Robots Have No Place Filtering Creative Content, EFF Tells U.S. Copyright Office

Software robots should not be deciding whether your creative content, whether written words, videos, photos, or music, ought to be pulled off the internet.

That’s what we told the U.S. Copyright office in comments we filed February 8 arguing against requiring service providers to embrace “standard technical measures” to address copyright infringement. While some technologies can be useful to flag potential infringement, technical measures such as automated filters are dangerous because they cannot reliably sort lawful from unlawful expression. They …

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