First Amendment and fair use rights must be safeguarded to preserve consumers' freedoms, the creative spirit and advancement in the digital age. Consumer electronics products are a vital link allowing the world's citizens access to information, education and entertainment. Increased access to this technology will shrink the digital divide and produce a renaissance in arts, science, music, academics and creativity across the entire world. Copyright owners must resist the temptation to restrict technology. If successful, restrictions will deprive the public of equal and fair access to information, entertainment and education. CEA is committed to ensuring consumers' continued access to legal, non-infringing products by ensuring the preservation of the Betamax standard, both through legal action and public policy.
The Digital Freedom Campaign The Digital Freedom Campaign protects the rights of artists, innovators and consumers to use digital technology free of unreasonable government restrictions. Digital technologies allow everyone the freedom to be artists, innovators, producers and creators, and to listen, watch, and participate wherever, whenever and however they choose.
Download the 2007 and 2008 Digital Freedom postcards.
What Does Digital Freedom Mean to Artists? How are smart, innovative artists using digital technologies and fair use rights to bolster their success? Watch the latest videos from Digital Freedom artists Samantha Murphy and Middle Distance Runner to learn how the integration of technology and art is integral to their future.
"I submit that the demand for file sharing was created in large part by the recording industry’s stubborn refusal to respond to consumer demand for access to digital music. The best evidence is that even after winning in the Supreme Court and shutting down the largest file sharing services, the RIAA still claims that piracy is its number one problem."
"Piracy is wrong. It is theft. But a grandmother who wants to watch a movie on her bedroom TV instead of in the living room is not a pirate. A teenager who legally downloads a song on his computer and wants to listen to it on a different manufacturer’s MP3 player is not a pirate."
"Digital technology is fundamentally changing the world. It is fostering this new convergence. We are at the starting line, but our teammates include content producers, programmers, software companies, service companies and broadband providers."
"Policy makers must work to ensure our role in the global marketplace by empowering U.S. companies with the means to remain competitive. This means ensuring that intellectual property laws do not restrict our manufacturers' ability to innovate, or the consumer's ability to buy devices that make the most of the content they own."
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