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Decision in Nitke Case Leaves Web Publishers at Risk

Posting sexually explicit images on the Internet just got a lot more dangerous. On Monday, a vague, overbroad law that leaves millions of people vulnerable to prosecution for online obscenity was allowed to stand.
A three-judge panel in the Southern District of New York handed down the long-awaited...

Equal Opportunity IP

When word got out recently that a trademark application for the San Francisco-based nonprofit group Dykes on Bikes was rejected, EFF did some further research into the grounds for rejection.
It turns out that despite the more than 400 pages of scholarship submitted in support of the application,...

TSA Continues Secure Flight Deception

Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reaffirmed [PDF] in a letter to Congress that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) violated the Privacy Act, lying to the public about collecting and using private data in testing Secure Flight. The letter also reveals that the TSA collected over 100...

EFF15: My Conversion Moment

(As part of the EFF15 Blog-a-thon, some EFF staff and interns will be posting stories explaining their personal connection to online freedom. For more posts in this series, click here. )It was February 1994, and I was reading what was then the ninth issue that WIRED magazine had...

Blogging WIPO: Third Development Agenda Meeting Ends Without Consensus

For the last year, a group of developing nations, scholars, and public interest groups has been asking the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) -- the U.N. agency responsible for intellectual property rights treaties -- to change the way it works, to better represent the interests of all of its members....

Remedying Grokster

As we come up on the one-month anniversary of MGM v. Grokster, I've collected my thoughts for Law.com about why the decision is bad news for innovators and what Congress should do about it. I've reproduced it below. See also EFF's "Interpreting Grokster" one-pager submitted to the...

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Is Your Printer Spying On You?

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Imagine that every time you printed a document, it automatically included a secret code that could be used to identify the printer -- and potentially, the person who used it. Sounds like something from an episode of "Alias," right?
Unfortunately, the scenario ...

Reading the Tea Leaves on John Roberts

Given the ongoing legal struggles to preserve digital freedom, it is difficult to underestimate the importance of carefully vetting President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, Judge John G. Roberts. If confirmed, Judge Roberts will have extraordinary power to shape the future of digital rights, for good or ill. Unfortunately, Judge...

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