Washington, D.C. – Today, as directed by the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act of 2020, the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) released a report on the Copyright Claims Board (CCB), three years after its initial assessment. In response, Re:Create Executive Director Brandon Butler released the following statement criticizing the report:
“The CASE Act, which created the Copyright Claims Board (CCB), was passed based on bold claims about its benefits for independent creators,” said Re:Create Executive Director Brandon Butler. “The Copyright Office’s detailed report on the CCB elides the fact that those claims were fundamentally false. Operating the CCB has cost American taxpayers $5.4 million over its first two years, and yet the vast majority of CCB claims were dismissed and plaintiffs won barely $75,000 in total awards. Congress was sold a lemon, and they should remember that the next time they get a pitch for one-sided copyright ‘reforms’ that ignore the balance of interests in the copyright system.”
Re:Create submitted comments in opposition to the CCB study in May 2025.
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About Re:Create: Re:Create is a coalition comprised of a broad membership of think tanks, advocacy organizations, libraries, technology companies – large and small – that serves as the leading coalition united in the fight for a balanced copyright system that is pro-innovation, pro-creator, and pro-consumer. Not every member of the Re:Create Coalition necessarily agrees on every issue, but the views we express represent the consensus among the bulk of our membership.