The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is at it again – doing the bidding of their largest benefactors to the detriment of millions of American creatives who are looking toward their representatives in Congress to help them survive the scourge of digital piracy. We all know that the EFF starts tweaking... Read more
By Justin Sanders
Facebook and Google have given us enough evidence for the urgency of #PlatformAccountability to last a lifetime… and that’s just in the seven weeks since the last time we published this series. Their burning dumpster fire burns hotter than ever, and the more they claim to be fighting it, the higher its... Read more
By Justin Sanders
Breaking their own exorbitant lobbyist-spending records has become a regular occurrence for Google – but that’s just one tool in their toolkit of political influence. Google also makes friends and influences people by soliciting scholarship at leading university campuses throughout the country. While dressed up as “research grants,” Google enriches a... Read more
By Justin Sanders
We’re almost a third of the way through 2019, and Facebook and Google’s endlessly burning dumpster fire is still burning hotter than ever. Their most recent jaw-dropping Gaffe? While claiming to have their content moderation problems under control, both companies were left scrambling to remove millions of videos of a New... Read more
Dearest International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), You know better than anyone that it’s no accident so many of the world’s artists come to live and work in America. Coupled with our strong commitment to freedom of expression (guaranteed by the First Amendment), America’s strong copyright system ensures that creatives of... Read more
By Ruth Vitale
Say what you will about YouTube, but one thing is certain – they’ve got chutzpah. It’s not just on another level. Heck, it’s in another dimension. Consider the extent to which the Google-owned video behemoth has gone to spread fake news and harmful misinformation. And how it has enabled and rewarded... Read more
By Ruth Vitale
As Europe’s Article 13 – and YouTube’s increasingly dirty efforts to stop it – has grabbed the lion’s share of copyright-related headlines in recent weeks, our government has quietly been stepping up its game against intellectual property theft here in the States. In the ongoing trade battle with China, our... Read more
By Ruth Vitale
Perhaps you have been a follower of CreativeFuture since we started, or maybe you’ve just caught up with us recently. Whenever it was, you probably know that our goal is to ensure that people who work in the creative industries are protected by a strong copyright system. Piracy is our enemy, and we... Read more
In 2015, CreativeFuture began our Follow the Money campaign – an effort to reduce the appearances of legitimate advertisements on pirate websites. See, pirate websites depend heavily on advertising to make money – and they rely on widely-known brands appearing on their website to give their own criminal operations some... Read more
By Justin Sanders
With all the controversy swirling around Big Tech in 2018, you may have missed yet another, slightly less reported-on scandal that occurred near the end of the year in New Zealand. It involved the murder of British backpacker Grace Millane, and the temporary name suppression ordered by the local authorities... Read more