Our Last Stand Against Undemocratic International Agreements That Ratchet up Term Lengths and Devastate the Public Domain

Few arguments around copyright are as self-evidently fact-free as the length of its term. Defying economic reasoning, the astonishingly long period of restrictions has only grown over the years,...

EFF has long advocated for greater vigilance over the potential sale of specially-developed surveillance tools to oppressive regimes that use technology to commit human rights abuses. We want those countries to be held legally accountable for such conduct, and have rallied tech companies to...

Have you recently received a patent demand letter or been hit by a lawsuit from either “Shipping and Transit, LLC” or “Electronic Communication Technologies, LLC”? Despite their current SEO-unfriendly names that make it difficult to find information, we want you to know that there’s lots of information out there related...

UPDATE: The Lideta Federal High Court today rejected evidence submitted by Zelalem and his colleagues and postponed a verdict in their case until August 21. The defendants had to appear in court without legal representation, since their lawyer had his license revoked by the Ministry of Justice last week. The...

Thank you to those who celebrated with us at EFF's 25th anniversary party and minicon! It was a lovely day full of remembering the important fights of the past 25 years and planning how to face the threats of the next 25. Both the minicon and the party were...

Back in the fall of 2011, some undergraduates at Yale created a cool class project. As part of their law and technology class, Bay Gross and Charlie Croom built a website and game that allowed Facebook users to discover how many of their “friends” they really know....

We’ve seen an all-out assault on the side of the opposition to kill the House’s Innovation Act and the Senate’s PATENT Act. As a result, patent reform stands on shaky ground in Congress.
A common trend has emerged in the anti-reform camp’s rhetoric, though: lies, fabrications, and...