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About Us:

The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse collects and analyzes legal complaints about online activity, helping Internet users to know their rights and understand the law. Chilling Effects welcomes submission of letters from individuals and from Internet service providers and hosts. These submissions enable us to study the prevalence of legal threats and allow Internet users to see the source of content removals.

Chilling Effects aims to support lawful online activity against the chill of unwarranted legal threats. We are excited about the new opportunities the Internet offers individuals to express their views, parody politicians, celebrate favorite stars, or criticize businesses, but concerned that not everyone feels the same way. Study to date suggests that cease and desist letters often silence Internet users, whether or not their claims have legal merit. The Chilling Effects project seeks to document that "chill" and inform C&D recipients of their legal rights in response.

The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse is a unique collaboration among law school clinics and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Conceived and developed at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society by Berkman Fellow Wendy Seltzer, the project is now supported by clinical programs at Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics, and the EFF.

The participating clinics are listed below, with the topic areas for which each has primary responsibility. We appreciate the hard work of these organizations, their directors, professors, and law students.

See below to contact the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse.
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Berkman Center for Internet & Society

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/

Topic Areas: ACPA, Domain Names and Trademarks, Trademark, UDRP

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Wendy Seltzer, Chilling Effects Project Leader
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Diane Cabell, Berkman Fellow

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DePaul University College of Law
DePaul University College of Law

http://www.law.depaul.edu/institutes_centers/ciplit/

Topic Areas:

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Barbara Bressler

Participants

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation

http://www.eff.org/

Topic Areas: Linking

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barak
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Cindy Cohn
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Allison Navone

Participants

EFF's work on the Chilling Effects Project is supported by the San Francisco Foundation. The San Francisco Foundation

George Washington University Law School
George Washington University Law School

http://www.law.gwu.edu/

Topic Areas: Copyright and Fair Use

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Dawn Nunziato

Participants

Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic
Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic

http://www.samuelsonclinic.org/

Topic Areas: Anticircumvention (DMCA), DMCA Safe Harbor, Reverse Engineering

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Jack Lerner
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Laura Quilter
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Jason Schultz
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Jennifer Urban

Participants

Santa Clara University School of Law High Tech Law Institute
Santa Clara University School of Law High Tech Law Institute

http://hightechlaw.scu.edu/

Topic Areas: Trade Secret

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santaclaralaw
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Alexa Horne

Participants

Stanford Center for Internet & Society
Stanford Center for Internet & Society

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/

Topic Areas: Derivative Works, Fan Fiction, John Doe Anonymity, Piracy or Copyright Infringement

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Jennifer Granick

Participants

University of Maine School of Law
University of Maine School of Law

http://tlc.usm.maine.edu/

Topic Areas: E-Commerce Patents, Patent

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Rita Heimes

Participants

USF Law School - IIP Justice Project
USF Law School - IIP Justice Project

http://www.internetjustice.org/

Topic Areas: Copyright, Defamation, Documenting Your Domain Defense, Protest, Parody and Criticism Sites

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Jennifer Dupre
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Jonathan Kerry-Tyerman
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Robert Talbot

Participants

Contact Us:

Please send your inquiry to one (and only one) of the addresses below.

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Add scanned images or comment to a Cease and Desist Notice you have entered in the database: notices@chillingeffects.org (please reference the NoticeID in the subject line)
You may also send notices by fax or mail:

Fax: +1 415 436 9993
eFax: +1 413 702 3884

Postal Address:
Chilling Effects
Electronic Frontier Foundation
454 Shotwell Street
San Francisco CA 94110-1914 USA

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Send us a news update: news@chillingeffects.org
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Report a technical problem with the website: webmaster@chillingeffects.org
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Correct personally identifying information: privacy@chillingeffects.org
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Other Questions: questions@chillingeffects.org
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Press Inquiries: Wendy Seltzer wendy@seltzer.com +1.914.374.0613

Clinics at other law schools are invited to join the project. Please contact Wendy Seltzer, wendy@seltzer.com for more information about getting involved.
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