Re:Create Coalition

Don’t miss insights from @bb.usefairuse.com in today’s Re:Create recap. Today’s edition includes:
📚The Google Book’s case AI application
❌Opposition to VACRA
📅The countdown to fair use week

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Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to

Buying a track or ebook that you can’t pass on, share, or transfer isn’t ownership; it’s a rental. We need to restore digital first sale. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Copyright Week 2026 Day 1: Copyright Enforcement as a Tool of CensorshipCopyright shouldn't be a weapon for elites to silence speech and criticism they find inconvenient. We deserve a copyright system which preserves our...

Did you miss Copyright Week this year? It's okay. There's a lot going on--and our friends @eff.org have the roundup. (Click through for the adorable animation!)

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Copyright Should Not Enable Monopoly There’s a crisis of creativity in mainstream American culture. We have fewer and fewer studios and record labels and fewer and fewer platforms online that serve independent artists and creators.

When the monopoly right granted by copyright is compounded by the speed and scale of media company mergers, we end up with a crisis in creativity. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

As needlepoint becomes increasingly popular, younger generations are adapting the practice to reflect their interests - whether that’s a pillow with Taylor Swift lyrics or a parody of the latest marketing slogan - fair use makes that creativity possible.

#FairUseFriday Fair use plays an essential role in preserving art forms from one generation to the next.

Someone at the @washingtonpost dialed back the inflammatory "destroy millions of books" headline on @WillOremus' piece. Appreciate that. Is it the same for everyone? I've seen three different headlines on this story since it was first published.

Public domain contest challenges filmmakers to remix Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and more Nearly 280 filmmakers entered the Internet Archive's annual contest celebrating creative freedom without copyright restrictions.

💡@npr.org shares how the public domain allows people to create new and inspiring works and highlights the Internet Archive's 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest. This year's contest winner shared how she is licensing her work with @creativecommons.bsky.social to allow others to build upon it:

Since “theft” and “destruction” are the lingua franca of AI-copyright discourse, let me put fair use into those terms so folks can understand. Not everything in a copyrighted work is private property. Copyrighted works contain facts, ideas, and raw materials

Statutory Damages: The Fuel of Copyright-based Censorship Imagine every post online came with a bounty of up to $150,000 paid to anyone who finds it violates opaque government rules—all out of the pocket of the platform. It's not a fantasy, it’s close to how...

Last week during Copyright Week, @eff.org published a blog post arguing that massive statutory copyright damages encourage the over-removal of lawful content, enabling abuse and censorship while harming creativity. Read more: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Re:Create Raises Concerns with Sen. Blackburn's VACRA - Re:Create

The letter highlights that changes proposed in the bill would be costly, disrupt the efficient operations of the Copyright Office and the Library of Congress, and provides little evidence of how it would benefit to the public, copyright holders or visual artists.

Re:Create Raises Concerns with Sen. Blackburn's VACRA - Re:Create

📨 Today, Re:Create sent a letter to U.S. Sen. Blackburn's office sharing concerns about the recently introduced, Visual Artists Copyright Reform Act of 2025 (VACRA).

Another #PublicDomainFriday, another gem! This piece, from "The Blood Collages of John Bingley Garland (ca. 1850–60)" is available from the Harry Ransom Center!

Share your own favorite work at the end of each week with us using #PublicDomainFriday!

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Read our statement from the Senate introduction in July to learn more about how this would effect creativity, innovation & balanced copyrights: recreatecoalition.org/press_releas...

Re:Create Statement on the Transparency and Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence Networks (TRAIN) Act - Re:Create Washington, D.C. – In response to Senators Peter Welch (D-VT), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Adam Schiff (D-CA), and Josh Hawley (R-MO)’s reintroduction of the Transparency and Responsibility for Artificia...

With the TRAIN Acts introduction in the House, Re:Create remains opposed to the bill as it puts fair use, free expression and creative rights on the wrong tracks.

Copyright Week 2026 Day 1: Copyright Enforcement as a Tool of CensorshipCopyright shouldn't be a weapon for elites to silence speech and criticism they find inconvenient. We deserve a copyright system which preserves our...

& check out @eff.org 's Copyright Week page for a roundup of this week's topics: www.eff.org/copyrightwee...

Re:Create’s Take on Day 4 of EFF’s Copyright Week: Fair Use & Free Expression - Re:Create This week Re:Create member EFF is leading its annual “Copyright Week,” a week that emphasizes how America relies on a balanced copyright system to promote creativity and innovation, and highlights som...

Copyright infringers face massive statutory damages, while those who suppress fair use typically face no consequences at all. Read more: recreatecoalition.org/recreates-ta...

Today’s #CopyrightWeek theme is “Fair Use and Free Expression.” A major imbalance in the copyright system is its failure to protect fair use as robustly as it protects exclusive rights.

A note from Re:Create: Innovation Isn’t Stealing - Re:Create Anti-AI crusader (and talented actor, TBH) Joseph Gordon-Levitt launched a splashy campaign this week with some big name celebrity endorsements for a petition proclaiming “Stealing isn’t innovation.” ...

In today's Re:Create Recap, Executive Director Brandon Butler points out the irony of the #StealingIsntInnovation campaign and how balanced copyright is vital to creativity and innovation. Don't miss it: recreatecoalition.org/a-note-from-...

Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all...

Physical media built secondhand markets, swaps, and libraries thanks to the First Sale principle. Without it, digital media is hollowing out those spaces and leaving us with cheap rentals.

Fair Use in the U.S. Economy - 2025 Edition - CCIA Research Center

💼Fair use industries grew by 2.5 million workers since 2017
💰Value added by fair use industries was 18% of the U.S. economy
📈Exports of goods and services related to fair use industries increased by 33%

Read the full report: ccianet.org/research/rep...

Fair Use in the U.S. Economy - 2025 Edition - CCIA Research Center

#FairUseFriday “It’s the economy, stupid!” And a recent @CCIA study found that fair use is a major boost to the U.S. economy. Topline takeaways ⬇️

Re:Create’s Take on Day 3 of EFF’s Copyright Week: Device & Digital Ownership - Re:Create This week Re:Create member EFF is leading its annual “Copyright Week,” a week that emphasizes how America relies on a balanced copyright system to promote creativity and innovation, and highlights som...

Today’s #CopyrightWeek theme is “Device and Digital Ownership.” One of the greatest threats to digital ownership is the legal protection for digital locks found in Section 1201 of the Copyright Act. Read more about how Big Content turned moral panic over copyright into a massive rights grab:

Fact: AI learns patterns without “taking” the original work. Using copyrighted material for transformative purposes is protected by Fair Use to drive innovation and inspire creativity. Learn more: recreatecoalition.org/infographic/...

Copyright Should Not Enable Monopoly There’s a crisis of creativity in mainstream American culture. We have fewer and fewer studios and record labels and fewer and fewer platforms online that serve independent artists and creators.

The more media mergers we see, the more copyright is doing the opposite of its intended purpose: instead of encouraging creativity, it’s discouraging it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Statutory Damages: The Fuel of Copyright-based Censorship Imagine every post online came with a bounty of up to $150,000 paid to anyone who finds it violates opaque government rules—all out of the pocket of the platform. It's not a fantasy, it’s close to

U.S. copyright’s flawed statutory damages regime has devastating consequences for legitimate online speech. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Re:Create’s Take on Day 1 of EFF’s Copyright Week: Copyright Enforcement As a Tool of Censorship - Re:Create This week Re:Create member EFF is leading its annual “Copyright Week,” a week that emphasizes how America relies on a balanced copyright system to promote creativity and innovation, and highlights som...

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Day 1 of #CopyrightWeek is about copyright enforcement as a tool of censorship. On the web the ultimate censorship power is unilaterally blocking an entire website, so today we highlight how siteblocking looks a lot like another web censorship scam, the SAD Scheme. Read more:

Throughout the week EFF, Re:Create, our members, and our balanced copyright allies will highlight balanced copyright’s role in supporting free speech, competition, ownership, and free expression.

This week Re:Create member @eff.org is leading its annual “Copyright Week,” a week that emphasizes how America relies on a balanced copyright system to promote creativity and innovation, and highlights some of the ways unbalanced copyright hurts consumers, creators, and innovators alike.