Corynne McSherry

3 days ago | eff.org | Corynne McSherry |Cory Doctorow

We’re in the midst of a long-overdue resurgence in antitrust litigation. In the past 12 months alone, there have been three landmark rulings against Google/Alphabet (in search, advertising, and payments). Then there’s the long-running FTC v. Meta case, which went to trial last week. Plenty of people are cheering these cases on, seeing them as a victories over the tech broligarchy (who doesn’t love to see a broligarch get their comeuppance?).

Dec 27, 2024 | eff.org | Corynne McSherry

The phrase “move fast and break things” carries pretty negative connotations in these days of (Big) techlash. So it’s surprising that state and federal policymakers are doing just that with the latest big issue in tech and the public consciousness: generative AI, or more specifically its uses to generate deepfakes. Creators of all kinds are expressing a lot of anxiety around the use of generative artificial intelligence, some of it justified.

Dec 20, 2024 | eff.org | Corynne McSherry

A federal appeals court just gave software developers, and users, an early holiday present, holding that software updates aren’t necessarily “derivative,” for purposes of copyright law, just because they are designed to interoperate the software they update. This sounds kind of obscure, so let’s cut through the legalese. Lots of developers build software designed to interoperate with preexisting works.

Dec 19, 2024 | eff.org | Corynne McSherry

Some people just can’t take a hint. Today’s perfect example is a group of independent movie distributors that have repeatedly tried, and failed, to force Reddit to give up the IP addresses of several users who posted about downloading movies.

Oct 16, 2024 | eff.org | Corynne McSherry

Some people just don’t know how to take a hint. For more than a decade, giant standards-development organizations (SDOs) have been fighting in courts around the country, trying use copyright law to control access to other laws. They claim that that they own the copyright in the text of some of the most important regulations in the country – the codes that protect product, building and environmental safety--and that they have the right to control access to those laws.