Deeplinks Blog
Features news and information identified as important by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Author: Authors include Tim Jones, Electronic Frontier Foundation activism & Internet projects coordinator; Gwen Hinze, an attorney and EFF's international policy director; Fred von Lohmann EFF senior staff attorney; Emily Berger, an attorney and intellectual property fellow; Cindy Cohn, EFF legal director and general counsel; Corynne McSherry, EFF staff attorney; and Hugh D'Andrade, EFF designer/activist.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Internet Law • Law Practice Management • Legal Technology
Recent Posts from Deeplinks Blog
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Google Books Settlement 2.0: Evaluating Competition
This is the third in a series of posts about the proposed Google Book Search settlement. Now that we've described the proposed settlement agreement's biggest potential upside for the public—expanded online access to books, particularly…
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UK Alert: Stop the Pirate-Finder General!
In the UK, the Labour administration's impatience to pass its "Digital Economy" agenda risks throwing balanced, deliberate reform of copyright law utterly out of the window. With no warning or consultation, the draft Digital Economy…
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A Pirate-Finder General for the UK?
Copyright law involves a delicate balance, made all the more fragile by the number of people who now find their every day actions affected by it. Some people benefit, others find ordinary behaviors made illegal.…
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EFF Tackles Bogus Podcasting Patent - And We Need Your Help
Patenting podcasting? You've got to be kidding. Yet a company called Volomedia just got the Patent Office to grant them such exclusive rights. EFF and the law firm of Howrey, LLP aren’t willing to just…
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Stopping the ACTA Juggernaut
The ACTA juggernaut continues to roll ahead, despite public indignation about an agreement supposedly about counterfeiting that has turned into a regime for global Internet regulation. The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR)…
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ACLU of Northern California Launches dotRights Privacy Campaign
We're excited to share the news that our friends at the ACLU of Northern California have just launched their dotRights privacy campaign, an impressive effort to spread the word about how online services collect and…
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Google Books Settlement 2.0: Evaluating Access
This is the second in a series of posts about the proposed Google Book Search settlement. The Potential Upside: Enhanced Public Access From the public's point of view, unprecedented public access to books is the…
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Google Books Settlement 2.0: Evaluating the Pros and Cons
This is the first in a series of posts evaluating the proposed Google Book Search settlement. When it announced its Book Search project in 2004, Google set for itself an inspiring and noble goal. In…
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Google Book Search Settlement Revised: No Reader Privacy Added
Late Friday night the parties to the Google Book Search class action submitted a revised settlement agreement to the federal court in New York that is hearing the case. Unfortunately, the parties did not add…
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More Freedom Necessary as Top Developers Abandon iPhone
UPDATE: Macworld reports that Apple has changed its mind and approved the "Bobble Rep" app, which is now available in the App Store. Apple's ridiculous iPhone app approval process has hit a new low, with…