{"id":12841,"date":"2010-07-28T09:23:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T07:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=12841"},"modified":"2010-07-28T09:23:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T07:23:29","slug":"eff-big-win-over-dmca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/28\/eff-big-win-over-dmca\/","title":{"rendered":"EFF big win over DMCA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Most of the times, when I donate money, I don’t really expect anything back. \u00a0I don’t see them as an investment to the future of the person or organization, but rather a gratitude and appreciation for the past. \u00a0It was also how I saw my support of Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a> (EFF). \u00a0Today I received a press release from EFF, which made me proud to be a member and also a little extra happy about the money I donated over the last few years. \u00a0It’s a big win over Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which is one law that I never liked too much. \u00a0Here is a quote to get you started:<\/p>\n

San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections for consumers who modify their cell phones and artists who remix videos \u2014 people who, until now, could have been sued for their non-infringing or fair use activities.<\/p>\n

“By granting all of EFF’s applications, the Copyright Office and Librarian of Congress have taken three important steps today to mitigate some of the harms caused by the DMCA,” said Jennifer Granick, EFF’s Civil Liberties Director. “We are thrilled to have helped free jailbreakers, unlockers and vidders from this law’s overbroad reach.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Continue reading the full press release<\/a> and supporting documents.<\/p>\n

As a side note, once again I am amazed at how much influence some American law has on my life, which happens to be far away from the United States territory. \u00a0Being a daily user of many services provided by Americans and from the United States soil, I am impacted by rules and limitations faced by those people who provide those services.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Most of the times, when I donate money, I don’t really expect anything back. \u00a0I don’t see them as an investment to the future of the person or organization, but rather a gratitude and appreciation for the past. \u00a0It was also how I saw my support of Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). \u00a0Today I received a … Continue reading EFF big win over DMCA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[401,2374,1545,577],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-copyright","tag-dmca","tag-eff","tag-law"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28042,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/28\/w3c-standartizes-drm-eff-resigns\/","url_meta":{"origin":12841,"position":0},"title":"W3C Standartizes DRM, EFF Resigns","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has recently voted in favor the DRM standard.\u00a0 Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been fighting against it, now lost, and resigned from the W3C.\u00a0 Read more: It is a tragedy that we will be doing that without our friends at the W3C, and with the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23935,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/21\/automakers-to-gearheads-stop-repairing-cars\/","url_meta":{"origin":12841,"position":1},"title":"Automakers to gearheads: Stop repairing cars","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has caused a lot of grief over the years. \u00a0AutoBlog reports that now car manufacturers are trying to use it to stop people from repairing and tuning their cars: Allowing them to continue to fix their cars has become \"legally problematic,\" according to a written\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11212,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/01\/efforg-needs-more-pr\/","url_meta":{"origin":12841,"position":2},"title":"Eff.org needs more PR","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I've recently made a donation to Eff.org and also bought some stickers from them.\u00a0 Since I put the sticker on my laptop, I am getting this question all the time: \"What is eff.org?\".\u00a0 I even get this question from people who I thought were very familiar with EFF's work. 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