Charlottesville: Swords Into Plowshares needs your input. How should we recast the bronze ingots from the melted Lee statue? How can we reclaim public space? Come meet the design firms, see their proposals, view photos of the melting. 6pm Saturday, March 14 at the Jefferson School. www.sipcville.com

It's always useful to tune in to these investor calls, where companies have a legal obligation to tell the truth, among other incentives, which makes it harder to claim that the sky is falling due to whatever the current bogeyman may be: progresschamber.org/news/univers...

My daughter (15) was calling her least favorite classmates "pick me girls" for years before I realized it had something to do with Gray's Anatomy—which she has never seen. Culture travels and morphs in such interesting ways! Happy #fairusefriday, y'all!

#Fairusefriday is a good day for Prof. Ed Lee's paper, Copyright Dilution Under Constitutional Scrutiny, to be officially published in its final form. It's a vital contribution, as theories of "market dilution" continue to be proffered against AI training as a fair use.

Agreed. Technology may ease the way to creating art or expressing ideas, but deciding what to create, what to say, and (among all the options available to you with whatever tech you have) how to say it, is still the crucial step that is, IMO, irreducibly human.

Not sure it it's exactly the same as social media, but interesting thread on the moral panic about kids becoming addicted to books a century ago

ICYMI: Exeuctive Director @bb.usefairuse.com authored a blog for @harvardlibrary.bsky.social's Fair Use Week series.

During #FairUseWeek ARL & @recreatecoalition.bsky.social teamed up to host a panel of legal & policy experts from libraries & civil society. Read our blog post by @katherinejk.bsky.social: www.arl.org/blog/celebra... Panelists shown, L to R: David Hansen, @bb.usefairuse.com, Betsy Rosenblatt

Before Fair Use Week comes to a close (sigh!), I want to highlight another excellent fair use blog post, by Wayne Brough from Re:Create member @rstreet.bsky.social. Wayne is an economist by training, and his take on the doctrine through that lens is crisp and clear: www.rstreet.org/commentary/...

Happy Fair Use Friday during #fairuseweek! We’ve celebrated how fair use is essential to innovation & creativity, giving America a competitive edge. Check out our new one-pager explaining what fair use is, how we use it daily, and its impact on U.S. innovation! recreatecoalition.org/infographic/...

I had to go largely offline for the last few days to travel up to DC and back for our big fair use panel on the Hill, so I'm catching up today on some of the Fair Use Week fun that I've missed! Two new blog posts dropped on the Harvard Fair Use Week landing page:

While not universally true, it is generally true that the tighter the control on production & distribution you place on an intellectual work, the less likely it will survive into posterity. If you want something to last, make it good, make lots of it, and make it easy for others to make more of it.

Nobody tell Judge Alsup—this long lost bit of film history only exists today because of unauthorized copying!

Today's the day! Our Capitol Hill briefing for Fair Use Week is at 11:30am in the Russell Senate Office Building. So excited to bring this group of experts to DC to help share the good news about fair use and balanced copyright!*

Gov. Abigail Spanberger: "The scale of the corruption is unprecedented. There's the cover up of the Epstein files, the crypto scams, cozying up to foreign princes for airplanes and billionaires for ballrooms, putting his name and face on buildings all over our nation's capital."

Fair Use Week is here!! This week we are so excited to celebrate with our friends @arlpolicy and many more. Check out ARL's kick off blog post for a rundown of some key events and online resources: www.arl.org/blog/partic...

Chris is stuck abroad thanks to the snowstorm, but the rest of us are still gathering on Wednesday at the Russell Senate Office Building to talk fair use and AI and anything else y'all want to talk about! Hope to see you there!

"I've done the rounds and no rightsholder is against our vision," is a pretty telling sentence. You can "make the rounds" and talk to the major copyright owners in music by making less than six phone calls. If artists want to assert their interests as workers, copyright is not the way.

Join us for insights from Re:Create’s @bb.usefairuse.com, @authorsalliance.bsky.social's @davehansen.bsky.social, Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development, Case Western Reserve University Law School Betsy Rosenblatt

Before they were presidents, they were candidates, and they had to sell themselves to the American people. We can learn a lot from these ads, and thanks to fair use, we can reuse them for our own criticism, commentary, and creativity! Happy #fairusefriday!

Fair use powers innovation, creativity, and countless industries, helping drive the U.S. economy and maintain America's global leadership. Yet, some mischaracterize fair use and downplay its benefits. To set the record straight, Re:Create put out a new infographic:

🚨 Re:Create released a statement in response to the U.S. Copyright Office's report on the CCB, highlighting how the one-sided copyright reform has only cost taxpayers more while insignificantly benefiting creators. Executive Director @bb.usefairuse.com shares more:

Maybe we'll touch on scary movies next month, when the 13th falls on #fairuseFriday AGAIN! 🔪 For this month, let's focus on love, actually 💘 - and how fair use can help you pick a good rom-com to watch this weekend:

Check out Executive Director @bb.usefairuse.com's recent blog about how Google Books shows that “memorization” and outputting training data are not fatal to fair use 👀 recreatecoalition.org/a-note-from-...

YES

Love everything about this.

The CLEAR Act would stifle America’s competitive advantage in AI. Creating an overburdensome “disclosure” requirement for legal activity would: 🔎Chill academic and non-profit research 💡Drain resources from startups 📉Dismantle our innovation ecosystem Read the full statement from @bb.usefairuse.com:

I love @TaylorLorenz.bsky.social's combination of passion and erudition about Section 230 in this video. If you don't know the 230 story (or you just want a refresher), this series looks like a must-watch. Episode 1 is live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eq...

Don't miss next week's Re:Create recap where Executive Director @bb.usefairuse.com breaks down the latest copyright policy developments. Sign up here: mailchi.mp/recreatecoal...

Exact copies can be transformative, politician edition

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is supporting The Heritage Foundation's tech policy agenda, boosting a proposed law by Lindsey Graham that would mass deplatform LGBTQ people and censor abortion content from the internet. And he's trying to frame it as progressive!

Join ARL & @recreatecoalition.bsky.social for a congressional staff briefing during #FairUseWeek, Wed Feb 25 in DC, on #AI & #FairUse! RSVP: bit.ly/FUW26briefing @authorsalliance.bsky.social @nyulaw.bsky.social @eff.org @bb.usefairuse.com @davehansen.bsky.social @ktrendacosta.bsky.social

Of course the biggest shared cultural event of the year is also massively fueled by fair use! Happy #fairusefriday!

In the latest Re:Create Recap note, I explain how the work of computer science researchers tricking AI models into spitting out copies of training data doesn't have the dire legal consequences some commentators advertise. We know because the 2nd Circuit said so in Google Books.

This is your biweekly reminder that if you're not signed up for the Re:Create ReCap, you should be! Commentary from me, copyright news and events, and every issue includes a recommended longread! This week's is Ed Lee on the Constitutional infirmity of "market dilution" theory.

Journalists don’t just report from the web anymore—they report on it 🕵️‍♀️ Learn 9 Ways Web Archives Are Used In Digital Investigations on how reporters track deleted pages, uncover hidden connections, document edits & follow what vanishes, Read FOLLOW THE CHANGES ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/02/02/f...

Don’t miss insights from @bb.usefairuse.com in today’s Re:Create recap. Today’s edition includes: 📚The Google Book’s case AI application ❌Opposition to VACRA 📅The countdown to fair use week Read more: mailchi.mp/recreatecoal...

It's no accident that when lobbyists for online advertisers (Big Pop Up?) write their dream bill to turn the internet into a wholly monetized hellscape where they decide how you browse, the first thing they do is kill fair use. It's One Weird Trick to turn the Web into that scene

#FairUseFriday Fair use plays an essential role in preserving art forms from one generation to the next.

"Two iconic U.S. newsrooms slash reporting and stress opinion writing even as Minnesota proves the need for factual journalism," writes columnist Will Bunch.

Someone at the @washingtonpost dialed back the inflammatory "destroy millions of books" headline on @WillOremus' piece. Appreciate that. Is it the same for everyone? I've seen three different headlines on this story since it was first published.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

I feel once again compelled to emphasis the digitizing in the literal scanning sense is fairly unimportant if it is not accompanied with metadata providing context for discovery. Both humans and AI will make things up when they don't know what they are looking at.

Since “theft” and “destruction” are the lingua franca of AI-copyright discourse, let me put fair use into those terms so folks can understand. Not everything in a copyrighted work is private property. Copyrighted works contain facts, ideas, and raw materials

The latest AI training scandal is that Anthropic…spent hundreds of millions of dollars legally buying books! The horror. The "lengths these companies will go to" for their dastardly plan of [checks notes] avoiding even the appearance of impropriety.

📨 Today, Re:Create sent a letter to U.S. Sen. Blackburn's office sharing concerns about the recently introduced, Visual Artists Copyright Reform Act of 2025 (VACRA).

EU watchers, if you want a breakdown of the good, bad, and ugly in the new EU Parliament report on AI training, @communia.bsky.social has you covered. A new, bespoke press publishers right, overbroad transparency obligations, it's... not great. communia-association.org/2026/01/26/...

What’s up with Geese. Like, they’re not good, but people act like they are. It’s weird.

I love this series! Tune in every Friday for CC's latest PD goodness. A lovely companion to #fairusefriday!

Innovation isn't stealing. (And copying isn't theft, either, fwiw.)