Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItExperts from the world’s top engineering programs have come together to share knowledge about medical technology, hoping to make life-saving treatments more widely available. Importantly, they’re ensuring that patents, copyrights, and other legal restrictions don’t get between that knowledge and the people who need it most.The availability of ventilators has emerged as a limiting factor in treatment of the COVID-19 virus, prompting researchers to imagine alternatives to the proprietary machines most commonly in...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItExperts from the world’s top engineering programs have come together to share knowledge about medical technology, hoping to make life-saving treatments more widely available. Importantly, they’re ensuring that patents, copyrights, and other legal restrictions don’t get between that knowledge and the people who need it most.The availability of ventilators has emerged as a limiting factor in treatment of the COVID-19 virus, prompting researchers to imagine alternatives to the proprietary machines most commonly in...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItIf you come at the nonprofit sector, you’d best not miss.Nonprofits and NGOs around the world were stunned last November when the —the organization that manages the .ORG top-level domain (TLD)—to private equity firm Ethos Capital. EFF and other leaders in the NGO community sprung to action, writing a letter to ISOC . What follows was possibly . .Oversight by a nonprofit was always part of the plan for .ORG.Prior to the announcement, EFF had spent six months about the 2019 .ORG Registry Agreement, which gave the...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItIf you come at the nonprofit sector, you’d best not miss.Nonprofits and NGOs around the world were stunned last November when the —the organization that manages the .ORG top-level domain (TLD)—to private equity firm Ethos Capital. EFF and other leaders in the NGO community sprung to action, writing a letter to ISOC . What follows was possibly . .Oversight by a nonprofit was always part of the plan for .ORG.Prior to the announcement, EFF had spent six months about the 2019 .ORG Registry Agreement, which gave the...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItPresident Trump’s if it doesn’t include a may represent the final attack on online free speech of his presidency, but it’s certainly not the first. The NDAA is one of the “must-pass” bills that Congress passes every year, and it’s absurd that Trump is using it as his at-the-buzzer shot to try to kill . Congress must reject Trump’s march against Section 230 once and for all.Under Section 230, the only party responsible for unlawful speech online is the person who said it, not the website where they posted it, the...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItPresident Trump’s if it doesn’t include a may represent the final attack on online free speech of his presidency, but it’s certainly not the first. The NDAA is one of the “must-pass” bills that Congress passes every year, and it’s absurd that Trump is using it as his at-the-buzzer shot to try to kill . Congress must reject Trump’s march against Section 230 once and for all.Under Section 230, the only party responsible for unlawful speech online is the person who said it, not the website where they posted it, the...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItLet’s tell the Copyright Office that .Every three years, the Copyright Office holds a rulemaking process where it grants the public permission to bypass digital locks for lawful purposes. In 2018, to include voice-activated home assistants like Amazon Echo and Google Home, but fell far short of . So we’re asking for a similar exemption, but we need your input to make the best case possible: if you use a device with onboard software and DRM keeps you from repairing that device or modifying the software to suit your...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItLet’s tell the Copyright Office that .Every three years, the Copyright Office holds a rulemaking process where it grants the public permission to bypass digital locks for lawful purposes. In 2018, to include voice-activated home assistants like Amazon Echo and Google Home, but fell far short of . So we’re asking for a similar exemption, but we need your input to make the best case possible: if you use a device with onboard software and DRM keeps you from repairing that device or modifying the software to suit your...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItGitHub recently , a popular free software tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other user-uploaded video platforms. GitHub had taken down the repository last month after the .By shoehorning DMCA 1201 into the notice-and-takedown process, RIAA potentially sets a very dangerous precedent.The removal of youtube-dl’s source code caused an outcry. The tool is used by journalists and activists to save eyewitness videos, by YouTubers to save backup copies of their own uploaded videos, and by people with slow or...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItGitHub recently , a popular free software tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other user-uploaded video platforms. GitHub had taken down the repository last month after the .By shoehorning DMCA 1201 into the notice-and-takedown process, RIAA potentially sets a very dangerous precedent.The removal of youtube-dl’s source code caused an outcry. The tool is used by journalists and activists to save eyewitness videos, by YouTubers to save backup copies of their own uploaded videos, and by people with slow or...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItNext time you hear someone blame Section 230 for a problem with social media platforms, ask yourself two questions: first, was this problem actually caused by Section 230? Second, would weakening Section 230 solve the problem? Politicians and commentators on both sides of the aisle frequently blame Section 230 for big tech companies’ failures, but their reform proposals wouldn’t actually address the problems they attribute to Big Tech. If lawmakers are concerned about large social media platforms’ outsized...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItNext time you hear someone blame Section 230 for a problem with social media platforms, ask yourself two questions: first, was this problem actually caused by Section 230? Second, would weakening Section 230 solve the problem? Politicians and commentators on both sides of the aisle frequently blame Section 230 for big tech companies’ failures, but their reform proposals wouldn’t actually address the problems they attribute to Big Tech. If lawmakers are concerned about large social media platforms’ outsized...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare It"youtube-dl" is a popular free software tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other user-uploaded video platforms. GitHub recently at the behest of the Recording Industry Association of America, potentially stopping many thousands of users, and other programs and services, that rely on it.On its face, this might seem like an ordinary copyright takedown of the type that happens every day. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a copyright holder can ask a platform to take down...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare It"youtube-dl" is a popular free software tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other user-uploaded video platforms. GitHub recently at the behest of the Recording Industry Association of America, potentially stopping many thousands of users, and other programs and services, that rely on it.On its face, this might seem like an ordinary copyright takedown of the type that happens every day. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a copyright holder can ask a platform to take down...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItFormer EFF intern Shashank Sirivolu contributed to this blog post. Social media users who have sued companies for deleting, demonetizing, and otherwise moderating their content have tried several arguments that this violates their constitutional rights. Courts have consistently ruled against them because social media platforms themselves have the First Amendment...In a new round of talks this week to formulate a , EFF is calling for strictly limiting the scope of the convention’s international cooperation...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItFormer EFF intern Shashank Sirivolu contributed to this blog post. Social media users who have sued companies for deleting, demonetizing, and otherwise moderating their content have tried several arguments that this violates their constitutional rights. Courts have consistently ruled against them because social media platforms themselves have the First Amendment...In a new round of talks this week to formulate a , EFF is calling for strictly limiting the scope of the convention’s international cooperation...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItThe COVID-19 pandemic demands that governments, scientific researchers, and industry work together to bring life-saving technology to the public regardless of who can afford it. But even as we take steps to make medical technology and treatments available to everyone, we shouldn’t forget that more crises will come after COVID-19. There will be future public health disasters; in fact, . As climate change continues to threaten human life, there will be other kind of disasters too. A patch for the current crisis is...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItThe COVID-19 pandemic demands that governments, scientific researchers, and industry work together to bring life-saving technology to the public regardless of who can afford it. But even as we take steps to make medical technology and treatments available to everyone, we shouldn’t forget that more crises will come after COVID-19. There will be future public health disasters; in fact, . As climate change continues to threaten human life, there will be other kind of disasters too. A patch for the current crisis is...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItEFF is standing with a huge coalition of organizations to urge Congress to oppose the Online Content Policy Modernization Act (OCPMA, ). Introduced by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the OCPMA is yet another of this year’s flood of misguided attacks on Internet speech (). The bill would make it harder for online platforms to take common-sense moderation measures like removing spam or correcting disinformation, including disinformation about the upcoming election. But it doesn’t stop there: the bill would also upend...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItEFF is standing with a huge coalition of organizations to urge Congress to oppose the Online Content Policy Modernization Act (OCPMA, ). Introduced by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the OCPMA is yet another of this year’s flood of misguided attacks on Internet speech (). The bill would make it harder for online platforms to take common-sense moderation measures like removing spam or correcting disinformation, including disinformation about the upcoming election. But it doesn’t stop there: the bill would also upend...WW…