This is a friendly message from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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EFF – Electronic Frontier Foundation
ACTION ALERT
Tell Congress to stop the copyright creep:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/stop-copyright-creepStop
In 2020, two bills on copyright made it into the year-end omnibus bill. That
meant that an unconstitutional proposal and one that no one in the public had ever seen before were made law, without having to stand on their own merits.
This year, we want to make sure that doesn’t happen again.
Take Action:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/stop-copyright-creep
We know of three bad proposals which could be included in 2022:
– The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), which would create link taxes and devastate the ability of users to trace back information to its source online
– The Stopping Harmful Offers on Platforms by Screening Against Fakes inE-commerce Act (SHOP SAFE), which would mandate filtering for trademarks—which could include simple words—on any online service by which a person could buy or sell.
– The Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act, which would mandate a slew of copyright filters which would devastate legal expression online and harm online security.
This list doesn’t include any secretly-written bills, like 2020’s felony streaming law.
We want to make sure Congress knows that any bill that would restrict online expression in the name of a so-called intellectual property interest has no place in must-pass legislation.
Tell Congress to stop the copyright creep:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/stop-copyright-creep
Thank you,
Katharine Trendacosta
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#Activism | Impact Litigation | #Technology
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