Stakeholders in the adult entertainment industry need to be aware of a proposal to amend the current DMCA policies because there is an effort on now in the United States Senate called “SMART Copyright Act“ — aka “SMART Act — that will reform U.S. copyright laws. This new bill would
Officially known as “Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of 2022, S. 3880,” the SMART Copyright Act would establish a new content filtering regime across the entire Internet. It also would grant the U.S. Copyright Office the power to mandate that Websites that accept user-uploaded content must automatically deploy technical measures to filter that content.
Supporters of the amendment believe that this new law will prevent copyright infringement. This group includes the Recording Industry Association of America, Motion Picture Associataion, National Music Publishers Association, Authors Guild, Society of Composers & Lyricists, and Association of American Publishers.
Groups opposing the proposal include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Internet Archive, Creative Commons, Fight for the Future, Computer & Communications Industry Association, Public Knowledge, Consumer Technology Association, Authors Alliance, and R Street Institute. Several of these groups in opposition signed a joint letter to the proposal sponsors — Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) — that said the bill violates the “careful balance between innovation and copyright protection struct by the DMCA.”
An indepth review about the SMART Copyright Act can be found in this article on Plagiarism Today.
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