Electronic Frontier Foundation - After decades of increasingly draconian statutes and judicial decisions, our copyright system has veered far away from its original purpose. To help get copyright back on track, EFF is joining forces with a variety of groups—including libraries, industry associations, and public interest advocates—to launch a new coalition focused on promoting smart, balanced copyright policy: Re:create.
Restoring a sense of balance, fairness, and rationality to the copyright system has never been more urgent. Copyright is supposed to promote creativity, but too often we’ve seen it used to shut down innovation, new creative expression, and even everyday activities like tinkering with your car. When a farmer needs to ask the Librarian of Congress for permission to fix her tractor, it’s not just the tractor that’s broken.
Re:create members have diverse views on some copyright issues, but we share a commitment to building a copyright system that works and, above all, matches its constitutional purpose.
For EFF, those purposes are not served by unreasonable copyright terms; excessive and unpredictable penalties; laws that punish people for hacking the DRM on their devices in order to repair them, make them work better and fix security flaws—or even talk about it in public; lawsuits that try to stifle new and useful products that enable fair uses; government seizures of blogs that mistakenly include a few infringing links; or proposals to force intermediaries to police (and therefore monitor) user-generated content. What we need instead are tailored incentives for creativity, matched by sensible limits and thoughtful enforcement policies that have been developed through a transparent and democratic process, based on real evidence of costs and benefits.
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