ADVOCACY, POLICY & NEWS
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2015 AGM
EFA’s 2015 Annual General Meeting will be held on Sunday, 8th November. Full details are available on the 2015 AGM page.
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Final Leaked TPP Text is All That We Feared
Today’s release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement, and dashes the few hopes that we held out that its most onerous provisions wouldn’t survive…
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The internet hasn’t killed privacy – but it has changed it forever
When people say “privacy is dead”, it’s usually for one of two reasons. Either they truly believe that privacy is irrelevant or unachievable in today’s hyper-connected world or, more often, that not enough is being done to protect privacy when huge amounts of personal information are being posted online. Although…
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The Happy Birthday song copyright scam ends
The Happy Birthday song hasn’t been in copyright for generations, and everybody knew it. That didn’t stop Warner Chappell music from running a scam where they extorted “royalties” from movies and restaurants that featured the song, charging less than it would cost anyone to litigate the question. Until, that is,…
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New Open Letter Calls on TPP Negotiators to Stand up for User Safeguards
Copyright restricts all kinds of important, everyday uses of creative works—even worse, these strict rules last nearly two lifetimes for any given work. We are fighting to reform and push back against these restrictions in the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), especially those that undermine the public’s ability to use, research,…
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IETF approves .onion as ‘special purpose domain’
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) recently approved “.onion” as a “special-use” domain. This means, in effect, “.onion” will be treated in the same way .local, .localhost, and .example have been dealt with previously — that is, outside the global Domain Name System (DNS). Adding .onion to the Special-Use Domain…