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Press Release | August 24, 2004

Music Publisher Settles Copyright Skirmish Over Guthrie Classic

EFF Believes "This Land Is Your Land" Belongs to You and Me San Francisco - Music publisher Ludlow Music, Inc., has officially backed down on its threats against web animation studio JibJab Media Inc. over the widely circulated "This Land" animated parody lampooning President Bush and Senator Kerry. JibJab had...

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Press Release | August 20, 2004

ID Checks at Airports Violate Fourth Amendment

EFF Protests Anti-Privacy Ruling in Appeal to the Ninth Circuit California - US citizens may no longer have the right to travel without being searched. So says the District Court for the Northern District of California, which recently dismissed a case that questioned whether it is constitutional for airport security...

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Press Release | August 19, 2004

EFF Scores Landmark Win for P2P

Ninth Circuit Declares Grokster, Morpheus Not Liable for Infringement California - Today the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals made a crucial decision (PDF) in support of technology innovators by declaring that distributors of the peer-to-peer software Grokster and Morpheus cannot be held liable for the infringing activities of their...

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Press Release | August 13, 2004

Texas Secretary of State Backs Down

Agrees to Postpone Closed Voting Examiner Meetings in Face of ACLU Lawsuit Austin, TX - The Texas Secretary of State today agreed to indefinitely postpone a meeting of the state's voting examiners following the filing of a lawsuit by the ACLU of Texas and a Texas voter. The Electronic Frontier...

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Press Release | August 12, 2004

EFF Welcomes Four New Hires

Organization Grows with Addition of Attorneys, Technical, and Membership Staff San Francisco, CA - Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced the addition of four new staff members. Kurt Opsahl and Matt Zimmerman join the legal team as staff attorneys, while systems administrator Matt Peterson brings expertise to the technical team...

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Press Release | August 12, 2004

Credit Card Companies Cannot Be Held Liable for Customer Infringements

California - In a ruling the Electronic Frontier Foundation hailed as a step forward, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled today that Visa and several other credit card companies would not be held liable for the copyright infringements of its business customers...

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Press Release | August 10, 2004

Sunshine Sought for Texas Election Systems Examiners

Lawsuit Attacks Secrecy of Meetings Where E-voting Machines Are Evaluated Austin, TX - The ACLU of Texas and a Texas voter today filed a lawsuit demanding that the meetings of the state's voting examiners be held in public. The voting examiners are responsible for studying electronic voting machines and other...

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Press Release | August 9, 2004

Maryland E-Voting Suit Pushes to Decertify Diebold Machines

EFF and National Voter Rights Organizations Support Appeal to State's Highest Court Maryland - Lawyers representing eight Maryland citizens today filed a petition with the state supreme court seeking to decertify or fix Diebold voting machines that computer security experts have deemed insecure. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), working with...

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Press Releases: August 2004

Music Publisher Settles Copyright Skirmish Over Guthrie Classic

ID Checks at Airports Violate Fourth Amendment

EFF Scores Landmark Win for P2P

Texas Secretary of State Backs Down

EFF Welcomes Four New Hires

Credit Card Companies Cannot Be Held Liable for Customer Infringements

Sunshine Sought for Texas Election Systems Examiners

Maryland E-Voting Suit Pushes to Decertify Diebold Machines

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