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The Electronic Frontier Foundation and San Francisco Law Firm Keker and Van Nest filed suit against Apple today in defense of the First Amendment rights of OdioWorks, who runs BluWiki. BluWiki is a website that allows users to build free websites with no advertisements that other people can edit.
The front page states, “Imagine a world where everyone can publish online. Without censoring, popups, or banner ads. And you wouldn’t even have to know html! Thats right, just good old-fashioned publishing.” The parent company was warned by Apple lawyers to remove discussions about making iPods and iPhones interoperate with software other than iTunes.
EFF said that the lawyers “claimed the discussions constituted copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s prohibition on circumventing copy protection measures.” Sam Odio, owner of OdioWorks stated that Apple “should not be able to censor online discussions by making baseless legal threats against services like BluWiki that host the discussions.” The EFF is an international non-profit advocacy group dedicated to preserving free speech.

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