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The Electronic Frontier
Foundation and Cryptome
are collecting many of the key documents in these cases. Here, we try to present an overview of those documents and links to other reference sources useful to the Openlaw/DVD effort. Please suggest additions.
Openlaw/DVD
FAQ
Openlaw roadmap
dvd-discuss archive
dvd-discuss cites
"digital rights management"
DeCSS links
TWiki Collaboration
Eurorights
The Cases
- California: DVD Copy Control Assoc. v. McLaughlin Case No. CV 786804
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Complaint, Dec. 28, 1999
- Order Denying TRO, Dec. 29, 1999
- Preliminary
Injunction Opinion, Jan. 21, 2000
- Appeal Brief, filed with the California Sixth Appellate Court, May 15, 2000 and Reply Brief, July 6, 2000
- Amicus briefs of IEEE and CCIA & ACIS
- Opinion of the Sixth Appellate District reversing preliminary injunction against posting of DeCSS, November 1, 2001.
- California
document archive (EFF)
- New York: Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes 00 Civ. 00277 (LAK) and 2d Cir. 00-9185
(link to full New York document archive)
- Complaint,
Jan. 14, 2000
- Preliminary Injunction, Jan. 20, 2000 (PDF) (HTML)
- Transcript of
Preliminary Injunction Hearing, Jan. 21, 2000
- Amended
Complaint, Jan. 28, 2000
- Preliminary
Injunction Order, Feb. 2, 2000 (PDF)
- Consent Judgment
Against Roman Kazan, March 17, 2000
- Motion to Enjoin
Linking, April 4, 2000
- Defendant's Reply and Supporting Declarations, May 3
- Plaintiffs' Reply, June 2
- Order to Show Cause, May 7, 2000
- Amicus Briefs:
Charles Nesson 5/10, Openlaw Participants 5/30, Karen Coyle 6/1, Siva Vaidhyanathan 6/2, Pamela Samuelson, Yochai Benkler, 6/12
- Defendant's Reply Brief in Support of Motion to Vacate Injunction, June 14, 2000
- Hearing Transcript, June 27, 2000
- Declaration of Michael Shamos, June 30, 2000
- Defendants' Post-Trial Brief and Plaintiffs' Post-Trial Brief, August 8, 2000
Opinion and Final Judgment, August 17, 2000
Second Circuit Opinion, November 28, 2001
- Connecticut: Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Hughes
Case No. 300CV72 RNC
General Reference
Technical Reference
Statutes
Caselaw
- Directory with copies of relevant cases (additions
welcome)
- bibliography on copyright and the
Constitution, developed for the Eldred
v. Reno case
- Sony
v. Universal Studios, holding that devices with "substantial
noninfringing uses" must be
permitted even if the devices (there VCRs) may also be used to infringe
copyright.
- Sony
v. Connectix, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on reverse engineering,
Feb. 10, 2000 ( No. 99-15852 )
- Junger
v. Daley, 6th Circuit on source code as speech, April 4, 2000 ( 2000
FED
App. 0117P )
- Ticketmaster
v. Tickets.com (deep linking permissible "indexing," not trespass)
- Napster motions and declarations
- Finding Caselaw:
Articles
Research
Working Drafts
News and Commentary
- DeCSS makes the funny pages, The Register, March 3, 2001
- Teen-age Norwegian computer geek is a villain to Hollywood, but a hero to hackers, Associated Press, Feb. 26, 2001
- DOJ Backs Movie Studios in DeCSS Case Industry Standard, Feb. 24, 2001
- Online Davids vs. Corporate Goliaths, Amy Harmon, New York Times, August 6, 2000
- News coverage of the trial listed separately here.
- DVDs seen replacing Video cassettes in five years, Reuters, August 3, 2000
- Film piracy rampant on Internet,
experts say, Reuters, August 2, 2000
- Taking the High Road: CSS Issues, Greg Newby, essay, March 27, 2000
- Clash Over DVD Contro
l May Shape How You Use Media, Rita Ciolli, Newsday, July 16, 2000
- Sidebars: Jack Valenti, Eric Corley
- DVD Case Will Test Reach of Digital Copyright Law, Carl S. Kaplan, New York Times, 7/14
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Colored Text, Gray Issue
- There's No Free Hollywood, Jack Valenti, N. Y. Times Op Ed, June 21, 2000 (no endorsement implied); responses, June 25, 2000
- Is Linking Illegal?, Carl S. Kaplan, N. Y. Times, June 16, 2000
- Where We Are All Citizens: Openlaw and DeCSS, Rob Warren, Linuxpower.org, June 5, 2000
- The Coming Storm, Bruce Bell, Freshmeat.net, June 3, 2000
- Beware Our Links to Disorganized Crime, Roger Parloff, Inside Film, June 2, 2000
- FEED Magazine Interview with Martin Garbus, May 2000
- Copyright Clash: Boundaries of Legality, Rob Lemos, ZDNet News, May 17, 2000
- DVD Legal Battles - Suppressing the Better Mousetrap, Allonn Levy, May 3, 2000
- Down by Law, Jeff Howe, Village Voice, May 3, 2000
- DVDs: Cease and DeCSS, Wendy Grossman, Scientific American, May 2000
- First Amendment Lawyer Takes on Movie Studios in DVD Case, Carl S. Kaplan, New York Times, April 28, 2000 (includes a link to 2600.com's catalog of DeCSS mirrors).
- Can
Hyperlinks Be Outlawed? Salon, April 6, 2000
- MPAA
Sues to Stop DeCSS Linking, Andy Patrizio, Wired News, April 4,
2000
- "Tarzan"
DVD forces viewers through a jungle of previews, Greg Sandoval,
CNet News.com, March 2, 2000
- Hollywood's
War on Open Source, Lisa M. Bowman, ZDnet News, Feb. 28, 2000
- Tough
Court Fight Expected Over DVD Code, Carl S. Kaplan, New York
Times, Feb. 11, 2000
- The Copyright Revolution, Julian Dibbell, IntellectualCapital.com, Feb. 3, 2000
- Digital
Copyright Law on Trial, Declan McCullagh, Wired News, Jan. 18,
2000
- Slashdot
on OpenLaw
Feel free to send additional suggestions
to the mailing list dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu or to openlaw@eon.law.harvard.edu.
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