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December 12, 2025

Re:Create Letter to House Leadership on H.R. 6028
December 3, 2025

Brandon Butler

A note from Re:Create: The Maximalist Dream of the Nineties Is Alive in Chapter 12 of the Copyright Act

Hey, remember the 1990s? For copyright wonks, remember when the copyright maximalist lobby said rightsholders needed broad new powers to control digital copies of their works with “technical protection measures” (TPMs) and “copyright management information” (CMI) or else the “internet superhighway” would be a barren wasteland of nothing but “funny cat videos” (the horror!)? That pitch…
November 14, 2025

Brandon Butler

A note from Re:Create: Here They Go Again

The copyright cartels’ obsession with the American Law Institute’s forthcoming Restatement of the Law, Copyright, is honestly wild. ALI Restatements are reference works authored by scholars, endorsed by the august body of ALI members (judges, scholars, and leading practitioners), and designed to provide judges with useful guidance on the interpretation of complex bodies of caselaw. When a Restatement of Copyright was first…
November 5, 2025

Re:Create, CDT, EFF, and Allies Submit Comments to USTR Ahead of 2026 USMCA Review
October 29, 2025

Brandon Butler

A note from Re:Create: Reddit Sells Out

I spent this past weekend at a punk festival in Gainesville, Florida, reminiscing with some old friends who were playing a show there after a 20+ year hiatus. Inevitably, we all reflected on the ways that we and many of our friends had changed since we were idealistic kids. Though we had mostly wound up…
October 28, 2025

Statutory Damages & Why It Matters

Statutory Damages: In addition to actual damages, i.e. their provable losses caused by infringement plus the infringer’s provable additional profits from infringement, the Copyright Act allows rightsholders to seek so-called ‘statutory damages,’ which do not require proof of harm and ensure a minimum recovery of $700 per work infringed, but can reach as high as…
October 24, 2025

Summarizing Sony Supporters Amici Briefs in Cox v. Sony

This week marks the latest development in the Cox Communications, Inc., et al. v. Sony Music Entertainment case, with amicus briefs filed by eleven Sony supporters. These briefs argue generally that Cox should be held contributorily liable for copyright infringement by its users because its termination policy for alleged repeat infringers was inadequate. They generally call for a broad…
October 17, 2025

Re:Create Joins ALA, ARL, EFF in Amicus Brief in Support of Petitioners in Cox v. Sony

In the landmark Supreme Court case, Cox v. Sony Re:Create joined coalition members American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in an amicus brief in support of the petitioners in Cox v. Sony.