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DMCA Anti-Circumvention Hearings - Open to Public

On Thursday, May 17th, in Los Angeles, EFF Senior Staff Attorney Marcia Hofmann will testify about why it's important to clarify the legality of jailbreaking smart phones, tablets, and videogame consoles. At the same hearing in Los Angeles, EFF Intellectual Property Director Corynne McSherry will testify to why artists and...

EFF's 5th Cyberlaw Pub Trivia Night

On June 19, tech attorneys from throughout the Bay Area will gather at 330 Ritch to drink beer, eat chicken and waffles, and prove their prowess in summoning obscure tech law minutiae from the very depths of their oversized brains. In a friendly yet fierce battle of the minds, they’ll...

Geek Reading: The Broken E-Voting System with Barbara Simons

“The way we run our voting system in this country is really a scandal,” author Barbara Simons told EFF recently. “And it’s a scandal that no one talks about.” Lots of people will be talking about it at EFF’s upcoming Geek Reading, though, and you’re invited to join in...
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Global Network Initiative Gets an Inside Look at Tech Firms’ Human Rights Practices

On April 18, the Global Network Initiative (GNI) released its annual report documenting third-party assessments conducted in 2011 and 2012 for GNI’s three founding corporate participants: Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft. GNI was formed to bring major Internet companies together with human rights organizations to improve practices around human rights, privacy...

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The 2012 DMCA Rulemaking: A Primer

Every three years the U.S. Copyright Office considers granting exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s prohibition against circumventing measures that control access to digital copyrighted works. The first hearing in the 2012 DMCA rulemaking proceeding is set for this Friday, May 11, and we thought folks might want to...

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