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Trademark law at its heart is intended to protect consumers from confusion -- for example by preventing Pepsi from passing off its cola as Coca-Cola...
EFF's comments to the Copyright Office on the topic of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and its anti-circumvention
provisions. February...
In 2003 EFF applied for four exemptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) asking the Copyright Office to allow consumers to:Play copy-...
EFF did not file for DMCA exemption requests in 2006. Instead we explained why the rule-making process is fundamentally broken and unable to protect...
In the 2009 rulemaking EFF won three critical exemptions protecting the important work of video remix artists iPhone owners and cell phone recyclers...
Most people assume that consumers have a fair use right to time shift television to watch at a later time. As a result lots of companies now sell...
EFF has asked judges in Washington D.C. to quash subpoenas issued in predatory lawsuits aimed at movie downloaders arguing in friend-of-the court...
In Oct. 1998 Congress passed and President Clinton signed into law a new "sequel" to the unconstitutional Communications Decency Act. This new...
Lexmark one of the largest makers of laser printers is a believer in the "give away the razors but charge them for the blades" tactic counting on the...
This case alleges alleges that the Bush Administration illegally targeted the leaders of an Islamic charity and their lawyers for warrantless...
American Library Association v. Federal Communications Commission
In a unanimous decision the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the broadcast...
In a unanimous decision the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the broadcast...
EFF filed an amicus in support of a John Doe who was denied attorneys fees under the California SLAPP law. The case was handled by the Stanford...
In May 2006 a California state appeals court ruled in favor of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's petition on behalf of three online journalists...
In Arista v. Lime Wire the recording industry plaintiffs seek to hold Lime Wire liable for acts of copyright infringement by users of its software....
EFF filed an amicus brief in Atlantic v. Howell an Arizona lawsuit brought as part of the RIAA's national campaign against individuals for file-...
Note: There are two parts for the case page for Authors Guild v. Google. Part I discusses the proposed class action settlement. Part II discusses...
On February 6, 2008, Swiss bank Julius Baer filed suit in federal district court against "Wikileaks" -- a website designed to give whistleblowers a...
EFF the Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) and Public Citizen have urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to consider the critical...
(Formerly Barrett v. Clark)
UPDATE: On November 20 2006 the California Supreme Court reversed the dangerous Court of Appeals ruling in the...
UPDATE: On November 20 2006 the California Supreme Court reversed the dangerous Court of Appeals ruling in the...
On May 1 2008 EFF and the law firm of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought against the operator of the...
While a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, Bernstein completed the development of an encryption equation (an "algorithm")...
At issue in this case was whether three software programmers who created the BnetD game server -- which interoperates with Blizzard video games...
Directory of information on Netherlands entertainment industry organizations' suit against Kazaa (a P2P software company) for the Dutch equivalent of...
In Bunnell v. Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) EFF filed a brief with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that federal...
On June 29 2006 EFF filed to block an Oklahoma school superintendent's attempt to unmask the identities of a local website's operator and all...
On August 10 2006 EFF along with the American Association of Law Libraries the ACLU and Public Citizen filed an amicus brief with an Oklahoma...
The filesharing case of Capitol Records v. Thomas-Rasset has a long, convoluted history. In October 2007, a jury found Jammie Thomas-Rasset liable...
This case is brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of lawyers and others working with the Guantanamo Bay prisoners. It is based...
EFF and Davis Wright Tremaine LLP are defending the Yes Men and other activists in a lawsuit filed against them by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over...
This is a mind-bogglingly absurd case involving circumvention in which Chamberlain Group - which holds a rather broad patent for "A Coding System for...
On February 1 2007 EFF warned the Chicago Auto Show to back off attempts to muzzle protestors who posted a parody of the show's website.
The parody...
The parody...
EFF urged the United States Supreme Court to ensure that modern communications methods such as text messages retain the constitutional privacy...
(aka Movies Studios v. TorrentSpy)
In this copyright infringement case the district court issued a dangerous ruling compelling TorrentSpy to create...
In this copyright infringement case the district court issued a dangerous ruling compelling TorrentSpy to create...
EFF the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) urged a Kentucky Court of Appeals in November of 2008...
