The fearless folks @ FreeCulture.org have just announced "Barbie-in-a-Blender Day," a unique campaign to support fair use and free expression.
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Mattel isn't a big fan of free speech -- at least not when it applies to their products. So when Utah artist Tom Forsythe took...

Three good pieces on the state of email privacy post-U.S. v. Councilman and the need for an update to "wiretap" laws including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA):
StarTribune.com: "Until Congress updates the laws it wrote when email was still in infancy, users ought to pause...

The RIAA has been touting technologies offered by Audible Magic as the cure for peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing on university campuses. The company has also been making the rounds of congressional offices in Washington, DC, talking up its technologies as a silver bullet for P2P infringement.
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As long as Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) insists on invoking "the children" to push misguided copyright legislation, Ernest Miller will insist on invoking "the pornographers" as its primary beneficiaries.

EFF Board Member Larry Lessig calls the IICA a "lawyer employment act," arguing that it will "force technologists into court before they get to enter the marketplace" and "shift responsibility for striking the balance in copyright law from Congress to unelected federal judges."
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Four quick pointers on the Inducing Infringements of Copyright Act (a.k.a. Induce Act), which by extending copyright liability to those who "induce" infringement would give copyright holders an incredibly powerful tool to hamper the development of technologies like the iPod:

USA Today: "Internet search giants Google and...

The Houston Chronicle has a disturbing-yet-amusing tale of airline security gone awry with a disturbing and not-so-amusing ending: security officials adding an innocent man to the Homeland Security watch list.