CDT Joins Advocates of Court Transparency and Judiciary in Letter Supporting the Open Courts Act
A segment of the letter is pasted below:
The Open Courts Act funds a means to move from an aging and difficult to navigate CM/ECF system to one that is modern and user-friendly. The legislation also funds a way to store, upload and access the static PDFs that largely comprise CM/ECF and requires that the new structure be implemented in a reasonable amount of time.
The judiciary often notes the potential financial burdens of not collecting fees from the public to retrieve court records. The Open Courts Act, however, provides a “pay-for,” where the judiciary will be fairly compensated while keeping documents free. It is a victory for both the public and federal judiciary. Further, because of your own fiscal responsibility, any unforeseen expenses can be supplemented by the judiciary’s rainy-day fund, as was disclosed to Congress in April. We are confident that between the financial mechanisms in the bill and your resourcefulness, a move to free PACER would not be burdensome.
Read the full letter and list of signatories here.
Not All Guardrails Are Created Equal: Comparing Content Safety and Copyright Filtering
As courts and policymakers work through questions about chatbot liability, they should be wary of analogies that flatten meaningful technical differences. Copyright filtering and safety intervention share real challenges around ambiguity and evasion, but they diverge in what each control must assess, how each manifests over the course of a conversation, and how much can be verified from the outside.
Op-Ed: France’s Constitutional Council Ruling Tests the Limits of Social Media Bans
Read our analysis the legal and policy significance of the Constitutional Council’s decision on ongoing social media age restriction and age assurance debates ahead of the most-anticipated EU-wide approach on child online safety due by December 2026.
The brief explains that Section 230’s liability protections are essential to enable free expression online and they extend to the use of automated systems to engage to rank and order content as part of traditional publishing activities.
