p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Coders have rights, too.

Right?

So the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has launched a Coders’ Rights Project  to protect programmers and developers from legal threats which could interference with their cutting-edge research.

And to help promote the project, the foundation is running an ‘EFF Is In’ booth at Black Hat USA 2008 in Las Vegas on August 6 and 7.

There, EFF lawyers will provide legal information on reverse engineering, vulnerability reporting, and copyright law, as well as patent, trade secret, and free speech issues.

Coders’ Rights will provide a front-line defense for coders facing legal challenges for legitimate research activities, states EFF civil iberties director Jennifer Granick, who’s heading up the project.

The project will, “build upon EFF’s long history of work to limit the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) from reaching security and encryption researchers,” says the foundation.

The EFF will also, “expand its involvement in matters involving the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and state computer crime laws,” it says, adding:

“Additionally, [the] EFF has created resources for programmers doing work involving reverse engineering and vulnerability reporting, available at http://eff.org/coders.

Other goals include narrowing computer crime laws and limiting the power of End User License Agreements (EULAs) to protect reverse engineering, reviews, benchmarking, and the consumer’s right to tinker.

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EFF – EFF Launches Coders’ Rights Project at Black Hat Conference, August 6, 2008

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