Contact: Robin Gross, EFF Staff Attorney - Intellectual Property, +1 415-436-9333 x112, robin@eff.org [NOTE: Will Doherty will be out of the office until August 8, so please direct media requests to Robin or to press@eff.org] San Francisco, CA - Representatives of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) met with representatives of...

There's been a lot of debate about the recent jailing of a young Russian named Dmitry Sklyarov, who helped write a controversial program that used to be sold by his employer, a Moscow company named Elcomsoft. This missive will be a bit different from some of the others you've read...

The American public has traditionally enjoyed the ability to make convenience and incidental copies of copyrighted works without the necessity of obtaining the prior consent of the owner of the copyright. These traditional "fair use" rights are at the foundation of the receipt and use of information by the American...

Contacts for EFF: Will Doherty, EFF Online Activist / Media Relations, wild@eff.org, +1 415-436-9333 x111 Robin Gross, EFF Staff Attorney - Intellectual Property, robin@eff.org, +1 415-436-9333 x112 Contact for Adobe: Holly Campbell, Senior Corporate Public Relations Manager, campbell@adobe.com, +1 408-536-6401 San Jose, Calif. - Adobe Systems Incorporated...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and community activists urge concerned citizens to join in a San Francisco Bay Area protest on Monday, July 23, against software firm Adobe's role in the jailing of programmer Dmitry Sklyarov. The local protest is part of a multinational effort to secure the release of Sklyarov...

Once again, the Digital Millineum Copyright Act (DMCA) is proving itself to be as harmful to civil liberties as we predicted it would be. The latest victim is a Russian programmer named Dmitry Sklyarov, who authored a program that permits copying, printing and lending of electronic books by unlocking a...