Publications

A multi-year legal campaign by academic and scientific publishers continued in 2020 with a lawsuit filed at the High Court in Delhi. Once again the target was Sci-Hub and site founder Alexandra Elbakyan, and by naming local ISPs as defendants, Else...

Police in Northern Ireland continue to withhold a Troubles-era report by an MI5 veteran despite his dispatches from other countries being made public. Counter-insurgency expert Jack Morton authored a landmark review of the Royal Ulster Constabulary’s...

Earlier this month, we reported that a screener copy of In the Hands of Dante had leaked online from an unknown source. The unreleased Julian Schnabel film, featuring a star cast, is officially set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival next month...

The UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) claims to protect children but has faced fierce criticism for censoring everything from legitimate news reporting from war zones, to critical discussion of the Act itself. There are many problems, not least a requir...

The Online Copyright Infringement Tracker (OCI) has provided data on piracy carried out online for more than a decade. After publication of Wave 12 in 2022, there was no report covering 2023. The latest Wave 13 edition covers online infringement in 2...

Dear Friend of Press Freedom, For 150 days, Rümeysa Öztürk has faced deportation by the United States government for writing an op-ed it didn’t like, and for 69 days, Mario Guevara has been imprisoned for covering a protest. Read on for more, and c...

Late last year, the European Union Intellectual Property Office released its latest copyright infringement monitor report. The research is part of a recurring series that has tracked European piracy rates since 2017. Among other things, the data help...

EFF legal intern Noam Shemtov was the principal author of this post. When police have a warrant to search a phone, should they be able to see everything on the phone—from family photos to communications with your doctor to everywhere you’ve been sinc...

Sports streaming services are popular worldwide, with different regions having their local favorites. In Latin America, the Magis TV brand is particularly popular but another name also popped up more frequently: ‘Al Ángulo TV’. Al Ángulo was availabl...

When Israel assassinated Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif earlier this month, the Reuters news agency ran a report titled: “Israel kills Al Jazeera journalist it says was Hamas leader”. They chose that headline despite the fact al-Sharif used to...