The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a San Francisco-based digital rights group, this week called on US voters to consider contacting their representatives in Congress in order to urge them not to vote for the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act.
EFF's argument is that, if passed, this bill could easily end up bankrupting ordinary internet users, while never efficiently addressing the problem it was meant to tackle – simplifying the process by which artists can lodge copyright complaints and collect damages in cases concerning, like the proposed act says on the box – “small claims.”
The digital rights group makes a point of the fact that the new legislation would not hold the new Copyright Claims Board it envisions to the same standards as “real courts” – where suing on copyright infringement grounds “requires a valid copyright registration so that there is a verifiable record about the owner and date of creation of the work at issue.”
But should the CASE Act be passed – legal protections would be watered down all the way to removing this requirement – and in the end, making copyright claims “almost impossible to appeal.”
https://reclaimthenet.org/congress-case-act/
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| Sponsor: | Rep. Jeffries, Hakeem S. [D-NY-8] (Introduced 05/01/2019) |
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| Committees: | House - Judiciary |
| Latest Action: | House - 09/10/2019 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote. (All Actions) |
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116th CONGRESS
1st Session |
H. R. 2426 |
Mr. Jeffries (for himself, Mr. Collins of Georgia, Mr. Nadler, Mrs. Roby, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Cline, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, and Mr. Fitzpatrick) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
SEC. 2. COPYRIGHT SMALL CLAIMS.
(a) In General.—Title 17, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: