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Press Release | January 18, 2012

Facebook Ploy to Criminalize Add-On Service Hurts Users and Innovation

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a district court judge Tuesday to block Facebook's attempts to criminalize an add-on service that helped users aggregate all of their social networking data in one place.
Power Ventures created a web-based tool to let users view information from different...

Deeplinks Blog by Julie Samuels, Mitch Stoltz | January 18, 2012

The Internet at its Best

Today, we watch in awe as the Internet rallies to fight dangerous blacklist legislation, the PROTECT-IP Act in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House. The originality, creativity, and magnitude of action we’re seeing represents exactly what these bills would harm most: the value of...

Event | January 23, 2012

Senate Call-In Day to Stop PIPA ** POSTPONED***

POSTPONED!!!! The Internet blacklist legislation—known as PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House—invites Internet security risks, threatens online speech, and hampers Internet innovation. On Monday the 23rd, the Senate is back in session (and scheduled to vote on PIPA on January...
Event | January 26, 2012

theSummit on the Hill

theSummit on the Hill Thursday, January 26th, 8:30 PM - 2 AM Washington Hilton - TDL Bar 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20009 We are proud to announce Vegas 2.0's return to ShmooCon with a fundraiser for the Electronic Frontier Foundation! The same people who bring you theSummit, that...
Press Release | January 13, 2012

EFF Urges Court to Reject Baseless Righthaven Appeals

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed two briefs in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today in its ongoing battle to end copyright troll Righthaven LLC's litigation campaign.
Since its founding in January 2010, Righthaven has brought hundreds of copyright infringement lawsuits, even though it...

Legal Case

Righthaven v. CIO

Copyright troll Righthaven sued the Center for Intercultural Organizing for copyright infringement, but the case was dismissed in April 2001. The judge ruled that the non-profit organization’s use of the news article was a non-infringing fair use. Righthaven appealed, seeking to rewrite fair use law to vastly expand the scope...

Press Release | January 12, 2012

EFF Demands Withdrawal of Bogus Time Zone Database Lawsuit

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has demanded the withdrawal of a bogus copyright infringement lawsuit against the operators of a database of time zone information relied on by software engineers across the globe.
Last September, an astrology software company called Astrolabe filed the suit against Arthur...

Timezone
Legal Case

Astrolabe v. Olson

In September of 2011, an astrology software company called Astrolabe filed suit against Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert, researchers who coordinated the development of a time zone database.Software engineers around the world depend on the time zone database to make sure that time-stamps for email and other files work...

Press Release | January 12, 2012

Oregon Defamation Decision Could Chill Free Speech

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged an Oregon district court in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Wednesday to overturn a multi-million dollar defamation verdict against a blogger that could chill free speech.
In December, a jury found Montana blogger Crystal Cox liable for defaming Oregon lawyer David...

Deeplinks Blog by Parker Higgins | January 12, 2012

The Internet Goes to Washington on January 18

Security Experts and Tech Investors Scheduled to Testify; Worldwide Internet Protest Gathering
There’s some good news in the efforts to stop the Internet blacklist bills (SOPA/PIPA): Representative Darrell Issa, an outspoken SOPA critic and the author of alternative legislation called the OPEN Act, has announced that the Oversight and...

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