Corynne McSherry

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

President Trump’s attack on public broadcasting has attracted plenty of deserved attention, but there’s a far more technical, far more insidious policy change in the offing—one that will take away Americans’ right to unencumbered access to our publicly owned airwaves.

3 weeks 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?).

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

Estamos en medio de un resurgimiento largamente esperado de los litigios antimonopolio. Solo en los últimos 12 meses, se han dictado tres sentencias históricas contra Google/Alphabet (en materia de búsquedas, publicidad y pagos). Además, está el largo caso FTC contra Meta, que llegó a juicio la semana pasada. Muchas personas están aplaudiendo estos casos, ya que los ven como una victoria sobre la «broligarquía» tecnológica (¿a quién no le gusta ver cómo los poderosos reciben su merecido?).

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.