The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) is a lobbying platform for open standards in the Information Technology sector.
Headlines
- Canadian Patents Appeal Board throws out business methods (Jul 13th, 2009)
- German anti-censorship petition hits 100'000 signers (Jun 4th, 2009)
- IBM speaks out against software patents (Jun 4th, 2009)
- EU commission takes another shot at software patents (May 13th, 2009)
- An attempt at forbidding «hacker tools» in Switzerland (May 6th, 2009)
- German petition against Internet censorship attracts attention (May 6th, 2009)
- OOXML: ECMA comments published (January 18th, 2008)
- Amazon One-Click Patent invalidated (December 11th, 2007)
- Germany: Data Retention only until the end of the contract (December 9th, 2007)
- OpenISO website launched (December 6th, 2007)
- EU-EPLA: Zypries and her Technical Judges against the principles of Democracy (December 3rd, 2007)
- IPRED2: A sign of lack of harmonization inside the EU? (December 3rd, 2007)
- OOXML: an obstacle to accessibility? (November 30th, 2007)
- US Aid offering cheap monopolist products to the third world (November 22nd, 2007)
- John Tehranian: No life without IPR infringement (November 22nd, 2007)
- Data Retention in Germany adopted (Nov 9, 2007)
- Patents threaten 802.11n standard (Oct 3, 2007)
- No Linux support for the EU Council? (January 3rd, 2007)
What we do
Most FFII members and supporters are independent software developers, patent experts, and academics who have studied the legal frameworks of property and other rights and understand their strengths and weaknesses. We monitor proposals for new laws and treaties that affect the IT sector, and we analyse these proposals and prepare responses. We research the consequences of the proposals in particular areas, and we collect results from studies conducted around the world. We make our research available to industry, to politicians, and to academia. We alert people to problems that may not yet be visible to all. We define policies. We organise conferences, meetings, reports. We work with politicians to build better laws.