Music industry now wants to be paid public performance royalties for ringtones

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is pushing to receive royalties for ringtones played in public. ASCAP claims that ringtones that sounds in public constitutes a public performance, a categorization that is beyond the purchased ... continue

The EFF tracks companies and their changing TOS agreements

The one document that just about everyone dreads reading, and most don’t, has to be the Terms of Service (TOS) that we have to agree to before using their services. Even when we get ... continue

EFF Sues Bush, Cheney, NSA on Surveillance

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies on behalf of AT&T customers to stop what it alleges as illegal, unconstitutional, and ongoing dragnet surveillance of ... continue