All EFF's Legal Cases
Trademark law at its heart is intended to protect consumers from confusion -- for example by...
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EFF's comments to the Copyright Office on the topic of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA...
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In 2003 EFF applied for four exemptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) asking the...
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EFF did not file for DMCA exemption requests in 2006. Instead we explained why the rule-making...
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In the 2009 rulemaking EFF won three critical exemptions protecting the important work of video...
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibits "circumventing" digital rights management (DRM) and...
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) limits the circumvention of software that's designed to...
In this case, the Internet Archive pushed back against a formerly secret national security letter (...
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Most people assume that consumers have a fair use right to time shift television to watch at a...
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In recent years, we’ve experienced an explosion of litigation surrounding § 101 of the Patent Act....
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EFF has asked judges in Washington D.C. to quash subpoenas issued in predatory lawsuits aimed at...
In June 2013, The Guardian published a classified document leaked by former intelligence contractor...
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In Oct. 1998 Congress passed and President Clinton signed into law a new "sequel" to the...
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Lexmark one of the largest makers of laser printers is a believer in the "give away the razors but...
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In this case, EFF backed Internet service providers (ISPs) in an effort to quash subpoenas issued...
In October 2013, NY State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued a sweeping subpoena seeking...
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This case alleges alleges that the Bush Administration illegally targeted the leaders of an Islamic...
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American Library Association v. Federal Communications Commission
In a unanimous decision the D.C....
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EFF filed an amicus in support of a John Doe who was denied attorneys fees under the California...
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EFF urged a federal judge to protect fair use of news coverage and reject the Associated Press’ (AP...
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In this case, the US government is demanding Apple bypass the lock screen of a seized iPhone under...
A U.S. federal magistrate judge has ordered Apple to break the security of an iPhone as part of the...
In May 2006 a California state appeals court ruled in favor of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's...
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In Arista v. Lime Wire the recording industry plaintiffs seek to hold Lime Wire liable for acts of...
In September of 2011, an astrology software company called Astrolabe filed suit against Arthur...
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EFF filed an amicus brief in Atlantic v. Howell an Arizona lawsuit brought as part of the RIAA's...
In 2002, EFF fought for open, transparent governance of the domain name system.
Karl Auerbach began...
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Note: There are two parts for the case page for Authors Guild v. Google. Part I discusses the...
Note: There are two parts for the case page for Authors Guild v. Google. Part I discusses the...
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Background of the HathiTrust
As an offshoot of the Google Books Search project, the HathiTrust was...
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EFF and the ACLU of Southern California each sent California Public Records Act requests to the Los...
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On February 6, 2008, Swiss bank Julius Baer filed suit in federal district court against "Wikileaks...
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EFF the Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) and Public Citizen have urged the U.S. Court of Appeals...
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(Formerly Barrett v. Clark)
UPDATE: On November 20 2006 the California Supreme Court reversed the...
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On May 1 2008 EFF and the law firm of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton filed a motion to...
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While a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, Bernstein completed the...
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The Supreme Court's ruling in Sony v. Universal Studios (aka the Betamax case) is a landmark...
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At issue in this case was whether three software programmers who created the BnetD game server --...
Blue Spike v. Audible Magic is a patent case in which EFF intervened in order to achieve greater...
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EFF supported Viacom in a lawsuit over a parody of a popular online video called “What What (In the...
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Directory of information on Netherlands entertainment industry organizations' suit against Kazaa (a...
In Bunnell v. Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) EFF filed a brief with the 9th U.S....
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On June 29 2006 EFF filed to block an Oklahoma school superintendent's attempt to unmask the...
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Police shouldn’t be able to get your sensitive location data – information that can reveal your...
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The California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA), S.B. 178, requires state law...
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On August 10 2006 EFF along with the American Association of Law Libraries the ACLU and Public...
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The filesharing case of Capitol Records v. Thomas-Rasset has a long, convoluted history. In October...
EFF and a coalition of advocacy groups have asked a federal appeals court to block record labels’...
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EFF joined with attorney Venkat Balasubramani of the law firm Focal PLLC to represent The Oatmeal...
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This case is brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of lawyers and others...
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EFF and Davis Wright Tremaine LLP are defending the Yes Men and other activists in a lawsuit filed...
This is a mind-bogglingly absurd case involving circumvention in which Chamberlain Group - which...
EFF and EarthRights International (ERI) are fighting to quash subpoenas issued by Chevron...
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On February 1 2007 EFF warned the Chicago Auto Show to back off attempts to muzzle protestors who...
EFF filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court arguing that individuals should be able to bring so-...
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EFF urged the United States Supreme Court to ensure that modern communications methods such as text...
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EFF has urged a Washington State judge to dismiss "cyberstalking" charges stemming from rude...
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In this case, EFF wrote an amicus brief in support of Chris Korpi, who was sued by Julie Collier...
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(aka Movies Studios v. TorrentSpy)
In this copyright infringement case the district court issued a...
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EFF the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)...
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EFF filed an amicus brief with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, asking it to rule police...
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EFF filed an amicus brief with the ACLU of Massachusetts asking the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial...
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EFF urged the high court of Massachusetts to protect the rights of passengers in cars that law...
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At the end of 2015, the United States Copyright Office announced a Notice of Inquiry and a public...
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On June 20 2006 EFF filed an amicus brief arguing that a battle between Internet real estate...
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EFF and a coalition of public interest groups and law professors have asked a California appeals...
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EFF filed an amicus brief in this case, arguing that the government cannot require Americans to go...
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EFF has urged a federal court to dismiss a politically motivated copyright lawsuit. The case...
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Without proper implementation by state officials even the best e-voting laws are ineffective. In...
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EFF filed suit on November 1 2007 against the man behind "craigslist-perverts.org" -- a website...
EFF has urged a federal judge to reject arguments from Warner Brothers Entertainment claiming that...
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In the digital age, repressive governments do not act alone to violate human rights. They have...
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EFF handled this leading case with the ACLU of Washington State. In it a federal district court in...
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The Delaware Supreme Court has protected the identity of a blogger in the case of Doe v. Cahill...
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The ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC) and EFF filed a federal class-action lawsuit to block...
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Defending free speech and privacy EFF has helped the ACLU and an unnamed Internet service provider...
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EFF has urged a federal appeals court to block administrative subpoenas from the Securities and...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a judge in Illinois to reject a Petition to identify...
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EFF urged a Pennsylvania court to dismiss defamation claims against the controversial website...
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The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD-CCA) sued dozens of unnamed individuals who live around the...
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John Doe is an anonymous poster to two Internet message boards who made two statements critical of...
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In this case EFF helped convince the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate a dangerous patent law...
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EFF has asked a federal court to reject efforts by Echostar to get the names and addresses of every...
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EFF has asked a judge today to block a reality TV star’s attempts to censor critical comments about...
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EFF filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act in 2014 to get access to the government's...
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Podcasting is under threat from a patent troll known as Personal Audio LLC. So far, Personal Audio...
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EFF filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC...
The man who claims to have created "The Electric Slide" agreed to call off his online takedown...
This is one of the thousands of cases filed by RIAA member companies against individuals for P2P...
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This is one of the thousands of cases filed by RIAA member companies against individuals for P2P...
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EFF is defending the First Amendment rights of a citizen-journalist to link from a public "wiki" to...
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EFF is urging a federal judge to quickly resolve a dispute over the use of the term “Mormon” in an...
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Anthony Elonis was convicted of making interstate threats on the basis of violent posts published...
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EFF filed a motion to block a brazen attempt to unmask the identities of anonymous members of an...
In a legal battle over Internet music storage that could impact innovation and free expression on...
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EFF has urged a San Francisco federal court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss...
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Freedom of speech should not be sacrificed in the recording industry's war to restrict the public...
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EFF joined the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation and the ACLU Foundation of Texas in...
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John Doe is an anonymous poster on an internet message board who made some statements critical of...
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Twenty-two organizations including Unitarian church groups, gun ownership advocates, and a broad...
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EFF has asked an Illinois Circuit Court judge to quash subpoenas aimed at outing opponents of a...
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This is one of the thousands of cases filed by RIAA member companies against individuals for P2P...
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In this case, Fox News sued a company called TVEyes, claiming the company’s text-searchable...
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EFF urged a federal appeals court to protect the rights of start-up innovators working to improve...
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EFF Sues Barney to Defend Online Free Speech
Barney the purple dinosaur may teach kids a lot about...
EFF has filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging a federal court judge to block two criminal...
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"Technical standards incorporated into law are some of the most important rules of our modern...
EFF and the California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC) asked a California appeals court to...
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Garcia v. Google, Inc. is a copyright case in which the Ninth Circuit has ordered Google to remove...
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EFF, together with Durie Tangri LLP, is defending a photo hobbyist against an outrageous patent...
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On December 22 2008 GateHouse Media sued the New York Times alleging that the "hyper-local" news...
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In an amicus brief filed in June 2011 on behalf a coalition of libraries and other digital...
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Google v Equustek involves a legal challenge to an extraterritorial order from a Canadian court....
A high-profile battle over whether Google must respond to an unusual and dangerous subpoena raises...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union represent Birgitta...
Green v. Department of Justice is an EFF lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Digital...
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For almost 10 years, federal and local law enforcement agencies across the country have engaged in...
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In Hepting v. AT&T, EFF sued the telecommunications giant on behalf of its customers for...
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EFF has served a motion to quash dragnet subpoenas that put privacy and anonymity at risk for the...
Human Rights Watch, a nonpartisan organization that fights human rights abuses across the globe,...
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In this case movie directors and studios sought to invade your living room and control how you...
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In Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International Inc., printer company Lexmark sold printer...
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In May 2011, EFF partnered with the ACLU and the ACLU of Vermont to urge the Vermont Supreme Court...
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EFF along with Google and numerous other public interest organizations and Internet industry...
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In re Bilski (captioned Bilski v. Kappos at the Supreme Court) is an appellate court case dealing...
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This is the second of three active EFF legal challenges to the FBI's NSL authority. Links to the...
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This is the third active EFF legal challenge to the FBI's NSL authority. Links to the related NSL...
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When the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco applied for an order to obtain historical cell...
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A federal magistrate judge in San Jose, California denied a government request for historical cell...
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EFF is supporting Microsoft's challenge to a search warrant ordering it to disclose the contents of...
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A Boston College computer science student has asked a Massachusetts court to quash an invalid...
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This is the first of three active EFF legal challenges to the FBI's NSL authority. Links to the...
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EFF urged a federal appeals court to allow the live webcasting of a hearing in one of the thousands...
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Dajaz1.com, a website dedicated to hip hop music and culture, was seized by the Immigrations and...
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Updated August 2005
» EFF press release about unsealed documents Aug 2 2005
On October 7 2004 more...
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Email Is Free Speech, Not Trespass
When former Intel employee Ken Hamidi sent email messages to...
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No. 07-6346-CW (N.D. Cal)
FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional NSL Served on the Internet Archive In...
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The Internet Archive has filed a new legal challenge against a New Jersey state law -- N.J. P.L. c...
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After a challenge by the Internet Archive and EFF, Washington state officials dropped their defense...
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) should pay for a single mom's two-year legal...
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IP-Watch, a non-profit independent news site, is suing the United States Trade Representative to...
This case involved a trademark spat between two competing websites that provided tax consulting...
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In Jewel v. NSA, EFF is suing the NSA and other government agencies on behalf of AT&T...
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In June 2004 JibJab creators of the fantastically popular "This Land" animated parody lampooning...
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EFF and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of the National Capital Area asked a Washington D...
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EFF and Public Citizen joined by Public Knowledge and Citizen Media Law Project have urged a...
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Junger sought an injunction against the enforcement of provisions of the International Traffic in...
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Online news publisher Respublika asked a federal judge in New York to clarify that officials in...
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Ditto.com (formerly known as Arriba Soft) was an early image search engine similar to Google's...
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An American citizen living in Maryland has sued the Ethiopian government for infecting his computer...
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Larry Klayman, conservative activist and founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, was among the...
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Teleflex Inc. sued the defendant KSR International, claiming that one of KSR's products infringed...
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Background
In 2004 a documentary film about the activities of Landmark Education also known as the...
EFF defended a target of a recording industry lawsuit filing a brief in a New York district court...
EFF urged the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in an amicus brief to rule an email provider could...
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In a case that proves no one is safe from over-zealous copyright enforcement, EFF is helping...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG...
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In this case, several businesses filed suit against Yelp, claiming that the popular review site...
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Printer maker Lexmark sued chipmaker Static Control Components (SCC). SCC produced replacement...
EFF is urging a federal judge to reject a porn troll’s ploy to make a Wi-Fi provider responsible...
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EFF and the ACLU of Northern California filed suit in federal court on January 14, 2009 to protect...
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In 2005, Macrovision sued Sima to block the sale of the Sima CopyThis! (CT-1, CT-Q1, CT-100, CT-2,...
EFF Calls For Court Sanctions For Copyright Troll's Public Humiliation Tactic
EFF fought...
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On June 13, 2007, the New Jersey Township of Manalapan filed a malpractice suit against its former...
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We filed an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to restrict the release of...
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Marvel is suing NCSoft and Cryptic makers of the massively popular multiplayer online game "City of...
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In Maryland v. King, EFF urged the Supreme Court to block blanket DNA collection from anyone...
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Three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were ordered by a federal court...
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June 27 2005
EFF has filed a lawsuit against French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis Group on...
EFF formally requested the preservation of the data seized when the U.S. government shut down...
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A case brought in a US district court by a Utah man threatens to undermine the First Amendment...
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EFF defended StreamCast Networks the company behind the Morpheus peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing...
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On September 21, 2010, Mick Haig Productions -- producer of the adult film Der Gute Onkel -- filed...
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Microsoft sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) in April 2016 challenging portions of the Electronic...
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In this case the Supreme Court rejected efforts by EFF, Microsoft and others to make it easier to...
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Can the government force people who are arrested – but not yet convicted of a crime – to give a DNA...
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Software development company seeks identity of John Doe who obtained email initially sent by...
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EFF and Stanford Law School's Fair Use Project (FUP) asked a federal court on March 22 2007 to...
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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced that the major Hollywood motion picture...
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EFF helped online public records platform MuckRock successfully defend three lawsuits filed against...
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Complaint filed in an Ohio lawsuit against Anonymizer.com (a provider of anonymous Internet service...
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Directory of info on the legal disputes surrounding the Napster peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing...
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EFF urged the United States Supreme Court to uphold an appeals court decision that blocks invasive...
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We can and should implement accessible easier-to-use voting technologies without sacrificing...
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EFF has teamed up with the ACLU, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), and Public Citizen and...
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"Digital Betamax": Replay TV Owners Stand Up to Hollywood to Defend Digital VCRs
View Newmark v....
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Nitke et. al. v. Ashcroft challenges the obscenity provisions in the Communications Decency Act (...
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This page collects pleadings and other information from the multi-district litigation that apply...
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These six cases were brought by the federal government against various state administrators to...
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EFF has urged an Oregon district court in a friend-of-the-court brief to overturn a multi-million...
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EFF filed suit against Apple Inc. to defend the First Amendment rights of an operator of a...
EFF helped protect online speakers by bringing the first successful suit against abusive copyright...
EFF asked an Illinois judge to quash subpoenas issued in a "reverse class action" lawsuit accusing...
At issue in Oracle v. Google is whether Oracle can claim a copyright on Java APIs and, if so,...
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Nascimento worked as a cashier at the deli counter of a convenience store which had a lottery...
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EFF urged the Oregon Supreme Court to block warrantless searches of arrestees' cell phones arguing...
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Californians who’ve merely been arrested and not charged, much less convicted of a crime, have a...
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Adult entertainment publisher Perfect 10 sued Google's Image Search service arguing that Google...
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EFF has teamed up with the law firm of Winston & Strawn to represent Kelly Coyne and Erik...
A group of Reddit “gaymers” fought back with EFF's help to protect the name of their online forum...
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In the U.S., two copyrights generally exist for every song you hear on the radio or online. One...
EFF represents the owners of the blogs Die Troll Die (dietrolldie.com) and Fight Copyright Trolls (...
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EFF urged a federal court to return two domain names seized in the U.S. government's fundamentally...
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In Quanta v. LG Electronics, the Supreme Court has been asked to reaffirm the patent exhaustion...
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Police obtained 67 days worth of location information, detailing more than 11,000 specific cell...
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EFF has filed suit in federal court to block threats aimed at LawyerRatingz.com, a website that...
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Should police should be allowed to collect and analyze “inadvertently shed” DNA without a warrant...
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The California Reader Privacy Act (SB 602) passed in October 2011 and will be going into effect on...
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In September 2008, the motion picture industry sued RealNetworks over its RealDVD software, which...
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EFF and attorney Bryan Vroon have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to reexamine...
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On December 8 2006 EFF and Professor Deirdre Mulligan and Jack Lerner requested the depublication...
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The RIAA sought to force the Missouri ISP Charter Communications to turn over the identities of its...
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Copyright troll Righthaven sued the Center for Intercultural Organizing for copyright infringement...
Democratic Underground -- represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Fenwick &...
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A criminal justice blog that provides resources for difficult-to-prosecute murder cases is...
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Righthaven v. Wolf is the lead case of over fifty lawsuits filed by Righthaven LLC in the District...
EFF and the Center for Democracy and Technology ("CDT") have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to crack...
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Jeremy Rubin, a 19 year old MIT student in Massachusetts, developed a computer program called...
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EFF has urged a California state court to suppress evidence gathered by law enforcement from a...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is fighting back against Uri Geller -- the "paranormalist...
EFF and a coalition of voting integrity groups representing Sarasota County voters filed suit in...
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In December of 2007, radio talk show host Michael Savage filed suit in federal district court...
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California State Senator Mark Leno has introduced important new legislation that protects email...
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EFF and The Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF) have urged the United States Supreme Court to...
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On May 26, 2015, Atlanta-based attorney Scott A. Horstemeyer sued the Electronic Frontier...
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EFF asked a federal court to protect the free speech rights of an animal welfare group after its...
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Shubert v. Obama is a class action on behalf of all Americans against the government, alleging a...
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The bipartisan Innovation Act is the best bill yet when it comes to fighting patent trolls. To...
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In Smith, EFF, along with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the American Civil...
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On June 1, 2006, the Eleventh Circuit's issued a decision in Snow v. DirecTV and preserved the...
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On June 1 2006 the Eleventh Circuit's issued a decision in Snow v. DirecTV and preserved the legal...
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FAQ on the Sony BMG settlement Click here for a guide to spotting CDs affected by XCP and MediaMax...
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EFF have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to focus on the privacy issues at stake in a battle over the...
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EFF warned ABC not to pursue its bogus copyright infringement claims against 'Spocko' -- a blogger...
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State of Maryland v. Andrews is the first case in the country (that we know of) where an appellate...
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Along with EFF-Austin, the Texas Civil Rights Project and the ACLU of Texas, EFF urged the Texas...
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EFF submitted an amicus brief to the Rhode Island Supreme Court, arguing that people have an...
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On March 1 1990 the offices of Steve Jackson Games in Austin Texas were raided by the U.S. Secret...
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EFF and the Media Freedom and Information Access Practicum (MFIA) at Yale Law School a friend-of-...
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The DMCA has increasingly been used to stymie competition rather than fight "piracy." This case is...
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TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods is a case that effectively asks the court to decide whether patent...
In December 2014, the FBI received a tip from a foreign law enforcement agency that a Tor Hidden...
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EFF along with Public Citizen and Public Knowledge are urging a U.S. court of appeals to reject...
EFF is representing Jason Cugle and his company Triple7Vaping.com LLC against claims that running a...
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Two companies who must remain anonymous about their fight against secret government demands for...
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EFF and the ACLU filed an amicus brief in U.S. Telecom Association v. FCC, a lawsuit by...
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The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found a Florida man’s constitutional rights were violated...
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The Milwaukee Police Department secretly used a Stingray to locate defendant Patrick through his...
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The "first sale" doctrine expresses one of the most important limitations on the reach of copyright...
Like many other companies that host content on behalf of users, video-hosting service Veoh has been...
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Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer was convicted of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA") in...
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EFF has filed three separate amicus briefs in this criminal case, explaining why the government’s...
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Army officials were investigating a contractor for theft and other misconduct arising from Army...
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New York City police officer Gilberto Valle was criminally charged in New York federal court in...
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Defendant Aaron Graham was suspected in a series of armed robberies around Baltimore. Without a...
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The case arises out of Matthew Keys turning over the username and password of the content...
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Military investigators with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service ("NCIS") launched an...
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UPDATE: Mr. Saboonchi was released from prison in January 2016 as part of President Obama's...
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In this criminal case, the government installed a pole camera overlooking a defendant's front yard...
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EFF sued the DOJ and FBI to shine light on the U.S. Marshal Service’s (USMS) use of small aircraft...
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On April 21st, the Ninth Circuit held in United States v. Arnold that the Fourth Amendment does not...
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EFF has urged a federal court to reject bogus copyright claims in a ringtone royalty battle that...
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A federal district court judge in Maryland has blocked the government's use of a federal anti-...
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EFF and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers asked a federal appeals court to block...
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The defendant in the case Bradford Councilman is a bookseller who offered email service to his...
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The defendant Lori Drew was charged with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) by using...
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View U.S. v. ElcomSoft Sklyarov frequently asked questions.
Dmitry Sklyarov the 27 year old Russian...
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EFF urged a federal district court in Colorado to block the government's attempt to force a woman...
In January 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously confirmed that Americans have constitutional...
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Together with the ACLU and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, EFF filed an...
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EFF and a coalition of academics and public policy groups are urging a federal judge to dismiss a...
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The forced collection of DNA samples from arrestees without search warrants violates their Fourth...
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EFF filed an amicus brief in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Ricky Wahchumwah,...
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In August of 2009, Pennyslvania-based company USA Technologies filed a federal lawsuit against two...
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Can the government track your cell phone's location without probable cause?
Is the government...
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This page provides resources to assist those sued by the U.S. Copyright Group aka SaveCinema.org...
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EFF represented Savitri Durkee, an activist concerned with preserving the character of New York...
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These cases, handled by the courts along with Hepting v. AT&T, included a consolidated class...
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This case tests whether the "first sale doctrine" in copyright law -- which makes it legal to...
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In March 2007, Viacom sued YouTube and Google, alleging that they should be held responsible for...
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In October 2002 credit card giant Visa convinced a Las Vegas federal court to prevent a small...
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EFF and other civil liberties groups filed an amicus brief in Warshak v. United States urging the...
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Update On 6/18/07: Sixth Circuit issues opinion upholding district court's injunction against...
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EFF urged the Washington State Supreme Court to recognize that text messages are “the 21st Century...
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In a big victory in the fight against copyright trolls a judge in West Virginia has blocked an...
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A federal lawsuit filed by EFF in Ohio offers an unprecedented opportunity to expose and help fix...
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A challenge to the NSA’s warrantless Internet backbone surveillance (aka “Upstream” surveillance)...
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Aereo was a company that let users watch local channels by renting their own small antenna located...
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