Lest anyone think we are the only ones who believe that MGM v. Grokster is critical for America's innovation sector, read the brief [PDF] filed by the National Venture Capital Association:

The [Supreme] Court's bright-line rule in Sony has been the midwife for the technological revolution...

EFF's own Fred von Lohmann has a monthly column at Law.com, and fortunately we have the freedom to publish these columns in their entirety here at the EFF website. This month's column is "Publius, RIP?" -- a look at why it's critically important to our society that we...

There are two laudable legislative efforts in the works that could help clarify that online journalists are entitled to the same rights and privileges as traditional print journalists.
The first is the national OPEN Government Act (S.394), introduced by Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) and co-sponsor Senator Pat Leahy...

So argues Susan Crawford in a post on the forthcoming oral arguments in ALA v. FCC -- that is, the legal challenge to the FCC's broadcast flag technology mandate (emphasis & hyperlinks, mine):

Did the FCC have jurisdiction to enter the broadcast flag order in November...

Back in the day, a tattoo artist quite rationally saw your tattoo as a free advertisement for his art. Not anymore. According to this AP story, the man who put a tattoo on the right arm of Pistons forward Rasheed Wallace is suing to stop Wallace from...

EFF Chairman Brad Templeton doesn't care much for football, but since he enjoys seeing the multi-million dollar commercials liberally interspersed with it, he held a reverse Superbowl party: fast forward through the game to watch the ads. To capture the show in high-definition and play it back around the house,...

In our first episode, Marvel sued NCSoft and Cryptic Studios, makers of the role-playing game "City of Heroes," claiming the game allowed users playing superheroes to infringe unspecified Marvel copyrights and trademarks. NCSoft filed a motion to dismiss the compaint.
Flip ahead to episode 3, Marvel's...