Electronic Frontier Foundation
Copyright law is supposed to reward creators. Too often, it’s used to shake down nonprofits even when they didn't post the accused content. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/baseless-copyright-claim-against-web-host-and-why-it-failed
A Baseless Copyright Claim Against a Web Host—and Why It Failed

Higbee & Associates, a law firm known for sending copyright demand letters to website owners, targeted May First Movement Technology, accusing it of infringing a photograph owned by Agence France-Presse (AFP). The claim was baseless. May First didn’t post the photo. It didn’t even own the website where the photo appeared.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Apr 4 at 6:04pmTypefully
Show threadlegocas19h ago
@eff the moment it became a business model was when we lost its value