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Links: EFF Receives $600,000 MacArthur Grant
Posted by Steven Wu on Thursday, January 29 @ 10:00:30 EST News
An EFF press release announces that the EFF has received a $600,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded a $600,000 grant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation to represent the public interest at meetings of the Digital Video Broadcasting Project in Europe where global standards on digital television and other digital data services will be set.

"There are a number of influential members of the entertainment industry that use industry standard setting meetings - such as the Digital Video Broadcasting Project in Europe - as opportunities to mandate technological features that control digital media, such as devices for digital television that limit the user's ability to copy programming for personal use or to skip commercials," said Jonathan F. Fanton, President of the MacArthur Foundation. "By participating in such meetings, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is working to protect the rights of the user and ensure that future uses of technology are not restricted by the industry."

. . . . The Electronic Frontier Foundation will use MacArthur funding to prepare for and attend industry meetings, and to educate the European public and European consumer groups about issues related to digital rights management and intellectual property.

Congratulations are in order.
 
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