Our Issues

Current U.S. copyright principles, including fair use, provide appropriately clear and flexible guardrails for AI innovation, and developers’ use of copyrighted works to train AI tools will typically be fair use and should not require licensing.

Fair use is a critical right that permits the use of copyrighted material without permission from the copyright owner for a wide variety of socially beneficial purposes.

The public domain is the treasure trove of material that is not subject to any copyright and is therefore free for all to copy, share, and reuse for any lawful purpose.

Site-blocking is a legal mechanism to force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to prevent users from accessing a foreign website or online service based on an alleged copyright violation.

Link Taxes are proposals to require technology platforms to pay publishers when they include links or snippets of headlines or article previews from news websites.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Safe Harbors provide a framework that protects service providers from liability for their users’ actions, as long as they have responsible policies in place for responding to copyright holders’ notices of alleged infringement.

The DMCA Anti-Circumvention Rules (Section 1201) makes it illegal to circumvent technological protection measures (TPMs) on software and other copyrighted works.

Re:Create opposes placing copyright restrictions on technical standards for construction, consumer safety guidelines, and other privately developed rules that have the force of law and can limit first responders’ access and put consumers and the public at risk.

Re:Create supports pro-consumer policies that prevent copyright and contract law from being misused to roll back owners’ rights and block perfectly legal repairs, because that abuse harms consumers, researchers, competition, and innovation.