The Directors Guild of America doesn’t want any new NAFTA agreement to extend the ISP safe harbor for pirated content.

Sec. 512 of the Copyright Act limits ISP liability for online infringement by sites they provide access to. Sec. 512 requires ISPs to generally expeditiously address piracy, but the Directors Guild doesn’t think that is strong enough and does not want that weakness extended across the border via NAFTA.

But if NAFTA does include an ISP safe harbor, it wants its director/creator members to have an easier means to file takedown notices.