First Day of Defense Begins in the Trial of Thai Editor Chiranuch Premchaiporn
Jiew, courtesy Prachatai / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Update: Jiew's trial will resume on February 14, 2012.
Chiranuch Premchaiporn, more commonly known by her pseudonym, “Jiew,” is the director of one of Thailand’s most popular alternative news sites, Prachatai. EFF has been following Jiew’s work--and her...
A Trio of Post-Bilski Cases Fail to Clearly Define the Meaning of “Abstract”
When the Supreme Court decided Bilski, we lamented that the “Court regrettably failed to provide guidance in the future about business method patents.” Now we are faced with the result of that failure: a string of cases that leaves us scratching our heads and wondering what, if anything, Bilski...
Who's Looking Over Your Digital Shoulder? A Reader Privacy Quiz.
How the Protect IP Act Puts Artists and the Internet in Danger
Join MADCo member groups, friends, and allies to learn the most up to date information on the PROTECT IP Act and Copyright. Join the call Thursday, September 22nd @ 3:00 pm EST/12:00 PST
Hear from Sherwin Siy, Deputy Legal Director at Public Knowledge, Casey Rae-Hunter, Deputy Director of...
California Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Electronic Public Records Case
When a state government stores public property information in an electronic format, the format of its storage shouldn't change citizens' right to access the information, right? Well, wrong -- at least in California after a recent Court of Appeal decision. But, in an encouraging sign, on Wednesday, the California...
Appellate Court Sends Tenenbaum Case Back For Another Round
In a disappointing ruling, the First Circuit Court of Appeals today overturned a decision by a federal district court that had downsized damages in Sony v. Tenenbaum, a file-sharing case in which a jury originally ordered a college student to pay $675,000 for infringing copyrights in 30 songs....
No Authors Have Been Harmed in the Making of This Library
We’ve been puzzling over the Author’s Guild’s decision to sue several university libraries for participating in the digitization and storage of millions of works (largely in connection with the Google Books project) and making scans of some of those works available to the academic community. Simply put, it appears...
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Freedom Not Fear: Ending A Decade Long Legacy of International Privacy Erosion
This Saturday, September 17th, concerned European citizens with the Freedom not Fear movement have decided to take their protest to the capital of the European Union, Brussels. Their slogan: Stop the surveillance mania! For five years in a row, Freedom Not Fear has taken to the streets in several...
City Club of Cleveland Presents: Conference on Speech
EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn joins the first panel from 9:45-10:45 speaking on Free Speech in the Age of the Internet. The panel will explore ideas such as who owns and controls the online public forum, the relationship between speech and anonymity, the challenges of protecting free speech, the future...
