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Righthaven’s Brand o...
Copyright trolls are nothing new, and Righthaven is just the latest group of lawyers to try to turn copyright litigation into a business model. What these lawyers have in common is that they seek to take advantage of copyright’s draconian damages in order to bully Internet users into forking over money
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Righthaven’s Brand of Copyright Trolling
EFF Asks Court to Protect ...
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of public interest groups and law professors have asked a California appeals court to protect craigslist from a lawsuit that could spur websites to be less helpful in responding to complaints about user behavior. In Scott P. v.
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EFF Asks Court to Protect Craigslist from Defamation Suit
Reading, Writing, and RFID...
Scary news from California’s Contra Costa County — school officials there have reportedly decided to track some preschoolers with RFID chips , thanks to a federal grant supplying the funding. According to a story from the Associated Press, the students will wear a jersey at school that has the RFID tag attached.
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Reading, Writing, and RFID Chips: A Scary...
Good News: Security Resear...
Hari Prasad, the Indian security researcher arrested for allegedly stealing an electronic voting machine, has been released on bail . Earlier this year, an anonymous source gave the machine to Prasad and a team of researchers, who discovered critical security flaws. Under questioning by authorities last weekend, Prasad refused to divulge the identity of the source who gave them the machine.
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Colbert’s Word: Cont...
Just a few weeks after his interview with EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn, American hero Stephen Colbert has returned to the subject of digital rights. And he’s come up with a great solution to the problem of privacy and online social networks: Control-Self-Delete
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Colbert’s Word: Control-Self-Delete
Facebook Should Stop Censo...
Facebook is facing down another embarrassing episode of censorship this week after refusing to show ads submitted by the Just Say Now marijuana legalization campaign.
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Facebook Should Stop Censoring Marijuana Legalization Campaign Ads
Musopen Wants to Give Clas...
Music lovers take note: the classical music archive Musopen needs your help to liberate some classic symphonies from copyright entanglement . Museopen is looking to solve a difficult problem: while symphonies written by Beethoven, Brahms, Sibelius, and Tchaikovsky are in the public domain, many modern arrangements and sound recordings of those works are copyrighted. That means that even after purchasing...
EFF’s Cindy Cohn Win...
We’re pleased to announce that EFF’s Legal Director, Cindy Cohn , has won a 2010 Intellectual Property Institute Vanguard Award from the State Bar of California. Cindy was one of four legal professionals honored for spearheading new developments in the world of intellectual property
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EFF’s Cindy Cohn Wins IP Vanguard Award from State Bar of California
EFF Seeks to Help Righthav...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is seeking to assist defendants in the Righthaven copyright troll lawsuits. Righthaven, founded in March of 2010, files hundreds of copyright infringement lawsuits on behalf of newspaper publishers against bloggers who make use of news content without permission.
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EFF Seeks to Help Righthaven Defendants
Jury Invalidates One of EF...
Good news in the fight against bad software patents: a jury in the Eastern District of Texas recently found the Firepond/Polaris patent (U.S. Patent No.
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Jury Invalidates One of EFF’s ‘Most Wanted’ Patents
