Article 13 Will Hurt Creators, Consumers & Startups. On March 26, the European Parliament gave final approval of the controversial Copyright Directive, which includes provisions to mandate upload filtering on sites like Wikipedia, Reddit, YouTube and more. The Verge and other outlets noted the approval came despite widespread European opposition to Article 13, including 100,000 protesters and a petition with…

U.S. Copyright Office Holding Section 512 Roundtable On April 8. The U.S. Copyright Office will hold a public roundtable for its study on section 512 on April 8 at the Library of Congress’s Madison Building in Washington, D.C. Stay tuned for more from the Re:Create Coalition as stakeholders prepare to participate in strong support for the current DMCA safe harbor…

Thousands Rally In “We Are Not Bots Rally” Protesting EU Copyright Directive. An estimated 5,000 braved the cold in Berlin on March 2 to protest the upload filter provisions in Article 13 of the EU Copyright Directive. According to a report by GlobalVoices, it was the third in a series of protests leading up to a day of European Union-wide…

14 Amicus Briefs Filed In Support Of Google Petition In Oracle Case. Jonathan Band posted a Project Disco roundup of the 14 amicus briefs filed in support of Google’s petition to the Supreme Court in the ongoing copyright dispute with Oracle. The blog captured the leading arguments from some of the nation’s leading IP scholars, computer scientists and software firms….

Re:Create Sends Letter To Congress. The Re:Create Coalition sent an open letter this week to Members of Congress urging them to support and promote balanced copyright policy. The letter laid out a set of key values to help guide the development of a balanced copyright legal framework that benefits creators, users and innovators. Underlying the principles is the Coalition’s belief…

Supporting a Pro-Innovation, Pro-Creator, Pro-Consumer Copyright Agenda Congratulations on your election to the 116th Congress. We look forward to working with you in the upcoming months as you tackle many of the issues we face as a nation. We represent a cross-section of creators, advocates, thinkers and consumers. Re:Create was founded in 2015 to educate policymakers on the positive impact…

Last week, we shared with you our second annual report on the economic value of the New Creative Economy, which found that 16.9 million independent, American creators earned a baseline of $6.8 billion from posting their music, videos, art, crafts and other works online in 2017. The updated figures highlighted a 16.6% increase in the number of new creators and…

Report Finds New Creative Economy Is Thriving. The Re:Create Coalition released its second annual report on the economic value of the new creative economy this week, which found that 16.9 million independent, American creators earned a baseline of $6.8 billion from posting their music, videos, art, crafts and other works online in 2017. The updated figures highlighted a 16.6% increase…

New Creative Voices Are Making It In Hollywood Thanks To Wattpad. Hollywood continues to take notice of up-and-coming writers on online story-sharing platform Wattpad, reported The Los Angeles Times in a profile of the site and writers who’ve leveraged their online popularity into major deals with NBCUniversal, Hulu, Netflix and more. In fact, Netflix’s most re-watched film of 2018 was “The…

Google Asks Supreme Court To Grant Cert In Oracle Copyright Case. Reuters reported that Google asked the Supreme Court to review a copyright court case over the use of software interfaces (known as application programming interfaces, or APIs), which enable computer programs to interact. Oracle sued Google for using its Java programming language to build the Android platform, claiming copyright…