California is facing a broadband access crisis, as parents are relying more on the Internet every day trying to keep their jobs in the midst of the pandemic while remotely educating their kids. The people of California need help, and… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Creativity & Innovation’
What Really Does and Doesn’t Work for Fair Use in the DMCA
On July 28, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary held another in its year-long series of hearings on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The topic of this hearing was “How Does the DMCA Contemplate Limitations and Exceptions Like Fair… Read More ›
Apple’s Response to HEY Showcases What’s Most Broken About the Apple App Store
Basecamp’s new paid email service, HEY, has been making headlines recently in a very public fight with Apple over their App Store terms of service. Just as the service was launching, the HEY developers found the new release of the… Read More ›
Our EU Policy Principles: Interoperability
As the EU is gearing up for a major reform of key Internet regulation, we are introducing the principles that will guide our policy work surrounding the Digital Services Act. In this post, we take a closer look at what… Read More ›
Medical Device Repair Again Threatened With Copyright Claims
Medical providers face countless challenges in responding to the COVID pandemic, and copyright shouldn’t have to be one of them. Hundreds of volunteers came together to create the Medical Device Repair Database posted to the repair information website iFixit, providing… Read More ›
When the Senate Talks About the Internet, Note Who They Leave Out
In the midst of pandemic and protest, the Senate Judiciary Committee continued on with the third of many planned hearings about copyright. It is an odd moment to be considering whether or not the notice-and-takedown system laid out by Section… Read More ›
Trump’s Executive Order Threatens to Leverage Government’s Advertising Dollars to Pressure Online Platforms
This is one of a series of blog posts about President Trump’s May 28 Executive Order. Other posts can be found here, here, here, and here. The inaptly named Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship (EO) seeks to insert the… Read More ›
Internet Users of All Kinds Should Be Concerned by a New Copyright Office Report
Outside of the beltway, people all over the United States are taking to the streets to demand fundamental change. In the halls of Congress and the White House, however, many people seem to think the biggest thing that needs to… Read More ›
EFF to Appeals Court: Reverse Legal Gotchas on Ordinary Internet Activities
In the Internet age, copyright decisions can have enormous consequences for all kinds of activities, because almost everything we do on the Internet involves making copies. And when courts make a mistake, they may create all sorts of unexpected legal… Read More ›
Stopping the Google-Fitbit Merger: Your Stories Needed!
There’s a dirty secret in the incredible growth of Silicon Valley’s tech giants: it’s a cheat. Historically, US antitrust regulators would be deeply concerned about mergers with major competitors in concentrated markets (“mergers to monopoly”) and acquisitions of small companies… Read More ›