Last week saw the release of the first appellate court opinion on fair use in AI training, and it was a dud. In Thomson Reuters GMBH v. Ross, Third Circuit Judge Montgomery-Reeves makes a series of er...

There has been a raft of site-blocking bills in the latest Congress, and the latest is called the “Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property” aka the

Politicians weaponize DMCA copyright takedowns to scrub critical news from search results and silence accountability reporting.

Congress is taking another run at site-blocking, a deeply flawed concept that would undermine basic internet infrastructure. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has introduced the American Copyright Protection

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has affirmed the District of Delaware’s grant of partial summary judgment to Canadian technology company Thomson Reuters.

In case you missed it, Re:Create’s opposition statement to the American Copyright Protection Act (ACPA) of 2026 (H.R. 10364) is driving the national tech policy conversation. Executive Director Brando...

Washington, D.C. – Following the introduction of the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act by Reps. Laurel Lee (R-FL) and Valerie Foushee (D-NC) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Re:Create Executive Director Brandon Bu...

Fair use is a critical right that permits the use of copyrighted material without permission from the copyright owner for a wide variety of socially beneficial purposes.

Washington — The Computer & Communications Industry Association today filed an amicus brief urging the Northern District of California court to confirm

Washington, D.C. – Following introduction of The DEFEND IP Act of 2026, Re:Create Executive Director, Brandon Butler, issued the following statement highlighting concerns about the bill. “The DEFEND I...

Last year, CCIA and the Chamber of Progress submitted a joint brief to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Doe v. Github, a case centered on training

Fair use is a critical right that permits the use of copyrighted material without permission from the copyright owner for a wide variety of socially beneficial purposes.

Politicians weaponize DMCA copyright takedowns to scrub critical news from search results and silence accountability reporting.

The battle boils down to a difference in opinion about what constitutes fair use.

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Washington, D.C. – Following U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa’s introduction of The American Copyright Protection Act of 2026, Re:Create Executive Director, Brandon Butler, issued the following statement highli...

Representative Darrell Issa introduced the American Copyright Protection Act on Monday, a bill aimed at creating an expedited judicial mechanism for copyright owners to obtain orders blocking access t...

Bill would help rightsholders obtain court orders to block foreign piracy sites.

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Washington, D.C. – Following U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa’s introduction of The American Copyright Protection Act of 2026, Re:Create Executive Director, Brandon Butler, issued the following statement highli...

Washington, D.C. – Ahead of H.R. 6028, the Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act, heading to the House floor for a vote this week, Re:Create expressed its strong opposition to the legislation ...

Washington – The Computer & Communications Industry Association, joined by co-amici NetChoice and A.I. Progress, has filed an amicus brief in In re Mosaic

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I hope you had a great Labor Day Weekend. I spent mine doing one of my favorite things: reading legal briefs about fair use. Specifically, I read the parties’ briefs in the gigantic consolidated OpenA...

Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.

Washington, D.C. – Following the DOJ’s filing in NYT v. OpenAI in support of fair use, Re:Create Executive Director Brandon Butler issued the following statement applauding the move.  “The Department ...

A federal court in Massachusetts has ruled that copyright holders can issue online takedown notices based on a subjective belief of copyright infringement, even when that belief is unreasonable and

A federal court in Massachusetts has ruled that copyright holders can issue online takedown notices based on a subjective belief of copyright infringement, even when that belief is unreasonable and

Training a model on copyrighted work is the same transformative use exception that protects The New York Times' journalism.