{"id":25846,"date":"2022-03-18T19:24:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T19:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/?p=25846"},"modified":"2022-03-29T20:51:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:51:29","slug":"public-knowledge-opposes-bill-granting-copyright-office-authority-to-mandate-content-monitoring-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/public-knowledge-opposes-bill-granting-copyright-office-authority-to-mandate-content-monitoring-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Knowledge Opposes Bill Granting Copyright Office Authority To Mandate Content Monitoring Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the \u201cStrengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies (SMART) Copyright Act of 2022.\u201d The bill forces every digital platform or website that allows for user-generated, uploaded content to use content monitoring software designated by the Copyright Office to avoid facing copyright infringement claims. Public Knowledge opposes the bill due to its reliance on government technology mandates; the lack of technical expertise within the Copyright Office; and unconstitutional delegation of authority to a non-expert agency within the legislative branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following can be attributed to Nicholas Garcia, Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis bill is the latest example of legislation that threatens the vibrant, open, and innovative internet in the name of intellectual property protection. This bill will force digital platforms and websites to implement technical measures that monitor <em>all<\/em> content that users upload, automatically scrutinizing everything we write, create, and upload online for the sake of copyright protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat is worse is that the details of these technical measures don\u2019t even exist yet, and Congress has decided to give authority over these still-unknown and untested monitoring programs to the Copyright Office, which has very little technical expertise and a known history of prioritizing corporate interests over the interests of internet users and individual creators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo be clear: This bill opens the door to online censorship on a massive scale. While Public Knowledge steadfastly believes that protecting copyrighted works is essential for promoting creativity and protecting the livelihoods of creators, this bill threatens the very values it claims to protect and would be disastrous for a free, creative, and culturally rich internet. Unfortunately, the SMART Act is anything but.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about Public Knowledge&#8217;s opposition to this bill in our <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/policy\/civil-society-letter-to-congress-opposing-smart-copyright-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">group letter to Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Knowledge opposes SMART Copyright Act of 2022 for opening the door to online censorship at a massive scale at the direction of the Copyright Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":23988,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-25846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-copyright-reform"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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