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How Fair Use Elevates Everyday Life

In honor of this year’s Fair Use Week, Re:Create Coalition is highlighting how fair use enhances creativity and is essential to everyday activities. From using quoted classic literature text in a book report, to creating memes based on a copyrighted picture, to reporters using previously aired news content in their news segment — fair use is essential to everyone. Re:Create…

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Re:Create Congratulates Subcommittee Leaders Senator Coons, Senator Tillis, Representative Issa and Representative Hank Johnson

Re:Create issued the following statement after leadership positions were announced for both the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, and the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. “Re:Create congratulates Sen. Coons and Sen. Tillis for their nominations as Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. Re:Create also congratulates Rep. Issa and…

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JCPA’s National Security Threat: A China-Sized Loophole

Late last year, a bipartisan array of public interest advocates, media organizations and tech experts urged Congressional leaders to exclude the deeply flawed Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Widespread antipathy to the JCPA has been long-standing, and its list of problems remains extensive. But when the bill was discussed in the context…

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