Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Electronic Frontier Foundation was formed in July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor in response to a series of actions by law enforcement agencies that led them to conclude that the authorities were gravely uninformed about emerging forms of online communication, [1] [unreliable source?] and that there was a need for increased protection for Internet civil liberties.
July 10, 1990: EFF is founded and the groundwork is laid for the successful representation of Steve Jackson Games in a federal court case to prosecute the United States Secret Service for unlawfully raiding their offices and seizing computers. [1] [2] 1991: Steve Jackson Games v. United States Secret Service. EFF files in federal court. [3]
EFF v. Global Equity (see SPEECH Act § Use in courts) Electric Slide Litigation; Eli Lilly Zyprexa Litigation; Embroidery Software Protection Coalition v. Ebert & Weaver; First Cash v. John Doe; Fix Wilson Yard v. City of Chicago; Frankel v. Lyons (Barney) Fuller v. Doe; Indymedia Server Takedown; JibJab Media v. Ludlow Music ("This Land ...
Jewel v. National Security Agency, 673 F.3d 902 (9th Cir., 2011), was a class action lawsuit argued before the District Court for the Northern District of California and the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, filed by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of American citizens who believed that they had been surveilled by the National Security Agency (NSA) without a warrant. [1]
To approach Barlow's vision of a self-governing Internet, the Cyberspace Law Institute set up a virtual magistrate, now hosted by the Chicago-Kent College of Law. Magistrates would be appointed by the institute and other legal groups to solve online disputes. [7] The declaration has been criticized for internal inconsistencies. [9]
The proposed law would have expanded existing criminal laws to include unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content, imposing a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Proponents of the legislation said it would protect the intellectual-property market and corresponding industry, jobs and revenue, and was necessary to bolster enforcement of ...
He was the first staff counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and he created the Internet adage Godwin's law and the notion of an Internet meme. [1] From July 2007 to October 2010, he was general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation. In March 2011, he was elected to the Open Source Initiative board. [2]
The EFF in turn appealed this ruling, with the dispute again being heard at the Ninth Circuit. [19] In 2011, that court dismissed the appeal because the EFF could not argue that AT&T had any legal liability for cooperating with the NSA surveillance, especially in light of the retroactive immunity against lawsuits enabled by the FISA Amendments ...