Re:Create Coalition

ED @bb.usefairuse.com se.com & OSI Senior US Policy Manager @ksteen-james.bsky.social highlight how OSI's contributions to the coalition will help protect an open internet that encourages creativity, preserves access to knowledge, and remains open, equitable & driven by the public interest.

📣As seen in @politico.com Morning Tech today, we welcomed @opensource.org as our newest coalition member! www.recreatecoalition.org/press_releas...

EFF to Court: The DMCA Didn't Create a New Right of Attribution, You Shouldn't Either Amid a wave of lawsuits targeting how AI companies use copyrighted works to train large language models that generate new works, a peculiar provision of copyright law is suddenly in the spotlight: Sec...

As lawsuits over AI training increase, @eff.org highlights how a new provision of Section 1202 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), currently being debated by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, would have far reaching implications on AI technologies and beyond www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Deadline breaks down the best of the best from San Diego’s comic con: t.co/jdQegPUWiy

Comic-Con 2025 Photos: Best Of Panels, Activations, Cosplay & Convention Floor Check back for the latest photos from the mecca of comic conventions

#FairUseFriday Did you enjoy last week’s San Diego comic con? Dressing up in cosplay, great art and storytelling, even media coverage of the event, all include images of copyrighted content proudly mixed and mashed together, all brought to you by fair use!

The Block BEARD Act, is just another attempt by Big Content to control the internet through site-blocking. Executive Director
@bb.usefairuse.com shares more in a statement ⬇️
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A note from Re:Create: Big Content Gets In on the Nineties Revival - Re:Create As a child of the 1990s, everywhere I look I am confronted with reboots of the culture of my youth. Some of them are fun: my kids are wearing ridiculously baggy pants, flannel shirts, and Doc Martens ...

In last week's Re:Create Recap, executive director @bc_butler criticizes Big Content for reviving restrictive internet policies through legislation and court cases like Cox v. Sony, which would threaten user rights, innovation and the open internet:
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-Enable harassment of technology developers
- & negatively impact smaller AI developers

@bb.usefairuse.com highlights how the bill would:
-Ignore the fair use right that has effectively supported the technology and creative industries
-Provide copyright holders with a license to harass AI developers, with no consequences for bogus or abusive requests

🚨Re:Create released a statement in response to the recently re-introduced TRAIN Act: www.recreatecoalition.org/press_releas...

ICYMI: Re:Create Responds to the Release of the White House’s AI Action Plan - Re:Create Following the release of the White House’s “America’s AI Action Plan,” organizations across various industry sectors commented on the plan’s impact on their efforts. Although the plan did not directly...

#ICYMI When it came to copyright in last week's AI Action Plan, our members' comments had a common theme: let fair use be. Find a roundup of Re:Create member comments and a breakdown of what this plan means for fair use & AI here: www.recreatecoalition.org/icymi-recrea...

Two Court Cases, Two Headlines, One Outcome - Fair Use Wins - Re:Create Following significant rulings in Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc. last month, this infographic breaks down how both judges ruled correctly on AI training, applying the traditional...

#FairUseFriday Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta made recent headlines on what these decisions mean for AI training and at the heart of the issue: fair use. Our new infographic breaks down how each judge ruled on the four factors, ultimately signaling a win for fair use.

Internet Archive is now an official US government document library The US Senate has granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it officially part of an 1,100-library government network.

As more and more government information disappears, we're glad to see @archive.org (which has done so much already to preserve our online history) become an official Federal Depository Library!

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Fair Use Gives America the Edge - Re:Create In March, Americans of all backgrounds submitted their thoughts and ideas to the White House’s AI Action plan, including recommendations from large tech companies, libraries, Hollywood actors, news or...

In response to the White House AI Action Plan, @bb.usefairuse.com breaks down the plan's positive impact on fair use, creativity & innovation ➡️ www.recreatecoalition.org/fair-use-giv...

Yesterday @bb.usefairuse.com joined @publicknowledge.bsky.social for its Congressional briefing titled "The Current State of Play for AI and Copyright." We thank PK for hosting a great discussion on current copyright & AI court cases, pending policies & its impact on creators and consumers!

Libraries, Journalists, And Public Interest Groups Oppose Private Control Of Law On July 8, an expanded coalition of library associations, civil society organizations, journalist groups, and other advocates for information access sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee e…

Check out this excellent new piece on the dangerous PRO CODES bill, published in @techdirt and co-authored by the wonderful Katherine Klosek of @arlpolicy and @upcodes founder Garrett Reynolds.
www.techdirt.com/2025/07/23/...

AI and Copyright: What Authors and Libraries Need to Know about the Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta Cases — Association of Research Libraries Join ARL and Authors Alliance for an essential discussion on how recent landmark court decisions are shaping the landscape of AI and copyright law. This webinar is open to the...

Don't miss @arl.org's panel discussion next week about how Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta are shaping the landscape of AI and copyright law.

Register to learn more from leading copyright experts @jonathanband.bsky.social @authorsalliance.bsky.social

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Today’s ReCreate Recap newsletter is packed with the latest updates on site-blocking legislation, AI and copyright court cases and bills, explanations of PRO CODES opposition, and more. Check it out ➡️ mailchi.mp/recreatecoal...

Read our statement below. I still remember when Hawley threatened to shrink Disney's copyrights because he thought they were too "woke." Now he'd bulldoze fair use and give Disney and the rest of Big Content a veto over new creativity. Times change, I guess? 🤷‍♂️ www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-intro...

Re:Create opposes this legislation and remains committed to preserving a copyright system that is balanced, protecting innovators, creators, and consumers.

- Hinder startups and small businesses from driving innovation forward in AI and other fields
- Undermine the U.S.’s current copyright framework which is well-equipped to govern new technology without added federal red tape

- Ignore the Constitutional purpose of copyright, “to promote the progress of science” and instead encourage copyright to serve as a barrier, not a catalyst, to learning and discovery

- Give Big Content unprecedented control over culture, further fueling the monopoly control that rightsholders have on the building blocks of creativity and innovation

Re:Create Coalition on X: "@HawleyMO and @SenBlumenthal's recently introduced AI Accountability and Personal Data Protection Act will not only set back American AI leadership, but set back America’s leadership in creativity, innovation, research and business. This bill would… - Give Big Content" / X @HawleyMO and @SenBlumenthal's recently introduced AI Accountability and Personal Data Protection Act will not only set back American AI leadership, but set back America’s leadership in creativity, innovation, research and business. This bill would… - Give Big Content

🧵 Sen. Hawley and @blumenthal.senate.gov recently introduced AI Accountability and Personal Data Protection Act will not only set back American AI leadership, but set back America’s leadership in creativity, innovation, research and business. This bill would…

❌ No one owns the law and the codes and standards that govern consumer safety should not be gatekept by copyright. Along with member organizations, Re:Create signed on to a letter outlining our concerns with the PRO CODES Act. Read more: cdt.org/wp-content/u...

Courts Agree: AI Training Ruled As Fair Use in Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta Two recent landmark trials on AI found that AI training on copyrighted works is fair use — but the details aren't so cut and dry.

#FairUseFriday Two recent court decisions ruled that AI training is fair use: prioritizing the right to learn, share knowledge and create transformable works. @publicknowledge.bsky.social breaks down these cases and the importance of fair use and innovation. publicknowledge.org/courts-agree...

During a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing that criticized tech companies’ #AI training, @edleeprof encouraged “caution by courts, Congress and the states” and said it is important to weigh #AI innovation as President Trump set a goal for the US to lead in #AI. 1/2

Gotta add this to the @recreatecoalition.bsky.social "Fair use on the hill" infographic! www.recreatecoalition.org/infographic/...

In response to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing today on AI and copyright, Executive Director
@bb.usefairuse.com issued the following statement.

Read the full statement 👉 www.recreatecoalition.org/press_releas...

#FairUseFridays! - Re:Create It’s #FairUseFriday, where each week we celebrate how fair use is essential to everyday life and culture. From writing an essay to interacting with Instagram Reels to using a search engine, fair use e...

Fair use is essential to our everyday lives. Whether you are an internet user, student, content creator, journalist or hill staffer fair use grants us the ability to complete many of our everyday tasks. Take a closer look at our resources on this key principle: www.recreatecoalition.org/14418-2/