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EFF Sues Justice Department for Immediate Release of NSL
Abuse Records
</b><br />
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
has asked a judge to issue an emergency order requiring the
FBI to immediately release agency records about its abuse
of National Security Letters (NSLs) to collect Americans'
personal information.
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<span class="related">
<a href="/news/archives/2007_04.php#005196">Full release</a>, 
<a href="/flag">More on the filing</a>
<br />
April 10, 2007
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<b>
Recording Industry Target Deserves Day in Court
</b><br />
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
has filed a brief with a New York district court, urging a
judge to allow the target of a recording industry lawsuit
to fight back with counterclaims of his own.
<br />
<span class="related">
<a href="/news/archives/2007_04.php#005195">Full release</a>, 
<a href="/legal/cases/lava_v_amurao/lava_amicus.pdf">EFF's Amicus</a> [PDF]
<br />
April 10, 2007
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<b>
Free Speech Battle Over Online Parody of 'Colbert Report'
</b><br />
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a federal court today
to protect the free speech rights of MoveOn.org Civic Action and Brave
New Films after their satirical send-up of "The Colbert Report" was
removed from YouTube following a baseless copyright complaint from
media giant Viacom.
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<span class="related">
<a href="/news/archives/2007_03.php#005176">Full release</a>, 
<a href="/legal/cases/moveon_v_viacom/">More on the case</a>
<br />
Mar 22, 2007
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<b>
DMCA Abuser Apologizes for Takedown Campaign
</b><br />
Michael Crook, the man behind a string of meritless online copyright
complaints, has agreed to withdraw those complaints, take a copyright
law course, and apologize for interfering with the free speech rights of
his targets.
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<span class="related">
<a href="/news/archives/2007_03.php#005161">Full release</a>, 
<a href="/legal/cases/diehl_v_crook/">More on the case</a>
<br />
Mar 14, 2007
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<b>
American Studios' Secret Plan to Lock Down European TV Devices
</b><br />
An international consortium of television and technology companies is devising draconian anti-consumer restrictions for the next generation of TVs in Europe and beyond, at the behest of American entertainment giants.
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<span class="related">
<a href="/news/archives/2007_03.php#005156">Full release</a>, 
<a href="/IP/DVB/dvb_briefing_paper.php">The Full Report</a>
<br />
Mar 13, 2007
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<b>
EFF Kills Bogus Clear Channel Patent
</b><br />
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has announced it will revoke an illegitimate patent held by Clear Channel Communications after a campaign by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
<br />
<span class="related">
<a href="/news/archives/2007_03.php#005155">Full release</a>, 
<a href="/patent/wanted/clearchannel/notice_of_intent_to_cancel.pdf">Notice from the patent office</a>, <a href="/patent/">More on Patent Busting</a>
Mar 13, 2007
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<b>
Yochai Benkler, Cory Doctorow, and Bruce Schneier Win EFF Pioneer Awards
</b><br />
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2007 Pioneer Awards: Professor Yochai Benkler of Yale Law School, writer and Boing Boing co-editor Cory Doctorow, and security technologist Bruce Schneier. Mark Cuban -- HDNet Chairman and NBA Dallas Mavericks owner -- will give the keynote address at the award ceremony. The 16th annual Pioneer Awards will be held at 7:30pm, March 27th, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego in conjunction with the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference.
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<span class="related">
<a href="/news/archives/2007_03.php#005149">Full release</a>, 
<a href="/awards/pioneer/">More on the Pioneer Awards</a><br />
Mar 9, 2007
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<b>
EFF Calls For Aggressive Congressional Hearings on National
Security Letter Misuse
</b><br />
 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
is calling for Congress to hold aggressive hearings on the
FBI's domestic intelligence authority after the release of
a Justice Department report showing the Bureau abusing its
power to collect telephone, Internet, financial, credit,
and other personal records about Americans without judicial
approval.
<br />
<span class="related">
<a href="/news/archives/2007_03.php#005152">Full release</a>, 
<a href="/patriot/sunset/505.php">More on Nationa Security Letters</a>, <a  href="http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/s0703b/final.pdf">Full report from the Justice Dept</a> (offsite PDF)<br />
Mar 9, 2007
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<b>
'Electric Slide' Creator Steps on Fair Use
</b><br />
EFF filed suit today against the man who claims to have created the
popular line dance "The Electric Slide," asking the court to protect
the free speech rights of a videographer who captured a few steps of
the dance in a documentary video he posted to the Internet.
<br />
<span class="related">
<a href="/news/archives/2007_03.php#005143">Full release</a>, <a
href="/legal/cases/electricslide/complaint.pdf">Complaint</a> [PDF]
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Mar 1, 2007
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<b>
EFF Lawsuit Seeks Release of Secret Court Orders on Electronic Surveillance
</b><br />
EFF filed suit against the Department of Justice today, demanding
records about secret new court orders that supposedly authorize the
government's highly controversial electronic surveillance program that
intercepts and analyzes millions of Americans' communications.
<br />
<span class="related">
<a href="/news/archives/2007_02.php#005140">Full release</a>, <a
href="/flag/oipr/oipr_complaint.pdf">FOIA Complaint</a> [PDF]
<br />
Feb 27, 2007
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<p>
<b>
Fight Over Google's 'Sponsored Links' Threatens Internet
Free Speech
</b><br />
EFF asked the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals today to uphold
an important ruling allowing anyone to purchase Google's
"sponsored links" tied to trademarks, arguing that the
practice is legal under trademark law and provides a vital
means for online speakers to connect with audiences on the
Internet.
<br />
<span class="related">
<a href="/news/archives/2007_02.php#005134">Full release</a>, <a
href="/legal/cases/rescuecom_v_google/EFF_amicus.pdf">EFF's Amicus in
the case</a> [PDF]

<br />
Feb 22, 2007
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<b>
Judge Refuses to Release Critical Documents in AT&T Surveillance Case
</b><br />
A federal judge in San Francisco today denied requests from media
groups to unseal critical evidence in the Electronic Frontier
Foundation's (EFF's) class-action lawsuit against AT&T.
<br />
<span class="related">
<a href="/news/archives/2007_02.php#005127">Full release</a>, <a href="/legal/cases/att/order_media_unsealing.pdf">Order</a> [PDF]
<br />
Feb 20, 2007
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<b>
Media Giant Bullies Internet Critic
</b><br />
EFF warned Discovery Communications, Inc., today to cease its
demands for the removal of an online template that uses
humor to help people criticize the media company.
<br />
<span class="related">
<a href="/news/archives/2007_02.php#005126">Full release</a>, 
<a href="/legal/cases/discoverycom_v_rubinstein/response_letter.pdf">EFF's letter</a> [PDF]
<br />
Feb 15, 2007
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<b>
Eli Lilly Loses Effort to Censor Zyprexa Documents Off the Internet
</b><br />
 A U.S. District Court judge today refused Eli
Lilly's request to ban a number of websites from publishing
leaked documents relating to Zyprexa, Eli Lilly's
top-selling drug.
<br />
<span class="related">
<a href="/news/archives/2007_02.php#005122">Full release</a>, 
<a href="/legal/cases/zyprexa">More on Zyprexa</a>
<br />
Feb 8, 2007
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<b>
EFF Fights to Unmuzzle Citizen Journalists
</b><br />
EFF told a judge Wednesday to remove the legal muzzle on citizen journalists caught up in a court battle over documents relating to the controversial prescription drug Zyprexa. EFF argues that the injunction against publication of the documents online is prior restraint on their free speech and a violation of First Amendment rights.
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<span class="related">
<a href="/news/archives/2007_02.php#005118">Full release</a>, 
<a href="/legal/cases/zyprexa">More on Zyprexa</a>
<br />
Feb 8, 2007
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