Judge Rules Content Owners Must Consider Fair Use Before Sending Takedowns

A judge’s ruling this week is a major victory for free speech and fair use on the Internet, and will help protect everyone who creates content for the Web. In Lenz v. Universal (aka the “dancing baby” case), Judge Jeremy Fogel held that...

Court Rejects Attempt to Expand the DMCA

Earlier this week a district court dismissed several claims in the case Coupons, Inc. v. Stottlemire, in which EFF had, in March, filed an amicus brief. Coupons offers online coupons that consumers can access and print using software provided by Coupons....

A.P. Biting the Hand That Feeds (Traffic To) Them

Last week, the Associated Press sent the Drudge Retort seven DMCA takedown notices, demanding that the site remove excerpts of AP articles ranging from 33 to 79 words that were linked through to authorized copies of the AP stories.