Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) recently introduced H. Res. 1005, a non-binding House resolution supporting creator rights (Congress-speak for "this is important to talk about and here's what we officially think" without making an actual law).

Khanna's office also published a companion Creator Bill of Rights framework that details the seven specific protections the resolution endorses.

@tynanpurdy.com

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@marcimccue.bsky.social

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Tynan Purdy

@tynanpurdy.com

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"Grant creators the ability to maintain decentralized, opt-in, direct relationships with audiences who choose to engage with their work, which enables creators to move between platforms without losing their audiences. "

Marci McCue

@marcimccue.bsky.social

See #4, let's do it.

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Clearly, ATproto already aligns with this. After looking at it myself, some of the other resolutions in the "Creators Bill of Rights" also seem relevant for the ATmosphere as further opportunities to find alignment.

3. Clear, transparent, and predictable revenue-sharing terms between platforms and creators for the content and labor that generate value for those platforms,

How does this translate to protocols? Who is the platform this applies to? If money changes hands contractually, there's likely an institution that can classify as "the platform".

4. Ability for creators to maintain decentralized, opt-in, direct relationships with audiences who choose to engage with their work, enabling creators to move between platforms without losing their audiences;

ATproto solves this! More platforms and protocols should join.

5. Offering robust small business resources to creators and digital workers, supporting transparency around platform algorithms that affect compensation and visibility, and protecting workers against misclassification under existing federal labor law;

The ATproto community is uniquely positioned to advance this. If there's anything from this Creator Bill of Rights document I'd want to align my own work with it's this one.

7. Transparency, consent, and accountability standards related to the use of artificial intelligence and synthetic media that materially affect creators’ identities, reputations, or livelihoods.

ATproto doesn't have mechanisms for machine readable feed algorithms transparency. That could be something interesting to explore for algorithmic governance and user choice.

I wonder who the primary drivers of this resolution initiative are. Could be useful allies to have in our ecosystem.