| Chilling Effects | |
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| Motto | Monitoring the legal climate for Internet activity |
| Formation | 2001 |
| Type | Web site |
| Location | San Francisco, California |
| Official languages | English |
| Founder | Wendy Seltzer |
| Key people | Diane Cabell, Berkman
Fellow DePaul University College of Law EFF George Washington University Law School Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic Santa Clara University, School of Law High Tech Law Institute Stanford Center for Internet & Society University of Maine School of Law USF Law School, IIP Justice Project |
| Website | http://chillingeffects.org/ |
Chilling Effects is a collaborative archive created by several law school clinics and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to protect lawful online activity from legal threats. Its website, Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, allows recipients of cease-and-desist notices to submit them to the site and receive information about their legal rights and responsibilities. It was created by Wendy Seltzer.
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The archive was founded in 2001 by Internet activists who were concerned that the unregulated private practice of sending cease-and-desist letters seemed to be increasing and was having an unstudied but potentially significant "chilling effect" on speech.
The archive got a significant boost when Google began submitting its notices in 2002. Google began to do so in response to the publicity generated when the Church of Scientology convinced Google to remove references and links to the anti-Scientology Web site Operation Clambake in April 2002. The incident inspired vocal Internet users and groups to complain to Google, and the links to the Clambake site were restored. Google subsequently began to contribute its notices to chillingeffects.org, archiving the Scientology complaints and linking to the archive.[1][2]
Since 2002, researchers have been using the clearinghouse to study the use of cease-and-desist letters, primarily looking at DMCA 512 takedown notices, non-DMCA copyright, and trademark claims.[3][4]
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  | Google Begins Making DMCA Takedowns Public - Google Begins Making DMCA Takedowns Public |
| | chillingeffects.org - Chilling Effects Clearinghouse |
| | New Economy; A copyright dispute with the Church of Scientology is forcing Google to do some creative linking - New Economy; A copyright dispute with the Church of Scientology is forcing Google to do some creative linking. - The New York Times |
| | Official site - Chilling Effects Clearinghouse |
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