The Electronic Frontier Foundation The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) with phone numbers and links of world wide activism organizations. http://www.interware.it/users/giz/eff/activism.htm
Extractions: P.O. Box 170190 San Francisco CA 94117 USA +1 202 861 7700 (voice) +1 202 861 1258 (fax) AFTER AUG. 17: +1 415 668 7171 (voice) +1 415 668 7007 (fax) +1 202 861 1223 (BBS - 16.8k ZyXEL) +1 202 861 1224 (BBS - 14.4k V.32bis) Internet: ask@eff.org The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and promoting the civil liberties of the users of online technology. EFF's work includes educating policymakers, law enforcement and citizens about the issues that affect our current and future communications. EFF is dedicated to providing critical information to the online community through our newsletters (hardcopy and electronic), BBS (Outpost), Internet mailing lists, Usenet newsgroups and online archives (ftp, gopher, wais and www). We believe that citizen involvement is the best way to guarantee that the future of our online communications will be consistant with our traditions of free speech and privacy. EFF members participate in a special kind of activism that includes electronic mail campaigns and online political organizing. For more information on membership in the Electronic Frontier Foundation, send mail to membership@eff.org. * CONTACTING EFF
Extractions: Equipped for the Future Since 1994 the National Institute for Literacy has led a collaborative, nationwide effort to develop adult learning standards that can guide instruction and assessment and improve the quality and results of adult literacy programs. The 16 Equipped for the Future standards define the knowledge and skills adults need in order to successfully carry out their roles as parents, citizens, and workers in the 21st Century. These skills include strong reading, writing, and math skills; they also include the skills we need to communicate and work well with others; to solve problems; and to keep up with change. Although Equipped for the Future (EFF) is a voluntary initiative, nearly 600 adult literacy programs in 38 states are already using the EFF content framework to guide teaching and learning. Eighteen states have begun using the EFF standards to improve the quality of one or more of their adult learning systems. In addition, key national organizations like the National Center for Family Literacy, the National Urban League, ProLiteracy, and the National Retail Federation are using EFF as an integral part of their own training and program improvement systems. EFF is currently working with these state and national partners to develop a range of research-based tools that can assist programs, states, and national organizations in using the standards to improve instruction and results. These include:
EFF: Trademark Law Shouldn't Prejudice Internet Ads EFF is asking a federal appeals court to reverse a lower court decision involving WhenU's right to provide online advertisements during web browsing. Online contact lens distributor 1800 Contacts won that decision. http://www.eff.org/IP/TM/20040219_eff_pr.php
Extractions: @import url(/stylesheets/eff-2box.css); @import url(/stylesheets/eff-nav.css); SITE MAP CASES ACTION CENTER PRESS ROOM ... September 10, 2005 New York, NY - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) yesterday asked a federal appeals court to reverse a lower court decision involving the right to provide online advertisements during web browsing. Online contact lens distributor 1-800 Contacts, Inc., won an initial trademark violation lawsuit against WhenU.com, Inc., in October 2002, claiming that WhenU.com's SaveNow software confused potential customers by generating ads related to the words and web addresses people enter into online search engines and web browsers. WhenU.com appealed the lower court's ruling in December 2003 explaining that its ads known as pop-ups, pop-unders, and other types are all generated in a manner that does not confuse web users. "If I'm walking to my neighborhood drugstore to purchase contact lenses and on the way I see a pharmacy with lenses at half the price, I should be able to stop by and take a look at the competition before making my purchase," said EFF Senior Intellectual Property Attorney Fred von Lohmann. "The lower court failed to consider common sense in making its decision to prevent WhenU from placing ads near other company's websites, and we believe the appeals court will recognize that competitive non-deceptive advertising online is not a violation of trademark law."
Equipped For The Future - Resources More results from www.nifl.gov EFF WorldAudience, Artists, and Venues intersect in the EDJ to provide an offthe-internetsource of fresh, new music. Let EFF keep you on the bleeding EDJ of http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/collections/eff/eff.html
Extractions: Search Literacy Information Literacy Resources Student/Learner Teacher/Tutor Manager/Administrator Products/Publications Features EFF Fundamentals Online Discussion Quick Reference Assessment Resource Collection Teaching/Learning Toolkit Teaching Adults to Read with Understanding Work Readiness Credential ... EFF Portal EFF Center for Training and Technical Assistance @ Center for Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee 600 Henley St, Suite 312 Knoxville, TN 37996-4135 (865) 974-8426 fax: (865) 974-3857 Welcome Since 1994 the National Institute for Literacy has led the EFF initiative to develop adult learning standards that can guide instruction and assessment and improve the quality and results of adult literacy programs. The EFF Center for Training and Technical Assistance , located at the Center for Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, provides support for states and program in adopting and using the EFF Standards. The EFF Special Collection brings EFF related resources and expertise to a single point of access for multiple users working in adult and family literacy education. The collection includes materials developed by EFF partners and other quality materials relevant to standards-based education and program improvement. For more information about EFF or this website, or if you have recommendations of other resources to include here, please
LawMeme EFF doesn't think Blizzard has a case and unless Blizzard responds with more information the code goes back up in 10 days. News, a satiric fable, and reader discussion. LawMeme http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=
LawMeme - EFF's Blog For Freedom The EFF is running a Bloga-thon, Blog for Freedom, this week as part of their 15th Re EFF s Blog for Freedom (Score 1) by jessicalandy on Sunday, http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1726
Nettime Mailing List Interview by J¡nos Sug¡r about cyberspace and the goals of the EFF. http://www.nettime.org/desk-mirror/zkp2/barlow.html
LawMeme - Some Questions And Concerns Regarding EFF's Filesharing Policy The EFF s Jason Schultz has written a response (File sharing must be made legal).You can also check out the EFF s Let the Music Play Campaign page. http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1199
EFF: DeepLinks Electronic Frontier Foundation is a nonprofit group working to protect yourdigital rights. http://blogs.eff.org/deeplinks/
Extractions: @import url(/stylesheets/eff-2box.css); @import url(/stylesheets/eff-nav.css); SITE MAP CASES ACTION CENTER PRESS ROOM ... Suggest a Link This is changing. Brazil and Argentina, leading a group of 14 countries (with the support of other developing nations such as India, Pakistan, and the African Group), have demanded that WIPO adopt a " development agenda ," whereby all of its new treaties will take into account international development goals. Now comes the hard part: turning this proposal into a concrete plan of action. In July 2005, WIPO's Member States held the last of three Intergovernmental Inter-sessional Meetings (IIMs) on the proposal to establish a WIPO Development Agenda. The goal was to produce a set of specific humanitarian reform proposals to be discussed in the September 2005 meeting of the WIPO General Assembly. Unfortunately, the US and Japan blocked consensus by the majority of the Member States to extend the discussions for a year with three further IIMs. They want to shift the Development Agenda discussions to the Permanent Committee on Cooperation for Development Related to Intellectual Property (PCIPD), a limited and less powerful advisory committee. So instead of moving forward with concrete proposals for reform, Member States must wait for a decision by the WIPO General Assembly about the proper forum to hold future discussions. Despite this procedural stalling, some countries made excellent proposals during these meetings (in particular, see the
WSB On Scientology WSB took Scientology's Clearing Course at Saint Hill Manor in 1968 and was initially very enthusiastic about it. By 1970, though, Burroughs was thoroughly disillusioned. Here's an excerpt from Burroughs on Scientology , from the Los Angeles Free Press, March 6, 1970. http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/Misc/William_S_Burroughs/burroughs_on_cos.ar
EFF: MiniLinks Electronic Frontier Foundation is a nonprofit group working to protect yourdigital rights. http://blogs.eff.org/minilinks/
Extractions: @import url(/stylesheets/eff-2box.css); @import url(/stylesheets/eff-nav.css); SITE MAP CASES ACTION CENTER PRESS ROOM ... September 10, 2005 Some imposter tarnishing our precious intellectual property marks. Note he is not wearing any of our standard biometric identification markers or RFID beacons. link Permalink Misc. "The longer, the better," says the country's justice minister, remarking that human rights should recognize the "circumstances in the modern world." After all, now we've completely cured tyranny and the use of violence, who needs 'em? link Permalink Surveillance Bill Patry tracks Grokster as it crops up as precedent in court rulings. link Permalink CA promises not to use 14 patents against open source software. link Permalink Patents RIAA, apparently a little out of practice having to argue its case, asks for a second oral argument. link Permalink September 06, 2005
Extractions: @import url(/stylesheets/eff-2box.css); @import url(/stylesheets/eff-nav.css); SITE MAP CASES ACTION CENTER PRESS ROOM ... September 10, 2005 San Jose - Voting machine company Diebold Systems, Inc., agreed today in federal court not to sue or send any further legal threats to anyone who publishes their corporate email archive indicating flaws in Diebold's voting machines and irregularities with certifying the systems for actual elections. Diebold also agreed to send retractions of its earlier legal threats to the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who received them. "We're pleased that Diebold has retreated and the public is now free to continue its interrupted conversation over the accuracy of electronic voting machines," said EFF Staff Attorney Wendy Seltzer. "We continue to seek a court order to protect posters, linkers, and the ISPs who host them." U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel ordered the case to mediation and set out a schedule to finalize remaining issues in the case with motions due on January 12 and January 30 and a hearing scheduled for February 9, 2004.
Wendy's Blog: Legal Tags EFF was just the place, out in the forefront persuading courts, regulators, I ve had the privilege at EFF to work to ward off restrictive technology http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/
Extractions: Musings of a techie lawyer. September 08, 2005 What Can't You Do With the New IPod Phone? That's the question David Pogue asks in today's NYT column , because what you can do doesn't include many of the things a customer would most want. Add Apple/Cingular/Motorola's new Rokr to the list of technologies Derek recently reviewed in the new guide, The Customer Is Always Wrong deliberately crippled to protect outdated business plans. ...Will the phone have a hard drive that can hold thousands of songs? Will you be able to download songs straight from the Internet? Will it have a FireWire or U.S.B. 2.0 connector for superfast music transfer? Will you be able to use your songs as ring tones, so that the phone bursts out in "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman" when your husband calls? ...the answer to all of [those questions] is no. No, the phone doesn't contain a hard drive. It comes with a tiny, 512-megabyte TransFlash memory card. Incredibly, though, you can only store 100 songs on the phone, tops, no matter how much room is left on the card. ... No, you can't use songs as ring tones, at least not the songs you've bought from Apple's music store. (You can use ordinary MP3 files as ring tones, but loading them onto the phone isn't trivial.) This, too, is almost certainly a limitation driven by corporate interests. Cellphone carriers charge $1.50 to $3 apiece for ring tones; Cingular certainly wouldn't want to hand that lucrative business over to Apple's music store.
EFF: Blizzard V. BNETD The Electronic Frontier Foundation's archive of resources about the legal threat, including Vivendi's ceaseand-desist letter and EFF's replies to corporate counsel explaining why their claims are unfounded. http://www.eff.org/IP/Emulation/Blizzard_v_bnetd/
Extractions: @import url(/stylesheets/eff-2box.css); @import url(/stylesheets/eff-nav.css); SITE MAP CASES ACTION CENTER PRESS ROOM ... Blizzard v. bnetd BnetD is an open source program that lets gamers play popular Blizzard titles like Warcraft with other gamers on servers that don't belong to Blizzard's Battle.net service. Blizzard argued that the programmers who wrote BnetD violated the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions and that the programmers also violated several parts of Blizzard's EULA, including a section on reverse engineering. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the firm of are serving as counsel for defendants and have appealed a District Court decision in St. Louis that held that programmers are not allowed to create free software designed to work with commercial products. As it stands, the lower court's decision makes it unlawful in most cases to reverse engineer any commercial software program, thus making it impossible to create new programs that interoperate with older ones. This squeezes consumer choice out of the marketplace by essentially allowing companies to outlaw competitors' products that interact with their own. EFF considers this situation unacceptable and will use the appeal to explain why EULAs and the DMCA should not be allowed to trump fair use forms of reverse engineering when undertaken to create new products. Audio of Oral Arguments before the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals June 20, 2005
The Hacker Crackdown The Civil Libertarians Part four of the electronic release of Bruce Sterling's book detailing how illicit copies of Apple source code led to the FBI visiting Barlow and triggered the founding of the EFF. http://www.farcaster.com/sterling/part4.htm
Extractions: The story of the Hacker Crackdown, as we have followed it thus far, has been technological, subcultural, criminal and legal. The story of the Civil Libertarians, though it partakes of all those other aspects, is profoundly and thoroughly *political.* In 1990, the obscure, long-simmering struggle over the ownership and nature of cyberspace became loudly and irretrievably public. People from some of the oddest corners of American society suddenly found themselves public figures. Some of these people found this situation much more than they had ever bargained for. They backpedalled, and tried to retreat back to the mandarin obscurity of their cozy subcultural niches. This was generally to prove a mistake. But the civil libertarians seized the day in 1990. They found themselves organizing, propagandizing, podium- pounding, persuading, touring, negotiating, posing for publicity photos, submitting to interviews, squinting in the limelight as they tried a tentative, but growingly sophisticated, buck-and-wing upon the public stage. It's not hard to see why the civil libertarians should have this competitive advantage.
Taint.org Irish EFF taint.org Irish EFF . The opinions expressed on this web site are my personal Ireland There s been some discussion about an Irish EFF recently, http://taint.org/2005/08/05/212637a.html
The Electronic Revolution 1970 Expanded Media Editions. Published by Bresche Publikationen Germany. http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/Misc/William_S_Burroughs/electronic_revoluti
HackWire - Hacker News - EFF Fund Rasier @ DefCon on hand as featured guests to hang out with, and pick their brains. Get moredetails at theSummit website. 100% of ticket sales will go to the EFF. http://www.hackwire.com/comments.php?id=183&catid=11
Wired News: Copyright: Your Right Or Theirs? The EFF will argue consumer rights are being slowly eroded with the help of a law meant to build up content distribution on the Internet, as the organization hopes to overturn an injunction against 2600 Magazine. By Brad King. Wired http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41199,00.html
Extractions: by Brad King Also by this reporter 02:00 AM Jan. 19, 2001 PT Consumer rights are being slowly eroded with the help of a law meant to build up content distribution on the Internet. That's the argument the Electronic Frontier Foundation will make on Friday with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, as the organization hopes to overturn an injunction against 2600 Magazine Special Partner Promotion Find local technology jobs The online magazine was ordered by a federal court to stop linking to information that would allow users to circumvent the copy protection on DVDs . According to the EFF's lead council Robin Gross, the implications of the ruling go far beyond this case.
