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Felten, et al., v. RIAA, et al.

Recording Industry Cannot Gag Computer Scientists The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) threatened security researchers from Princeton and Rice to stop them from publishing their study of a weak technological protection scheme for CDs called SDMI. EFF filed a lawsuit to protect the researchers' First Amendment right to publish...
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DVDCCA v Bunner and DVDCCA v Pavlovich

Code == Speech: Defending Publishers of DVD Descrambling Code The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD-CCA), a mouthpiece of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), sued dozens of people in venues across the country and around the world for publishing DeCSS, software code that decrypts the data on commercial DVDs...

CONSENT Policy Conference

CONSENT International Policy Conference: Perceptions, Privacy and Permissions:the role of consent in on-line services is the largest EU-supported multi-million Euro research project investigating consumer sentiment and privacy in on-line situations.
One of the key changes in societal trends and lifestyles witnessed over the past few years has been the...

Victory for Speech: Facebook To Allow Marijuana Reform Ads

Responding to Outreach by EFF and the ACLU of Northern California, Facebook Corrects Error and Affirms its Goal of Providing a Politically-Neutral Platform for Election Issues, Including Marijuana Reform
Last week, news outlets reported that Facebook was rejecting ads by advocacy groups working on marijuana policy reform. The...

Good News: Craigslist drops exclusive license to your posts

In a welcome course correction, craigslist has removed its short-lived provision that required users to grant it an exclusive license to--in other words granting them ownership of--every post. We were unhappily surprised to see this click-through demand, but are glad to see that craigslist has promptly removed it.
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