Imagine if every depiction of a real person on social media could support a lawsuit. That’s the strange and dangerous logic of a recent lower court decision from California. In that case, Cross v. Facebook, a superior court judge ruled… Read More ›
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Update: EFF Fights to End Court Case Against MuckRock
After successfully defending MuckRock’s First Amendment right to host public records on its website earlier this summer, EFF filed documents in court on Monday seeking to end the last lawsuit brought against it in Seattle. The lawsuit was one of… Read More ›
Ripoff Report Doesn’t Own the Copyright in Users’ Posts, But Neither Does This Guy Suing Them For Infringement
People who don’t like what’s said about them on the Internet can’t bypass important protections for online speech by demanding the copyright to objectionable comments, EFF argues in a new amicus brief filed together with Public Citizen and Harvard’s Cyberlaw Clinic…. Read More ›
Victory: Court Ends Prior Restraint Against MuckRock
A court in Seattle has lifted an order that required our client MuckRock to remove documents one of its users obtained from a public records request. Agreeing with EFF, King County Superior Court Judge William Downing ruled that the previous… Read More ›
EFF Fights to End Prior Restraint Against MuckRock
EFF on Wednesday asked a Washington state trial court to lift its order that forced the public records website MuckRock to take down documents one of its users had lawfully obtained. The motion EFF filed on behalf of MuckRock and… Read More ›
Mississippi Attorney General Withdraws Burdensome Subpoena, but Google Continues to Fight
Last week, after over a year of fighting in court, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood withdrew a burdensome, 79-page investigatory subpoena issued to Google back in October 2014. Documents from the 2014 Sony hack implied the subpoena was part of… Read More ›
Court of Appeals Vacates Injunction Against Mississippi Attorney General in Case Against Google
Last week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned an injunction issued by a federal district court judge last year. The injunction would have prevented Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood from enforcing his massively large and demanding administrative subpoena against… Read More ›
The Web’s First Blackout Protest: The CDA, 20 Years Later
Twenty years ago, large chunks of the Web went dark. These sites were changing their layout, or in some cases even going offline, to protest the Communications Decency Act, signed on February 8 by President Bill Clinton as Title V… Read More ›