Tillis and Schiff Want Answers from ALI on Mass Resignations Around Latest Copyright Restatement Project; IP Watchdog, February 20, 2026

 EILEEN MCDERMOTT, IP Watchdog; Tillis and Schiff Want Answers from ALI on Mass Resignations Around Latest Copyright Restatement Project

"Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, respectively, sent a letter on Thursday to Director of the American Law Institute (ALI) Diane Wood asking for answers to 14 questions about the latest Copyright Restatement Project.

The letter follows mass resignations from the project last year over concerns about the final approved product. Specifically, key copyright proponents resigned over what one of those who resigned, Copyright Alliance CEO Keith Kupferschmid, referred to as “a general undercurrent of anti-copyright sentiment that…manifests itself through a disproportionate focus on atypical court decisions that limit the scope of copyright protection.”

There has been vocal criticism of the project from copyright circles, including the Copyright Office, for years."

'Disinformation laundering': Experts slam Lara Trump’s reply to GOP senator’s disaster relief statement; AlterNet, October 6, 2024

 Maya Boddie, AlterNet; 'Disinformation laundering': Experts slam Lara Trump’s reply to GOP senator’s disaster relief statement

"Donald Trump's daughter-in-law and Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump on Sunday morning claimed that western North Carolinians are not receiving a sufficient federal disaster response. 

CNN's Dana Bash pushed back on he Republican National Committee co-chair's comments by playing a clip of US Senator Thom Tillis' (R-NC) Saturday comments during a press conference, in which the Republican leader praised the response from the Biden-Harris administration thus far.

"I'm actually impressed with how much attention was paid to a region that wasn't likely to have experienced the impact that they did," Tillis said. "For anybody that think that any level of government could have been prepared precisely for what we're dealing with, clearly are clueless. But right now, I'm out here to say, we're doing a good job."

Bash then emphasized that Tillis "and others are saying please to the former president and others, stop spreading misinformation, because it's hurting people in North Carolina."

Lara Trump replied, "I'm so glad to hear he feels that way, but it's coming directly from people there. You can go online and you can look at people recording videos of themselves and posting online saying, 'We need help. No one has come here.'"

WLRN reporter Danny Rivero replied to Lara Trump's interview clip posted to X, writing: "Disinformation laundering is a term and concept more people in media should be aware of. Politician spreads disinformation > gullible people start repeating it > politician cites the people repeating it as proof of step one. This is disinformation laundering"

Michigan GOP Watch commented: "Get this. Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of Donald Trump, knows more about the situation on the ground than the Republican senator of North Carolina.""