Katharine Trendacosta: The US DMCA, Upload Filters, SOPA-PIPA, Fanfiction, & Platform Competition

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Katharine Trendacosta is Associate Director of Policy and Activism at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Her areas of expertise are competition, broadband access, intellectual property, net neutrality, fair use, free speech online, and intermediary liability. She is the former managing editor of science fiction and science website io9, and spent many years writing about technology policy and pop culture for various publications. Katharine notably talks about the good and the bad of the DMCA and the issues surrounding upload filters. She reflects on why the SOPA-PIPA debate mattered and how the underlying issues still linger. Katharine recalls how fanfiction sparked her interest in copyright and shares her hopes to see more smaller platforms pop-up as alternative avenues for creators and users.
📌Key Takeaways
🌟Recommendations and Reformations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
🌟Problems and Issues on How Big Techs and Major Platforms handle Online Contents
🌟The effects to Online Content Creators on controlling and monopolizing contents on Internet by the Big Techs
🌟The Importance of Stopping SOPA PIPA to online communities and online content creators
📌Quote Takeaways
“This Major Tech does not fear content creators suing them; instead, they fear enormous firms like Disney, which have the financial resources to battle them in court, so they design filters that accommodate these big companies rather than making them enemies.” - Kath
📌Special Mentions in The Episode
☑️Unfiltered: How YouTube’s Content ID Discourages Fair Use and Dictates What We See Online
☑️Fanfiction Debacle with Anne Rice
☑️Nebula - Nebula is a place to experiment, explore, and tailor our content to audience, not to unskippable ads or recommendation algorithms.
☑️DMCA - Digital Millennium Copyright Act
☑️SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act
☑️PIPA - PROTECT IP Act
📌Guest of this Episode
🎙️Katharine Trendacosta | Profile | Linkedin | Twitter
Associate Director of Policy and Activism at Electronic Frontier Foundation
www.eff.org
🎙️Gwen Franck | Linkedin | Twitter
Communications Specialist at EGI Foundation | Communications and Events at Knowledge Centre Data & Society
gwenfranck.com
📌Time Stamp
⏲️[00:00] Introduction
⏲️[02:13] Updates for DMCA
⏲️[10:17] Upload Filters of major platforms
⏲️[19:27] Predictions
⏲️[23:38] Big Tech Monopolies
⏲️[28:44] SOPA PIPA
⏲️[37:37] Takeaways from our Guest and her predictions
This podcast was produced by Heartcast Media.