🇺🇲 We applaud the Administration for prioritizing American innovation by discouraging government overreach in AI development. Re:Create remains committed to ensuring that copyright functions as a force for innovation, not as a source of red tape and barriers. More from Executive

From business to policy conversations to education, AI is the talk of the town, but what does copyright have to do with AI? A lot! Check out our Copyright & AI issue page to see more:

Have you been watching the new and highly anticipated Ken Burns docu-series, The American Revolution? Like all doc filmmakers, Burns’ work is powered by fair use techniques such as quoting from historical letters, archival photographs, and other primary source materials to create

BREAKING: WMG has settled with music AI developer Udio. Three giant companies - UMG, WMG, and Sony control the vast majority of commercial music copyrights, and they've all sued the two leading music AI startups, Suno and Udio.

+1 to this—whatever you think about federal preemption of state AI laws, it won't have any effect on copyright, which is a federal statute. State AI regs that conflict with copyright (incl. fair use) are already preempted, in fact, though it's not stopping states from trying.

Copyright, which is the primary thing Davis says he cares about, is a domain almost entirely of federal law. Even broad preemption of state AI regulations wouldn't touch copyright liability. Preemption isn't "amnesty"; it's an extremely common effect of federal policymaking.

What's going on with Reddit and their DMCA lawsuit? In a recent Re:Create Recap Executive Director @Bc_butler broke down Reddit's history and this most recent lawsuit:

Check out the entire Recap here:

In last week's Re:Create Recap, @bc_butler argued that the copyright cartels' attacks on the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law, Copyright—designed to give judges guidance on interpreting complex copyright case law—are weak and misleading:

#FairUseFriday From amateur art students to well-established artists, fair use lets artists build on existing culture to inspire and create new works of art! One stellar example of this is Barbara Kruger’s work with collage, using existing works to create striking new images with

👀 Exciting news from us at Re:Create, our website has a new look! Check it out and explore the issues important to Re:Create members, @bc_butler's insights in blogs, and our new resource section. 🔗 https://t.co/9mVzLWdZEq

There's a long-running communication breakdown between technologists on the one hand and commercial publishers and creators on the other. Technologists and digital researchers often see creative works as data, while publishers and creators see them as commercial art.

In September, groups and individuals committed to balanced copyright filed amicus brief's in support of Ross's appeal in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, on the grounds of Originality and Copyrightability & the four factors of Fair Use. @Project_Disco breaks down the themes

Check out Executive Director @bc_butler's live posting of CU Boulder's AI and the Future of Copyright politics event ⬇️

#FairUseFriday 👏Re:Create member @arlpolicy just released an addendum to its Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: the law has improved to enable library services for people with disabilities. Learn more about fair use and fair information access for all! https://t.co/Y7rV94MLQh

We at EFF hate it when a certain kind of contract—you know the ones, where you hit accept after scrolling for ages just so you can use the app—is used to constrain users’ rights.

Thank you to Re:Create member @library_futures for hosting a panel discussion on the legal and ethical issues in AI. Executive Director @bc_butler spoke on the panel and emphasized how library values support fair use for AI training.

Earlier this week, Re:Create Coalition, @CenDemTech, @EFF and allies submitted comments to the Office of the USTR ahead of the 2026 USMCA review, urging revisions that would explicitly protect the right to repair by carving out trade-rules that could block laws allowing consumers

Good summary of the core copyright holding in today’s UK high court decision on Getty v. Stability. As Adam says, the logic is similar to US fair use - the model is lawful b/c in the end it is something new, not a copy of the training data.

#ICYMI Executive director @bc_butler spoke with @arstechnica’s @ashleynbelanger to discuss the @internetarchive and the future of digital libraries. Butler warns how statutory damages are disrupting a balanced copyright system and access to key information.