Copyright Algorithms Simply Don't Exist | Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen may not have mentioned copyright in her Congressional testimony or television interviews, but her focus on artificial intelligence (“AI”) and content moderation have a lot of implications for online cop... |
| Mar 9, 2021 | ‘The Digital Copyright Act Will Chill Innovation and Harm The Internet’ | 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. Last December he released a disc... |
| Mar 1, 2021 | ‘US Government Should Protect the Public from Copyright Extremes’ | Changes in power often present opportunities, including in the US where a new President and Congress were recently sworn in.
Last week, we reported how a pro-copyright coalition took this opportunity to ask President Biden for help in their... |
| Dec 24, 2020 | You’ll Be Able To Download A Lot More Stuff For Free—Legally—Jan. 1 | LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 13: A first edition of F Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' at the London ... [+] International Antiquarian Book Fair in the Olympia exhibition centre on June 13, 2013 in London, England. The Antiquarian Bookseller... |
| Dec 23, 2020 | ‘DMCA 2.0’ Draft Hints at Filters With Notice-and-Staydown Scheme | It is a busy week for copyright proposals in the United States, one that will resound far into the year ahead.
A few hours after the ‘CASE Act’ and the ‘Protecting Lawful Streaming Act’ were approved as part of the spending bill, a discussi... |
| Dec 6, 2020 | DMCA Review Triggers Opposition Against Site Blocking and Staydown Requirements | When the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was introduced in 1998, file-sharing was a fringe activity, and online streaming a futuristic idea.
The developments over the past two decades have transformed the way people consume media, b... |
| Nov 23, 2020 | The former Andreessen Horowitz investor who coined the phrase 'passion economy' explains how it's easier than ever to turn your expertise into a business venture | Venture capitalist Li Jin coined the phrase "passion economy" to describe a growing segment of businesses whose offerings highlight the individuality of their creators. Courtesy of Li Jin This story is available exclusively to Ins... |
| Sep 4, 2020 | The Next Register Of Copyrights Must Realize That Copyright Serves The Public | Mike has written many times on this website about various shenanigans at the Copyright Office. An obscure government agency to many, the Copyright Office actually has a huge influence over copyright policy and law, from Congress to the cour... |
| Jul 7, 2020 | U.S. Copyright Office: Disconnecting Persistent Pirates is Not Always Preferred | The US Senate’s Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property is looking for ways through which it can better address online piracy.
Specifically, it’s working with various stakeholders to see if the DMCA can be improved to better suit to... |
| Oct 23, 2019 | U.S. House Passes Copyright “Small Claims” Bill with Overwhelming Majority | In May, new legislation was tabled in the U.S. House and Senate that introduces the creation of a “small claims” process for copyright disputes.
The CASE Act, short for “Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement,” proposes to establ... |
| Oct 21, 2019 | Congress Looks To Rush Through Unconstitutional Pro-Copyright Trolls Bill, Despite Promising To Explore Alternatives | We've written a bunch about the CASE Act, which Congress (misleadingly) has referred to as a sort of "small claims court" for copyright claims. Supporters say that this is needed because actually going to federal court, where copy... |
| Oct 21, 2019 | Congress Looks To Rush Through Unconstitutional Pro-Copyright Trolls Bill, Despite Promising To Explore Alternatives | We’ve written a bunch about the CASE Act, which Congress (misleadingly) has referred to as a sort of “small claims court” for copyright claims. Supporters say that this is needed because actually going to federal court, where copyright clai... |
| Sep 21, 2019 | House Judiciary Committee Doesn’t Want ‘DMCA-Style’ Safe Harbor in Trade Agreements | When President Clinton signed the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) into law in 1998, its goal was to ready copyright law for the digital age.
The law introduced safe harbors for Internet services (DMCA Section 512), meaning that they ... |
| Jul 27, 2019 | Tensions Rise as Copyright “Small Claims” Bill Moves Forward | In May, new legislation was tabled in the U.S. House and Senate that introduces the creation of a “small claims” process for copyright offenses.
The CASE Act, short for “Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement,” proposes to establ... |
| Feb 18, 2019 | Study says US Twitch streamers raked in roughly $87 million in 2017 | A new study estimates that revenue-earning American Twitch streamers grew to nearly 9,800 in 2017 (a 59 percent increase from 2016) and made an estimated $87.1 million (representing a 30 percent YOY increase).
Twitch is one of the fastest-g... |
| Feb 14, 2019 | Study Reinforces How Much The Internet Has Enabled Content Creators To Make Money | A year ago, we wrote about a wonderful study that showed how the internet and its various platforms were (contrary to the stories that the legacy entertainment industries keep spreading) enabling more content creators to make more money tha... |
| May 29, 2018 | New Organization Formed In South Africa To Promote The Rights Of Creators And Support Intelligent Copyright Reform | Over the years, Techdirt has written about some pretty bad stuff happening in South Africa on the copyright front. For example, there was the Business Software Alliance using made-up figures in an attempt to revise copyright law in its favo... |
| Feb 16, 2018 | Everyone Creates: New Empirical Data Shows Just How Much The Internet Has Enabled A New Creative Economy | Visit EveryoneCreates.org to read stories of creation empowered by the internet, and share your own! » |
| Aug 6, 2017 | ‘US Should Include Fair Use and Safe Harbors in NAFTA Negotiations’ | The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the United States, Canada, and Mexico was negotiated more than 25 years ago.
Over the past quarter century trade has changed drastically, especially online, so the United States is now... |
| May 24, 2017 | Senate Should Either Fix Or Get Off The Pot On Copyright Office Bill | The U.S. Senate is about to consider mostly pointless legislation that would make the nation’s register of copyrights—the individual who heads the U.S. Copyright Office, officially a part of the Library of Congress—a presidential appointmen... |
| 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... |
| Copyright Claims Board is “Ineffective and Costly,” Watchdog Groups Say | The US Copyright Claims Board launched in 2022. Through this Copyright Office-hosted venue, rightsholders can claim damages outside the federal court system.
The board, instituted through the CASE Act, aims to make it cheaper for creators t... |
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| New Bill Aims to Block Foreign Pirate Sites in the U.S. | For a long time, pirate site blocking was regarded as a topic most U.S. politicians would rather avoid.
This lingering remnant of the SOPA debacle drove copyright holders to focus on the introduction of blocking efforts in other countries i... |
