[dvd-announce] 2600 Magazine files for rehearing

[Wendy Seltzer <wendy@seltzer.com>]

2600 Magazine asked the full Second Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the 
November decision of a three-judge panel because the opinion conflicts with 
Supreme Court precedent in a case of exceptional importance.

  "Free speech principles should turn not upon newly minted distinctions 
between pen-and-ink and point-and-click," lawyers from the EFF and Stanford 
Law School Dean Kathleen M. Sullivan argue.  Instead, speech on the 
Internet demands the same high level of protection as off-line 
speech.  Further, the linking injunction saps the "lifeblood of the 
Internet" without adequate justification.

Newsbytes article:
<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173635.html>
Petition for rehearing:
<http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20020114_ny_2600_appeal.html>
EFF press release:
<http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20020114_ny_eff_pr.html>

--Wendy
Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.com
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
Openlaw - DVD: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/