EFF and Stanford Center for Internet and Society to File Suit Against Diebold

As Diebold invokes the Digital Millennium Copyright Act against students and others who have posted on their websites correspondence linking the company to the Republican Party, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Stanford's Center for Internet and Society plan to answer with a suit of their own, as reported on CNet. Berkman Fellow Wendy Seltzer, an EFF staff attorney, notes in the article that the documents are part of political debate. The posting thereof is fair use, meeting the four-factor test, and therefore legal. Executive Director John Palfrey is also quoted on the issue in an article appearing in PC World and elsewhere. For more on this suit, see the CIS blog, the EFF's press release, and Copyfight.