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Sharon E. Farb retweeted
When Chairman Issa's siteblocking bill dropped with a thud last week, Big Content was eerily quiet about it. Turns out it wasn't draconian enough for them - they wanted a bill with even less protection for the public, and here it is: the "DEFEND IP Act." NOPE.
The DEFEND IP Act is an attack on the open web. 🌐
By forcing ISPs to act as copyright censors and streamlining site takedowns, this bill risks wiping out lawful small businesses, non-profits, and educational sites overnight.
Read Executive Director @bc_butler's full statement: recreatecoalition.org/press_…
Sharon E. Farb retweeted
Fast-tracked site-blocking bills bypass legal channels and invite copyright abuse, disrupting small businesses, nonprofits, and global internet users.
Re:Create Executive Director @bc_butler shares why the proposed American Copyright Protection Act (ACPA) risks severe collateral damage to our digital ecosystem and threatens free speech, privacy, and the open web. recreatecoalition.org/press_…
Sharon E. Farb retweeted
Breaking: Lonnie Bunch, the head of the Smithsonian Institution, is stepping down, @ables_kelsey reports. His departure comes amid months of clashes with the White House. theatln.tc/JG1baBYN
Sharon E. Farb retweeted
They're right! The brief hits all the high points quite well, leaning appropriately on the Constitutional purpose of copyright and the compelling analysis in the Google Books case. Plus, a stern rebuttal of the wildly mistaken "market dilution" argument.
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Joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and Canada.
ALT Joint statement from the leaders of United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and Canada. Read full statement here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/joint-statement-on-israeli-governments-decision-to-publish-construction-tenders-for-the-e1-settlement-project
Sharon E. Farb retweeted
ENORMOUS: @MIT_CSAIL has just blown a hole that size in every gen AI © suit basing liability for outputs on whether an image was used for training a model. FINDING: Removing an image from a large dataset does NOT affect whether it can be (re)generated!🧵
xitter.cf/MIT_CSAIL/status/20901…
New MIT paper finds that you can can delete an artist from an AI model's training data & nothing changes.
CSAIL engineers also observed that it's hard to trace AI-generated images to specific data. Their work raises new questions about AI copyright: bit.ly/3U6ZncH
Sharon E. Farb retweeted
if we don’t figure out fair use in training AI at the input layer the united states will cede its position at the technological forefront to jurisdictions who have. this is the most important situation to monitor rn but it’s boring legal and political stuff so most don’t get it.
Sharon E. Farb retweeted
Pat and Peter are my heroes, and I'm proud to have Peter as my law partner. Their work on fair use has brought so many communities out of hiding and fear and enabled them to do more, better work, starting with filmmakers but growing to 18 (!!!) fair use best practices docs: cmsimpact.org/report-list/co…
💃 Copyright uncertainty can keep culture out of public view, even when it's been preserved.
In RECLAIMING FAIR USE, copyright scholars Patricia Aufderheide & Peter Jaszi join Dave Hansen to explain how communities can put fair use into practice. One example: after the dance community developed a Code of Best Practices, archives began confidently sharing excerpts of historic performance footage online. 📚🎞️
Hear Patricia Aufderheide & Peter Jaszi with Dave Hansen on the Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧 Listen & subscribe:
futureknowledge.transistor.f…
Sharon E. Farb retweeted
Michelle Obama: We simply don't have the luxury or time to be cynical or complacent, to wring our hands in despair, or to wait for someone else to fix the problem. Hope is all we have, because hope is the essential spark that lights the fire of change. But hope is a choice. Whether or not we use our voices to speak up is a choice. Voting is a choice. Being a decent human being is a choice. Believing that we still hold the power to build a country that reflects us all is a choice.
Sharon E. Farb retweeted
“This bill is a naked power grab on behalf of the White House.” Read our statement from Senior Policy Counsel @M_F_Rose:
publicknowledge.org/public-k…
Sharon E. Farb retweeted
I’m leaving the Capitol at 4am after Republicans rammed through a vote paving a path for $70B to fund ICE for years without any reforms/accountability. They rejected all Dem proposals to lower your healthcare costs, housing, and gas prices. Spread the word. We need to stop this.
Sharon E. Farb retweeted
The Internet Archive and WayBackMachine has been such an essential tool in archiving information and looking up anything relevant for #OSINT research. This threat to shut it down using copyright excuses is really bad, and must be stopped
Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history.
Media giants are now threatening to do this.
We can't let this happen.
Pass it on.
Sharon E. Farb retweeted
I’ve introduced Articles of Impeachment against Pete Hegseth for violating his oath, endangering U.S. servicemembers, and committing war crimes, including attacks on civilians and a girls’ school in Minab, Iran. Only Congress can declare war; his actions demand immediate removal.
Sharon E. Farb retweeted
BREAKING: 55 members of the US House of Representatives and two US senators have called for activating the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution to remove Trump from power.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The original reporter for this information is Andrew Solender of Axios; this poster just copied Andrew's images:
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Sharon E. Farb retweeted
Wrapped up rehearsal for tomorrow’s dance 🪩
#GoBruins
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🚨 BREAKING: Republicans block TSA funding again.
“The gentleman chooses not to.”
Democrats put forward a clean bill—full TSA funding, no conditions.
Blocked.
FIRE THEM ALL
Not once. Not twice. Over a dozen times.
Sharon E. Farb retweeted
NOW THAT I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AM OFFICIALLY PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (THANK YOU DONALD!), I HAVE MANY BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS TO MAKE! FIRST, EVERY TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER IS NULL AND VOID, STEPHEN MILLER AND EVERY TRUMP GOON IS FIRED, AND THE TRUMP CORRUPTION PROBE IS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED! HEALTH CARE IS NOW FREE FOR ALL AMERICANS (NO MEASLES!) AND ALL MOMS GET FREE CHILDCARE SO WE CAN HAVE MORE BABIES!!! ALSO CANNABIS IS NOW LEGAL AND ABORTION IS BACK FOR WOMEN WHO WANT IT. I WILL SOON BE BANNING ALL TICKETMASTER FEES AND THERE WILL BE NO MORE COMMERCIALS ALLOWED DURING NBA AND NFL GAMES, AS WELL AS ALL BRAVO “REAL HOUSEWIVES” SHOWS (LONGER EPISODES!). EVERY AMERICAN FAMILY NOW GETS A “TARIFF AND GAS SPIKE REFUND” TO BUY A CHEAP ELECTRIC CAR! THE COUNTRY IS NOW RUN BY SOMEONE WHO CAN ACTUALLY COMPLETE A SENTENCE. AMERICA IS NOW “HOT” BECAUSE YOU HAVE A DYSLEXIC PRESIDENT INSTEAD OF A BRAIN-DEAD ONE. BIG UPGRADE!!! — GOVERNOR GCN
Sharon E. Farb retweeted
Like Rodney Dangerfield, the second factor gets no respect. It deserves better. The Second Circuit’s Judge Pierre Leval, in Authors Guild v. Google, neatly summed up the view of nearly every court that has taken up a fair use question: “The second factor has rarely played a significant role in the determination of a fair use dispute.” At best, most fair use opinions devote no more than a couple of paragraphs to the second factor.
authorsalliance.org/2026/02/…
