NTCA CEO Wants Stronger Copyright Protection for ISPs

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2024 – Internet providers, designed to be neutral carriers of information, now face million-dollar penalties and ambiguous court rulings under a law originally designed to protect them. 

The lack of regulatory clarity around the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has placed Internet Service Providers in an impossible situation, warned Shirley Bloomfield, CEO of NTCA – the Rural Broadband Association, in a recent blog.

Without clear and consistent laws, especially in the face of courts issuing differing opinions, “compliance becomes a high-stakes game,’” Bloomfield said, “ISPs are left to interpret the DMCA and decide on their own which conflicting judicial interpretation they will follow.”