[dvd-announce] Fwd: FC: DeCSS ruling in DVD case must be reversed, eight amicus briefs say

[Wendy Seltzer <wendy@seltzer.com>]

>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>Subject: FC: DeCSS ruling in DVD case must be reversed, eight amicus briefs
>   say
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>Eight different coalitions -- from cryptographers to journalist groups -- 
>are filing amicus briefs in the DVD/DeCSS case. The briefs -- an unusually 
>high number -- urge that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturn the 
>district court's ruling of last August.
>
>Wired News article on the briefs being filed today:
>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41441,00.html
>
>The journalist/media brief, which focuses on the right to link:
>http://www.politechbot.com/docs/linking-amicus.012601.html
>The computer scientists' brief (the only one filed earlier in the week):
>http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-2600-bac.htm
>
>Photos from trial, protests, anti-DMCA march:
>http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/dvd-2600-trial.html
>http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/2600.html
>http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/dmca-protest.html
>http://www.mccullagh.org/image/950-5/tshirt-cssscramble.html
>
>Other briefs include one by the ACLU, one by the ACM, one by law 
>professors, and one by Ernest Miller, Siva Vaidhyanathan et al. that says 
>"to be governed by the District Court's version of the DMCA is to be 
>stripped of the right to make the valuable fair uses of copyrighted 
>materials upon which new contributions to the field are so often based."
>
>Judge Lewis Kaplan's ruling last August:
>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38287,00.html
>
>EFF is funding 2600 magazine's defense and appeal. The appeal brief to the 
>circuit court, filed last Friday, is here:
>http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20010119_ny_eff_appeal_pressrel. 
>html
>http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20010119_ny_eff_appeal_brief.html
>
>Brief of MPAA member companies is due February 19. Their amici must file a 
>week later.
>
>Some of the briefs, including ones I've perused, are still in draft form. 
>EFF promises to have all of them online shortly. ACLU says their brief -- 
>still in draft form -- will be up on their site by noon.
>
>-Declan
>
>
>
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Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
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