Victory! Embedded Links to Photos on Instagram Don’t Infringe Photographers’ Copyrights, Court Rules

Every day, we visit websites or read news articles that contain photos embedded from somewhere else, usually other websites or servers where the images were first published or stored. What’s happening behind the scenes when you click on a website...

Dream Job Alert: Senior Fellow for Decentralization at EFF

We have an amazing opportunity to join the EFF team.We are hiring a Senior Fellow of Decentralization, a position that is a public advocate helping to establish EFF as a leader in the civil liberties implications of decentralizing the Internet....

From Bangkok to Burlington — The Public Interest Social Internet

This post will be about two very different social networks: The first is Front Porch Forum, a Vermont-local platform that is “a micro hyperlocal social network,” tied to local services and with a huge percentage of uptake of local users. A caveat...