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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: New DMCA case: ACLU protects right to study ffiltering software
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Subject: FC: New DMCA case: ACLU protects right to study filtering software
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ACLU lawsuit targets copyright law
By Declan McCullagh
July 25, 2002, 6:30 AM PT
WASHINGTON--The American Civil Liberties Union plans to file a
lawsuit on Thursday in an attempt to overturn key portions of a
controversial 1998 copyright law.
The suit asks a federal judge to rule that the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA) is so sweeping that it unconstitutionally
interferes with researchers' ability to evaluate the effectiveness
of Internet filtering software.
By suing on behalf of a 22-year-old programmer who's researching
the oft-buggy products, the civil liberties group hopes to prompt
the first ruling that would curtail the DMCA's wide reach.
After the DMCA was used to intimidate Princeton professor Ed
Felten and his colleagues into self-censoring a presentation last
year, the law became an instant magnet for criticism. But so far,
every judge has upheld the DMCA's broad restrictions on the
"circumvention of copyright protection systems."
This case will be different, the ACLU hopes, because it features a
sympathetic plaintiff, Ben Edelman, and because it involves the
socially beneficial act of critiquing software that is frequently
used in public schools and libraries. Edelman had testified as an
expert witness in a case the ACLU brought against a federal law
that compelled public libraries to install filters.
[...]
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