Colbert’s Word: C...

Just a few weeks after his interview with EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn, American hero Stephen Colbert has returned to the subject of digital rights. And he’s come up with a great solution to the problem of privacy and online social networks: Control-Self-Delete. More here: Colbert’s...

EFF Seeks to Help Right...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is seeking to assist defendants in the Righthaven copyright troll lawsuits. Righthaven, founded in March of 2010, files hundreds of copyright infringement lawsuits on behalf of newspaper publishers against bloggers who make use of news content without...

EFF’s Cindy Cohn ...

We’re pleased to announce that EFF’s Legal Director, Cindy Cohn , has won a Go here to see the original:  EFF’s Cindy Cohn Wins IP Vanguard Award from State Bar of California

Musopen Wants to Give C...

Music lovers take note: the classical music archive Musopen needs your help to liberate some classic symphonies from copyright entanglement . Museopen is looking to solve a difficult problem: while symphonies written by Beethoven, Brahms, Sibelius, and Tchaikovsky are in the public...

Steve Jobs Is Watching ...

It looks like Apple, Inc., is exploring a new business opportunity: spyware and what we’re calling “traitorware.” While users were celebrating the new jailbreaking and unlocking exemptions, Apple was quietly preparing to apply for a patent on technology that, among...

Jury Invalidates One of...

Good news in the fight against bad software patents: a jury in the Eastern District of Texas recently found the Firepond/Polaris patent (U.S. Patent No. 6,411,947) invalid View original post here:  Jury Invalidates One of EFF’s ‘Most Wanted’ Patents