The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an organization dedicated to protecting the rights of the average user of modern technology from overreaching corporate and government actions. They actively seek to defend us in the courts, provide numerous educational materials to help us know both our rights and our vulnerabilities, and keep us informed about current issues which need attention. It is my opinion that this is one of the single most important organizations of the modern age and a major bulwark against the formation of a Big Brother, Orwellian style government.

Copyright laws in the digital age can be fuzzy at best, with terms such as Fair Use and copyright infringement being tossed around with only a generalized idea of what they actually mean or when they really apply. To combat this, EFF has launched Teaching Copyright, a full curriculum resource for educators to help them provide their students with solid facts about the rights and responsibilities attached to copyright law.