Publications

In December 2020, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted that it had signed a military agreement with the UK. It said British and Israeli military chiefs had agreed to “formalise and enhance the defence partnership and support the growing Israel-UK...

In a legal dispute now at the U.S. Supreme Court, the world’s leading record labels and Cox Communications disagree on many things, including how to respond to online piracy. The labels’ preferred solution is to sever subscribers’ access to the int...

To combat online piracy, copyright holders frequently use DMCA subpoenas to compel service providers to unmask alleged infringers. Because these requests don’t require a judge’s approval and are typically signed off by a court clerk, they offer a swi...

As protesters paint signs for another round of “No Kings” demonstrations this Saturday, journalists are getting ready in their own way: Charging camera batteries, notifying emergency contacts, and rinsing old tear gas off their shatter-resistant gogg...

Dear Friend of Press Freedom, It’s been two weeks since Atlanta journalist Mario Guevara was deported and 207 days since Rümeysa Öztürk was arrested for co-writing an op-ed. Read on for more about this weekend’s planned protests, actions you can take...

In the decade preceding 2023, overseas sales of Japanese content tripled, reaching approximately 5.8 trillion yen or roughly US$38.3 billion at today’s rates. According to the five-year action plan laid out in the 2025 Entertainment and Creative Indu...

If fewer newspapers exist to request public records, does the government become less transparent? That’s the question at the heart of “Dark Deserts,” a new research paper by David Cuillier of the Freedom of Information Project at the Brechner Center...

The Supreme Court case between several major record labels and Cox Communications is a landmark legal battle. The outcome will determine how Internet providers should deal with pirating subscribers on their networks. Should alleged pirates be disconn...

Pro-Israel lobbyist Stuart Polak consulted one of Israel’s top diplomats and a US billionaire about sourcing new funding opportunities, Declassified can reveal. The information comes in an email exchange between Polak and Israel’s then consul general...

NEW YORK—The United Automobile Workers (UAW), Communications Workers of America (CWA), and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed a lawsuit today against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and s...