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
		http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ Topic Areas: ACPA, Domain Names and Trademarks, Trademark, UDRP Wendy Seltzer, Chilling Effects Project Leader Diane Cabell, Berkman Fellow Participants

		DePaul University College of Law
		http://www.law.depaul.edu/institutes_centers/ciplit/ Topic Areas: Barbara Bressler Participants

		Electronic Frontier Foundation
		http://www.eff.org/ Topic Areas: Linking barak Cindy Cohn Allison Navone Participants EFF's work on the Chilling Effects Project is supported by the San Francisco Foundation.

		George Washington University Law School
		http://www.law.gwu.edu/ Topic Areas: Copyright and Fair Use Dawn Nunziato Participants

		Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic
		http://www.samuelsonclinic.org/ Topic Areas: Anticircumvention (DMCA), DMCA Safe Harbor Provisions, Reverse Engineering Jack Lerner Laura Quilter Jason Schultz Jennifer Urban Participants

		Santa Clara University School of Law High Tech Law Institute
		http://hightechlaw.scu.edu/ Topic Areas: Trade Secret santaclaralaw Alexa Horne Participants

		Stanford Center for Internet & Society
		http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ Topic Areas: Derivative Works, Fan Fiction, John Doe Anonymity, Piracy or Copyright Infringement Jennifer Granick Participants

		University of Maine School of Law
		http://tlc.usm.maine.edu/ Topic Areas: E-Commerce Patents, Patent Rita Heimes Participants

		USF Law School - IIP Justice Project
		http://www.internetjustice.org/ Topic Areas: Copyright, Defamation, Documenting Your Domain Defense, Protest, Parody and Criticism Sites Jennifer Dupre Jonathan Kerry-Tyerman Robert Talbot Participants

Contact Us:

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

• 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
  

• Send us a news update: news@chillingeffects.org

• Report a technical problem with the website: webmaster@chillingeffects.org

• Correct personally identifying information: privacy@chillingeffects.org

• Other Questions: questions@chillingeffects.org

• 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.

Link Us:

Please feel free to link to the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse. If you wish, you may use the following image, linked to the homepage at http://www.chillingeffects.org/: