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Opinion: Congress copyright bill threat to whistleblowing and Internet

donal brown November 7, 2011

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) under consideration in Congress could result in extensive Internet censorship and threaten the work of human rights advocates and whistleblowers, argues Trevor Timm, an Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer. “[SOPA]threatens to transform copyright law, pushing Internet intermediaries—from Facebook to your ISP—to censor whole swaths of the Internet. SOPA could forever alter social networks, stifle innovation and creativity, and destroy jobs…” and even bring about the end of the Internet as

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Digital freedom watchdog sues Justice Department over Patriot Act

donal brown October 27, 2011

The Electronic Freedom Foundation sued the Department of Justice for its failure to release documents detailing its interpretation and use of Section 215 of the U.S.A. Patriot Act. The section allows the FBI to obtain a court order for “any tangible thing” related to a terrorism investigation. The EFF claims the government has been misusing the Patriot Act to investigate citizens without their knowledge. -db From the Courthouse News Service, October 27, 2011, by Maria

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EFF pushes for disclosure of makeup of Intelligence Oversight Board

donal brown September 29, 2011

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the government for records of who is on the Intelligence Oversight Board, the civilian board responsible for reviewing misconduct reports for federal intelligence agencies. The suit  is part of EFF’s ongoing investigation of intelligence violations as Congress considers changes to current oversight laws. -db From a press release from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, September 27, 2011. Full story

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Righthaven may have filed its last copyright infringement suit

donal brown September 7, 2011

The controversial copyright  troll, Righthaven, has not filed a lawsuit in two months after punishing court rulings against the company. The firm began over a year ago supposedly to buy copyrights from news media and file suits to stop copyright infringements. Although Righthaven is appealing the court decisions that held that it had no legal standing to file the suits, its operations are at a standstill as the appeal cases take months and years to

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Opinion: Righthaven lacks exclusive copyright ownership of Stephens Media news articles

donal brown April 19, 2011

Electronic Frontier Foundation Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl says that in obtaining  from a federal district court an agreement between Righthaven and Stephens Media, it discovered that although Righthaven claimed in its suits for copyright infringement that it held exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute Stephens Media news articles, that the agreement stated that Righthaven “shall have no right or license to Exploit or participate in the receipt of royalties from the Exploitation of the

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