Chilling Effects Cease & Desist Clearinghouse

Wendy Seltzer writes: "The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, EFF, and other major law school clinics have launched ChillingEffects.org to combat the chilling effect of Cease & Desist letters with ungrounded legal threats. (Slashdot readers got a site preview in the story on the Bnetd Cease & Desist, already in our database.) If you have received a Cease & Desist, we invite you to add it to the database, where law students will analyze the legalese and annotate the C&Ds with Frequently Asked Questions and answers. The site already offers several sets of general legal FAQs."

Comments

/.'d

[Asikaa]

It's /.'d already. Try Google's cache.

I wonder if EFF et al will be sending /. a Cease & Desist letter for a premeditated DOS attack on their web server? :)

Re:For Senders Too?!

[volsung]

And for the spelling Nazis out there: "intimidate" is the correct spelling.

Re:Off topic but is there a site like this for NDA

[BdosError]

I read of a very good reaction to this: The guy told the company that he couldn't sign it without having it looked over by a lawyer beforehand, and since it was a work requirement, he demanded that the company pre-approve the expense claim for the fees. Never had to sign. And if they do, then you've got a lawyer's read on the form. Win both ways.

Re:Cease and Desist Unauthorized Law Practice?

[Danse]

It'll probably get whacked down by the big boys if it becomes a nuisance. I remember reading a while back about the law firms for some big industry types getting some law passed to prohibit law students from helping low-income families deal with legal paperwork and filings in order to save their homes from being destroyed to make way for factories and industrial plants. The students were making it too easy for the families to fight the big companies, so they just got the practice outlawed. Suddenly the resistance dropped dramatically and they could move in a their leisure.