EFF’s “Teach Copyright” Class Counters Entertainment Industry Misinformation
Gives students the real facts about their digital rights and responsibilities to fight against the entertainment industry’s intimidation curriculum that frightens students into believing that making copies is wrong.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently launched the “Teach Copyright” campaign to provide a more balanced copyright curriculum that encourages students to make full and fair use [...]
Is the DMCA Coming Down Under? New Copyright Bill on Fast-Track in Australia
As a result of a Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the U.S. that came into force in 2005, Australia is required to rewrite its current, relatively flexible, technological protection measure law by 1 January 2007, to make it more like the DMCA. A serious policy debate on how to frame a DRM law that [...]
Feds dip their snouts back in EFF vs. AT&T wiretap case
Surprise, surprise. The US government has asked a California court to take a second look at a recent decision that allowed the EFF’s wiretap case to proceed against AT&T.
The government has already tried once before to meddle with the EFF’s case against AT&T. It had an earlier attempt to dismiss the EFF case shut down [...]
Google-porn site battle puts Internet freedoms in balance
Key Internet freedoms are under threat in a legal battle between online search leader Google and pornography publisher Perfect 10, a prominent Internet rights foundation said.
At issue in the landmark case being appealed to the San Francisco circuit court of appeals is whether Google infringed on copyrights by creating links to Perfect 10 pictures copied [...]
RIAA accused of “reign of terror”
THE ELECTRONIC Frontier Foundation (EFF) has slammed the Recording Industry of America’s legal tactics for fighting pirates and accused it of conducting a “reign of terror” against the defenceless.
Ray Beckerman, a lawyer with the EFF, and the law firm of Vandenberg & Feliu in New Yor,k said that typical tactics being used by the RIAA [...]
Digital Copyright Battle Puts Linking at Risk
EFF and Libraries Support Google Image Search Against Adult Website.
San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of library organizations filed a brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Thursday supporting Google Image Search in a showdown over critical digital copyright issues.
Adult entertainment publisher Perfect 10 claims [...]
EFF Asks the Entertainment Industry to “Keep it Real”
In an effort to combat the incessant waves of talking points and media spin that invariably cloud the issues of file-sharing and intellectual property rights, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has compiled a list of sample questions to pose to the entertainment industry representatives.
“Asking hard questions is a way of ‘keeping honest people honest’ and [...]
How the Entertainment Lobbies are Destroying Your Rights (Video)
The EFF has put out a hilarious (scary?) new video showing what might happen in the future if the entertainment lobbies are successful. The time to act is now, support the EFF!
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EFF v MPAA : Ringside Seats!
Motion Picture Association President Dan Glickman locks horns with Electronic Frontier Foundation’s John Perry Barlow over big media’s war with the internet.
“These are aging industries run by aging men, and they’re up against 17-year-olds who have turned themselves into electronic Hezbollah because they resent the content industry for its proprietary practices. And I don’t have [...]
