The Supreme Court’s refusal to review the Federal Circuit’s dangerous decision in Oracle v. Google means that court’s decision will stand for now. EFF, along with leading computer scientists and copyright practitioners, thinks the Federal Circuit got it wrong: the legal precedents that the Federal Circuit refused to follow,...

Padmapper and 3Taps ended their three-year legal fight with craigslist on Monday, agreeing to stop using classified ad data from craigslist on their own sites. 3Taps has also agreed to pay craigslist $1 million on the condition that craigslist donate the money to EFF. While we’re pleased...

UPDATE 06/30/2015: The hearing has been postponed and will proceed in October. Thanks to everyone who helped us raise awareness today.

"Access to knowledge is a global right."
These are the words of student Diego Gomez, who begins his trial in Colombia today, and...

Sadly, today the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the Federal Circuit’s dangerous decision in Oracle v. Google. Oracle claims a copyright on the Java Application Programming Interface (API), and that Google infringed that copyright by using certain Java APIs in the Android OS. The Federal...

Like all of the patents we highlight in our Stupid Patent of the Month series, this month’s winner, U.S. Patent No. 6,795,918, is a terrible patent. But it earns a special place in the Pantheon of stupid patents because it is being wielded in one of most outrageous trolling...

EFF has long condemned the Vietnamese government's crackdown on bloggers, including the imprisonment of high-profile blogger and activist Le Quoc Quan. Our support for freedom of expression in Vietnam has even earned us the attention of the Vietnamese government, which attempted to compromise our employees' computers by sending...

Colombian student Diego Gomez uploaded an academic paper to document-service Scribd a few years ago to share with his graduate school peers who, like him, studied biodiversity and amphibious animals.

When the author of the paper later found out about this, he decided to press criminal...

UPDATE: June 29, 2015
According to Iranian news sources, the Supreme Court reviewed Soheil Arabi's death sentence and decided to cancel it. While Arabi remains in prison, his successful challenge of the death penalty is cause for celebration.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and a number of...

Great news for open data advocates in California: Attorney General Kamala Harris' office has reversed a recent policy decision that would have locked down data collected by California Department of Justice (CADOJ).
Back in May, we wrote about how the CADOJ had denied our request for...