Website of the Week

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, http://www.chillingeffects.org/

This website – a joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and University of Maine law school clinics – offers a collection of cease-and-desist notices related to Internet websites and legal analysis of related issues. Among the topics covered are:

• anonymity
• Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
• copyright
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• domain names
• fan fiction
• infringement or piracy
• linking practices and policies
• protest, parody, and criticism sites
• reverse engineering
• trademarks
• uniform domain name dispute resolution

Website administrators are encouraged to submit cease-and-desist notices they send or receive to add to the database.