The latest development in the RIAA's long-running filesharing shakedown campaign--demanding colleges and universities forward "pre-litigation" settlement offers to their students--has placed academic institutions in an untenable position. If they don't pass on the letters or even make them available to students, they are arguably harming those students by depriving them...

On behalf of MoveOn.org and Brave New Films, EFF and Stanford's Fair Use Project today filed a lawsuit against Viacom for improperly issuing a DMCA takedown notice to YouTube over "Stop the Falisiness," a humorous video built around clips from The Colbert Report. Viacom promptly responded in ...

Deutsche Telecom Ditches DRMMusicload, its European music download site says it is in negotiations to develop alternatives to copy restrictions because a whopping 75% of user complaints come from DRM! Lessig: "Make Way for Copyright Chaos"Is the judiciary taking too central a role in copyright law? The...

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) helps protect the public's right to know, and new legislation would provide some much-needed updates to this crucial law. One open government bill has already passed the House -- make sure a similar one passes in the Senate. H.R. 1309 and ...

The European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) meets today in Brussels to vote on the proposed EU Directive on Criminal Measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights. The proposed Directive requires the 27 EU Member States to impose criminal sanctions for all intentional infringements of Intellectual Property...

An article in the Guardian yesterday reported that the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI is using sophisticated technology from the U.S. as part of a campaign of kidnapping, torture, and even murder. At first, the target appeared to be radical Islamic groups (which is ironic, because the ISI was...

Line Noise, EFF's occasional podcast, is back with a new edition for Sunshine Week. David Sobel, EFF Senior Attorney and director of our FLAG project, talks about uncovering the secrets behind National Security Letters, government datamining, and exactly how big the FBI's file on the CIA is. You...