Today EFF submitted a letter to Senators Leahy and Specter calling their attention to a portion of the Draft Judiciary Committee Report of the Patent Reform Act of 2007 which has the potential to kill EFF's Patent Busting Project.The Report states that “Section 5 of the Act creates a...

This week, Senators finally cast their votes on amendments to the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). This is a critical week
for the privacy and civil liberties of all Americans — the amendments
are the last chance the Senate has to prevent handing the
Administration a...

This week, along with our co-counsel, EFF filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings asking a U.S. District Court judge to throw out a copyright infringement suit brought by talk show host Michael Savage against the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Savage sued CAIR in December, alleging that...

Can a rightsholder force an ISP to hand over a subscriber's identity in a civil copyright infringement lawsuit? In the U.S., the answer is a clear yes - as evidenced by the music industry's more than 20,000 lawsuits against alleged individual filesharers. In Spain (and perhaps other EU countries)...

Barracuda Networks Inc. today announced that it plans "to defend itself, the open source community and the free and open source Clam AntiVirus software from a patent by Trend Micro."The patent at issue in the litigation is U.S. Patent Number 5,623,600 and is directed generally to virus detection and...

When you type a word like "Chevrolet" into an Internet search engine, you aren't necessarily looking for the nearest dealership. You might be looking for independent information about Chevy's business practices, quality, compliance with emissions standards, or even information about how Chevrolets match up against their competitors. One of the...

Let's show our elected representatives that We the People
-- concerned American voters from across the country
-- oppose telecom immunity and want them to stop the spying.
Visit StopTheSpying.org for details on making photos and videos to drive the point home: no immunity for lawbreaking...