By Ruth Vitale
Senator Thom Tillis, of North Carolina, is Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. His office began 2020 by announcing a year-long series of hearings to assess the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 22 years after its passage. RUTH VITALE: Senator Tillis, thank you so much for agreeing to... Read more
Consider the word “use.” It can mean both to “take, hold, or deploy (something) as a means of accomplishing a purpose” or to “exploit (a person or situation) for one’s own advantage.” There’s a latent hostility to the word “use” (use drugs, use other people, use up your remaining karma),... Read more
By Ruth Vitale
Here’s a direct plea to Google and Facebook. For too long, you’ve dragged your feet on harmful online conduct. It’s obvious that you don’t feel there are sufficient incentives (financial, legal, or PR) to make the systemic changes necessary to stop the spew of hate speech, fake news, foreign election meddling,... Read more
By Ruth Vitale
“To take from an artist is to take greatness from this world.” So says Matthew Cuban in the following video from a group of Los Angeles street poets about copyright and its importance to creativity and innovation in America. We are thrilled to partner with Macmillan Learning and a group... Read more
Happy holidays from CreativeFuture HQ, where our growing family of copyright defenders had another exciting year! From legislation victories such as the CASE Act to lashing out at anti-copyright crusaders in all their forms, 2019 was packed with memorable moments. But of all the battles we waged, achievements we enjoyed, and accolades or insults we... Read more
Another year, another series of blogs rounding up reasons for #PlatformAccountability from across the spectrum of political, cultural, and sociological discourse. Throughout the past year, we’ve regularly published posts chock full of quotes and comments describing the grave harms and indignities perpetrated by massive internet platform companies such as Facebook and Google. There has been no shortage of... Read more
We do a lot of railing against the mammoth internet platforms (Google and Facebook) and other internet companies that are harming not just the creative industries but society at large. But, occasionally, it’s important to also take time to reflect on the good things that happen in between the lies,... Read more
One thing became clear in the wake of our recent article on Pam Samuelson – she has a number of fans on “academic Twitter.” Several academics commented on our piece – some apparently without reading it – and challenged our facts and conclusions. We’ll stand by our facts. Her supporters... Read more
Here we are … again. Mark Zuckerberg was chewed out (again) on Capitol Hill. Google enraged their employees (again) by trying to spy on them and for siding with China (again). Cloudflare was outed (again) for refusing to crack down on criminal behavior on their network. In other words, here is the latest installment in our ongoing coverage... Read more
Just when you thought the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) couldn’t possibly hate creatives more than they already do, they’ve now appointed one of the greatest anti-copyright champs of them all: UC Berkeley professor Pamela Samuelson. Over many decades in academia, Samuelson has worked diligently to weaken copyright protections so that massive internet companies... Read more