Tell Congress: Just Say No to NO FAKES
The NO FAKES Act is designed to protect against companies or individuals that use an unauthorized digital likeness of someone by wrapping up those digital replicas in a federal intellectual property right & giving that individual—or their heirs—the right to sue. In doing so, the NO FAKES Act mimics some of the most broken parts of our #copyright system & makes them worse.
For example, the bill includes a safe harbor scheme modeled on the #DMCA notice and #takedown process. But the DMCA process has been abused for decades to target lawful speech, and there’s every reason to suppose NO FAKES will lead to the same result. In order to stay within safe harbors, when a platform receives a takedown notice for an alleged digital replica, it must remove “all instances” of that unlawful content. That requirement will inevitably lead to content “filters” that will #censor lawful speech.
#nofakesact #freespeech #safeharbor #nofakes
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-just-say-no-to-no-fakes