The longer we live in the new digital world, the more we are seeing it replicate systemic issues we’ve been fighting for decades. In the case of movie studios, what we’ve seen in the last few years in streaming mirrors… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Creativity & Innovation’
EFF to Court: Don’t Let Pseudo-IP Thwart Speech, Innovation, and Competition
The threats to online expression and innovation keep coming. One that’s flown under the radar is a misguided effort to convince the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to allow claims based on the “right of publicity,” (i.e., the right to… Read More ›
Thank You for Speaking Against a Terrible Copyright Proposal
Last week was the deadline for comments on the draft of the so-called “Digital Copyright Act,” a proposal which would fundamentally change how creativity functions online. We asked for creators to add their voices to the many groups opposing this… Read More ›
Coded Resistance: Freedom Fighting and Communication
It’s nearing the end of Black History Month, and that history is inherently tied to strife, resistance, and organizing related to government surveillance and oppression. Even though programs like COINTELPRO are more well-known now, the other side of these kinds… Read More ›
How Do Copyright Rules Affect Internet Creators? And What Can They Do About It?
If you make and share things online, professionally or for fun, you’ve been affected by copyright law. You may use a service that depends on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in order to survive. You may have gotten a… Read More ›
Cops Using Music to Try to Stop Being Filmed Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Someone tries to livestream their encounters with the police, only to find that the police started playing music. In the case of a February 5 meeting between an activist and the Beverly Hills Police Department, the song of choice was… Read More ›
Some Answers to Questions About the State of Copyright in 2021
In all the madness that made up the last month of 2020, a number of copyright bills and proposals popped up—some even became law before most people had any chance to review them. So now that the dust has settled… Read More ›
A Smorgasbord of Bad Takedowns: 2020 Year in Review
Here at EFF, we take particular notice of the way that intellectual property law leads to expression being removed from the Internet. We document the worst examples in our Takedown Hall of Shame. Some, we use to explain more complex… Read More ›
How We Saved .ORG: 2020 in Review
If you come at the nonprofit sector, you’d best not miss. Nonprofits and NGOs around the world were stunned last November when the Internet Society (ISOC) announced that it had agreed to sell the Public Interest Registry—the organization that manages… Read More ›
The CASE Act Is Just the Beginning of the Next Copyright Battle
As we feared, the “Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act”—the CASE Act—that we’ve been fighting in various forms for two years has been included in a “must-pass” spending bill. This new legislation means Internet users could face up to $30,000… Read More ›