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Mon, Feb 1st 2021 3:37pm — Mike Masnick A few days ago, a friend asked if I'd ever heard of the "Digital Creators Coalition," an apparently new group that claimed to be representing independent artists. I was unfamiliar with it, and its website provided basically no information about who was actually behind it, beyond this vague statement on its "who we are" page: The Digital Creators Coalition (DCC) is a group of associations, companies and organizations that represent individual creators, independent producers, small-and-medium-size enterprises (SMEs), large businesses, and labor organiza...

The federal financial package passed by Congress this week includes long-sought legislation that will help those who post copyrighted content on the internet pursue legal action against those who steal their work. The CASE Act establishes a mediation panel for copyright claims of $30,000 or less. It is considered a win nationwide, but particularly in Maine, which has a large number of independent and individual creators, said Douglas Preston, president of the Authors Guild, which was instrumental in getting the legislation before Congress. "By establishing a small claims court in the Copyr...