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Press Release | January 26, 2007

EFF Warns ABC to Back Off Blogger

Bogus Copyright Infringement Claims Violate Law San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warned ABC, Inc. Thursday not to pursue its bogus copyright infringement claims against 'Spocko' -- a blogger who sparked nationwide debate over a San Francisco radio station -- and asked the media giant to retract its...

Deeplinks Blog by Derek Slater | January 25, 2007

Record Labels: Licensing File Sharing Isn't So Crazy After All

Nearly three years ago, EFF published a paper advocating voluntary collective licensing for P2P, a system that would get artists paid and allow fans to keep sharing music however they like for a flat fee. It seems the major record labels may finally be coming around to this...

Deeplinks Blog by Hugh D'Andrade | January 23, 2007

Andy Griffith for Attorney General!

This YouTube clip from the Andy Griffith Show is the sort of civics lesson that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales would do well to study. Guilherme Roschke from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has some background (via BoingBoing): I shared the video with my colleagues here at...

Deeplinks Blog by Derek Slater | January 23, 2007

Action Alert: Tell Congress to Investigate the NSA Spying Program

Over five years since it first began, the NSA's massive domestic spying program remains shrouded in secrecy. Recently, the Bush Administration announced that it has let the shadowy FISA court review the program, but that's not enough -- the President must abide by the law and answer to the...

Deeplinks Blog by Derek Slater | January 23, 2007

Stanford Symposium, "Search and Seizure in the Digital Age," on January 26

On January 26th, Stanford Law School will host a symposium called "Beyond a Physical Conception of the Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure in the Digital Age." Six experts will present papers on a variety of privacy and technology issues, including RFIDs and protections for private information stored online...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | January 23, 2007

miniLinks for 2007-01-23

Andy Griffith Stands Up to Warrantless WiretappingMayberry's privacy rights more secure than the modern United States. How Do New NSA Spy Warrants Work? One Expert SpeculatesJim Dempsey tries to work out what it might mean. Your Privacy Law Role-CallAll the new privacy bills on their way to...

Deeplinks Blog by Derek Slater | January 23, 2007

HDCP, Screwing Fans in More Ways Than Ever

Ars Technica (via Tim Lee) explains some of the many ways that HDCP restrictions will break compatibility with your digital video devices. HDCP restricts connections to video displays through DVI (including HDMI) digital outputs, so that content can only be outputted to hobbled, DRM-restricted systems. You may have...

Deeplinks Blog by Hugh D'Andrade | January 23, 2007

Roll Call Op-Ed: E-Voting Transparency Needed Now

The Election Assistance Commission is charged with ensuring that our voting systems are reliable and secure. Each machine is "supposed" to be subjected to rigorous tests before being certified, and the EAC was recently empowered to oversee that process. At least that's the theory. As Aaron Burstein and Joseph Lorenzo...

Deeplinks Blog by Derek Slater | January 23, 2007

The Right Way to Respond to Parody

Last weekend, Darren Barefoot posted Get a First Life, a hysterical parody of virtual world Second Life's website. The creators of Second Life responded with a letter that is so right-thinking and clever that it would horrify the over-reaching copyright and trademark holders whose missives litter the archives of...

Deeplinks Blog by Derek Slater | January 22, 2007

More Signs of Music Download DRM Fading

Apparently, this year's MIDEM conference, the music industry's international trade show, took place in a parallel universe where the major record labels may be willing to ditch music download DRM. And this parallel universe may be coming to an online store near you in 2007. According to the International...

Deeplinks Blog by Derek Slater | January 19, 2007

Major Labels Block Zune Sharing of Certain Songs

Microsoft is trying to set its Zune media player apart from the iPod by showcasing its remarkably limited sharing feature. Many reviews have harped on how shared songs can only be played three times over three days. But the restrictions are actually even worse -- if you read the...

Deeplinks Blog by Gwen Hinze | January 19, 2007

Blogging the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty: Signal-Based Protection or Rights by Any Other Name?

The 183 member states of the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization are gathered in Geneva this week to discuss the controversial draft WIPO Broadcasting Treaty. EFF's main concern with the current treaty draft - shared by the other 40 public interest groups, companies and industry groups that have...

Deeplinks Blog by Corynne McSherry | January 18, 2007

Newspaper Publisher Tries to Thwart First Amendment

The Santa Barbara News-Press needs a lesson in the First Amendment. Insisting that an anonymous comment posted for a few hours on a news blog skewed a labor unionization vote, the publisher of the newspaper is demanding that Google disclose the blogger's account information. It all started last September...

Deeplinks Blog by Fred von Lohmann | January 18, 2007

Update on Eli Lilly Zyprexa Documents Fight

EFF was back in court January 16-17 defending the right of an anonymous wiki contributor to post links to important internal Eli Lilly documents about its biggest-selling drug, Zyprexa. After hearing two days of testimony from those involved (and not involved) with the disclosure of the Lilly documents...

Deeplinks Blog by Derek Slater | January 16, 2007

A DMCA Takedown Tale With a Twist

Time and again, we've seen the DMCA takedown process abused to censor legitimate speech. It's not everyday that one of these stories ends with a quote like this: "I would like to make it clear that I regret filing DMCA claims in this case, because the real...

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EFF Warns ABC to Back Off Blogger

Record Labels: Licensing File Sharing Isn't So Crazy After All

Andy Griffith for Attorney General!

Action Alert: Tell Congress to Investigate the NSA Spying Program

Stanford Symposium, "Search and Seizure in the Digital Age," on January 26

miniLinks for 2007-01-23

HDCP, Screwing Fans in More Ways Than Ever

Roll Call Op-Ed: E-Voting Transparency Needed Now

The Right Way to Respond to Parody

More Signs of Music Download DRM Fading

Major Labels Block Zune Sharing of Certain Songs

Blogging the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty: Signal-Based Protection or Rights by Any Other Name?

Newspaper Publisher Tries to Thwart First Amendment

Update on Eli Lilly Zyprexa Documents Fight

A DMCA Takedown Tale With a Twist

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