Brandon Butler

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Dir Info Policy @ UVA Library. Copyright advisor for libraries, filmmakers, podcasters, publishers, and authors. Runner. Guitarist.
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Brandon Butler (@bc_butler) on X

I’ve been settling in behind the scenes, but today we’re announcing it broadly: I’m thrilled to say I’m the new Executive Director of the ReCreate Coalition! This is my dream job, and there’s never been a more important time to defend balanced copyright and fair use.

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Seems like existing law has some pretty serious consequences for harmful uses of political deepfakes — Criminal charges and FCC fines issued for deepfake Biden robocalls https://www.npr.org/2024/05/23/nx-s1-4977582/fcc-ai-deepfake-robocall-biden-new-hampshire-political-operative
How copyright is killing creativity — except Taylor Swift’s - The Hill
https://apple.news/AUZ268QbPQ8uXx8E9eL0qPQ
How copyright is killing creativity — except Taylor Swift’s — The Hill

Music critics have had enough. Taylor Swift, they say, is making too much music.

Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post) - Technology & Marketing Law Blog

By Kieran McCarthy Elon Musk may have done more to open the Internet to web scraping than any person or public interest advocacy group. Not that he meant to do this, mind you. He was trying to do the opposite....

Technology & Marketing Law Blog
“Police indiscriminately sprayed tear gas into the crowd, at one point hitting a Daily Progress reporter and other members of the media covering the conflict.” https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/education/police-raid-uva-encampment-arrest-anti-war-protesters/article_b869f354-0a54-11ef-9a35-bf020acf72c1.html
Police raid UVa encampment, arrest anti-war protesters

The quiet and peaceful protest on Grounds came to a violent and chaotic end Saturday afternoon.

The Daily Progress
I have a couple of chapters in this excellent copyright guide for libraries and librarians - very positive review in Library Journal: https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/copyright-best-practices-for-academic-libraries-2227587
Copyright: Best Practices for Academic Libraries

Library Journal
It's a hoot to hear the drum break from "Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangster" on this new Vampire Weekend record. What's the original source, I wonder? #googleitforme #thingsishouldknow
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Congress: Don't Let Anyone Own The Law | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/congress-no-one-should-own-law
Congress: Don't Let Anyone Own The Law

We should all have the freedom to read, share, and comment on the laws we must live by. But yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee voted 19-4 to move forward the PRO Codes Act (H.R. 1631), a bill that would limit those rights in a critical area. Now that this bill has passed committee, we urgently need your help—tell Congress to reject the Pro Codes Act.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
This week COMMUNIA and other members of the #A2KCoalition are in Geneva attending @WIP0 #SCCR/45, discussing the draft treaty on the protection of broadcasters, #copyright exceptions for education and research, and #generativeAI and copyright. https://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=80924
Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights: Forty-Fifth Session