Publications

Most prevalent in the movie and TV show sectors, applications for DMCA subpoenas are regularly filed at courts in the United States. Aside from their intended purpose, DMCA subpoenas can provide useful clues about future anti-piracy strategies. Whe...

The frontline of online piracy liability keeps moving, and core internet infrastructure providers are increasingly finding themselves in the crosshairs. In a significant ruling last week, the Paris Judicial Tribunal ordered Cloudflare to actively blo...

When rightsholders feel that conditions are optimal, site-blocking measures are presented to countries as a proportionate, precise, and entirely reasonable response to rampant piracy. Should there be a need for new legislation, care should be taken...

Dear Friend of Press Freedom, Local officials with grudges, cowardly media executives, and MAGAfied regulators are all pushing around the free press. Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) is here to help you push back. Read the latest. Local news fi...

More than a decade ago, Mojang Studios announced that it was working on a Minecraft movie together with Warner Bros. The film had been scheduled for a 2022 release, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic among other factors. Today, ‘A Minecraft...

Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk is quietly transporting fighter jet equipment to Israel, new documents suggest. The information is contained within cargo data reviewed exclusively by Declassified and The Ditch. The data indicates how goods f...

After a decade of focusing efforts overseas, the push for website blocking has landed back on American shores. The fierce backlash against SOPA effectively shelved domestic site blocking initiatives in the U.S., but that hesitation appears to have ev...

Español Technologists play a huge role in building alternative tools and resources when our right to privacy and security are undermined by governments and major corporations. This direct resistance ensures that even in the face of powerful adversa...

NEW YORK—A lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from disclosing tens of millions of Americans’ private, sensitive information to Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) can continue, a federal judge r...

In the race to build the most capable LLMs, several tech companies have sourced copyrighted content for use as training data, without obtaining permission from content owners. Many of those companies are now being sued for alleged copyright infring...