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March 17, 2026

Re:Create Raises Concerns with H.R. 6028
March 5, 2026

Brandon Butler

A note from Re:Create: Make Every Week Fair Use Week

Like so many good holidays, one of the main goals of Fair Use Week is to draw your attention to something important that you might have lost track of in the rush of everyday life. Fair Use Week reminds us that the stakeholders in copyright policy are much broader than just copyright holders, and that…
February 23, 2026

Fair Use Week 2026 – Resources

Every year in February, Fair Use Week is celebrated across the country by creators, educators, librarians, researchers, technologists, and advocates for free expression. The week highlights the importance of fair use in copyright law and how it safeguards everyday activities such as teaching, research, commentary, and remixing, while fostering creativity, innovation, and the free exchange…
February 18, 2026

Brandon Butler

A note from Re:Create: From Copyright Preemption to Preempting Copyright

Last week we sent a letter to the Oregon legislature addressing its recently re-introduced link tax bill, which would (like all ‘link tax’ bills) create a new right for news publishers to sue digital companies that index and link to news sources without prior permission. Our letter warned that it was unwise to pass the…
February 13, 2026

Re:Create Letter Raising Concerns On OR SB 1580
February 12, 2026

Getting to Know the Fair Use Right, Its Applications, and Benefits!

Fair use is essential to America’s balanced copyright system and helps the U.S. maintain its lead in innovation on the global stage. Copyright maximalists and other critics often mischaracterize fair use, downplaying its benefits and ignoring its role in everyday life. To break it down, Re:Create’s fair use one-pager explains what fair use is, its…
February 5, 2026

Shiva Stella

Public Knowledge Applauds Bill Protecting the Public’s Right to Repair
February 3, 2026

Brandon Butler

A note from Re:Create: Google Books Shows that “Memorization” and Outputting Training Data Are Not Fatal to Fair Use

Allow me to blow your mind: A database of unlicensed copies of copyrighted works, even millions of works, used to power a tool that outputs protected material from those works can still be fair use. Indeed, those were exactly the facts in the most important fair use case for AI training: the Google Books case. …