The Electronic Frontier Foundation and People For the American Way are spearheading the fight against amnesty for telecommunications companies which have illegally spied on Americans over the past six years. They’re asking for bloggers & podcasters to speak out against the proposed immunity legislation.
According to the “Stop The Spying” initiative,
The Bush administration has, [over the [...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed suit against Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), asking a federal court to protect the fair use and free speech rights of a mother who posted a short video of her toddler son dancing to a Prince song on the Internet.
Stephanie Lenz’s 29-second recording shows her son bouncing along [...]

From Dean Whitbread, Chairman of the UK Podcasters Association, comes this news of negotiations for the WIPO Broadcast Treaty:
“[I]n Geneva this week, so concerted has been the resistance to the much disliked WIPO Broadcast Treaty in its current form, with even the US delegation finding serious fault with it, that at several points today it [...]

The MPAA has filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York, Paramount Pictures v. Load ‘N Go Video, suing a small business for loading DVDs onto personal media players (e.g., iPod Video) on behalf of customers.
Load ‘N Go sells both DVDs and iPods and will load purchased DVDs onto iPods for customers who purchase [...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is fighting a self-help group’s subpoenas that seek to identify anonymous users of several video sharing sites.
According to EFF, San Francisco-based Landmark Education, known for its Landmark Forum motivational workshops, is trying to suppress an investigative television news piece critical of its methods. Citing alleged copyright violation, Landmark subpoenaed three [...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published information about how individuals can investigate government agencies. The Bloggers’ FAQ on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) outlines how to use open government laws to get access to records kept by federal agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), or the [...]

A California state appeals court ruled in favor of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) petition on behalf of three online journalists Friday, deciding that the online journalists have the same right to protect the confidentiality of their sources as offline reporters do.
“Today’s decision is a victory for the rights of journalists, whether online or offline, [...]