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Just yesterday we saw two wretched copyright bills-the CASE Act and a felony streaming bill — slipped into law via a must-pass spending bill. But it seems some people in Congress were just getting started. Today, Senator Thom Tillis launched a “discussion draft” of the so-called Digital Copyright Act. But there’s nothing to discuss: the bill, if passed, would absolutely devastate the Internet. We’ll have a more in-depth analysis of this draft bill later, but we want to be clear about our opposition from the start: this bill is bad for Internet users, creators, and start-ups. The one...

Just yesterday we saw two wretched copyright bills-the CASE Act and a felony streaming bill -- slipped into law via a must-pass spending bill. But it seems some people in Congress were just getting started. Today, Senator Thom Tillis launched a "discussion draft" of the so-called Digital Copyright Act. But there's nothing to discuss: the bill, if passed, would absolutely devastate the Internet. We’ll have a more in-depth analysis of this draft bill later, but we want to be clear about our opposition from the start: this bill is bad for Internet users, creators, and start-ups. The ones with ...

Today, EFF is publishing a new white paper, “How YouTube’s Content ID Discourages Fair Use and Dictates What We See Online.” The paper analyzes the effects of YouTube’s automated copyright filter, Content ID, on the creative economy that has sprung up around the platform. Major platforms like YouTube have used copyright filters that prevent their users from expressing themselves even in ways that are allowed under copyright law. As lobbyists for Big Content—major record labels, big Hollywood studios, and the like—push for the use of broader and stricter filtering technology, it�...

Speeches. that made big news. how hard was it to get those words into that speech? >> it only took three people working a week and a half to do it. >> seriously, did you have to lobby for that? >> no, no. look, in the bush administration, it was a much -- sometimes people it's like the speech writers had control of the asylum there was much more agreement for the writers in that administration. it was a very writerly administration. they drove a lot of it. president bush always liked big themes, big messages, big content. and he was a high stakes president. and that phrase, it had very high st...