"By the end of the year, Tillis — who chairs the Senate’s
intellectual property subcommittee — plans to draft changes to the DMCA.
He and co-chair Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) kicked off the process this
week with an introductory hearing, speaking to eight legal experts and
former congressional staffers. The hearing helped set the stage to
re-fight some long-running battles over the balance between protecting
copyrighted content and keeping the internet open — but at a time where
internet companies are already facing a large-scale backlash.
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in January 2026; Preorders are available via this webpage: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ethics-information-and-technology-9781440856662/
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Copyright could be the next way for Congress to take on Big Tech; The Verge, February 13, 2020
, The Verge; Copyright could be the next way for Congress to take on Big Tech
The 1998 DMCA attempted to outline how copyright should
work on the then-nascent internet, where you could almost freely and
infinitely copy a piece of media. But it’s been widely criticized by
people with very different stances on intellectual property."
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