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- Pioneer Awards
Honoring leaders on the electronic frontier who are extending freedom and innovation in the realm of information technology. - Cooperative Computing Awards
Encouraging ordinary Internet users to collaborate to solve huge scientific problems.
Legal Cases
Whether defending your rights from attack or seeking front-line justice to establish your rights, EFF battles for digital freedom in the courts. Help us with this important work.
- Capitol v. ThomasLast October, Jammie Thomas was found liable for copyright infringement for file sharing, and hit with a $222,000 judgment. Thomas' case was the first file sharing lawsuit to reach a jury verdict.
- Lenz v. UniversalEFF filed suit against Universal Music Publishing Group, asking a federal court to protect the fair use and free speech rights of a mother who posted a short video of her toddler son dancing to a Prince song on the Internet.
- NSA SpyingCases brought against corporations complicit in the NSA's warrantless surveillance of millions of Americans' private domestic communications.
- SHARK v. PRCAEFF has asked a federal court to protect the free speech rights of an animal welfare group after its video critiques of animal treatment at rodeos were removed from YouTube due to sham copyright claims.
Whitepapers
Our whitepapers reflect the results of EFF's clear thinking on issues at the cutting-edge of law and technology.
- 2008 Best Practices for Online Service Providers
- 2008 Patents and the Public Domain: Improving Patent Quality Upon Reexamination
- 2008 A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing
- 2007 Packet Forgery By ISPs: A Report on the Comcast Affair
