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- 321 Studios Plays It Safe Against the DMCA - "CNet reports on a request by 321 Studios to have it legally declared that their DVD Copy Plus software doesn't violate the DCMA." Reader discussion. [Slashdot]
slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/23/1944249
- Anti-DMCA Website, The - Information about free speech, the DMCA and you. News, mailing list, cases, quotes, and links.
www.anti-dmca.org
- Digital Future Coalition: DMCA - This site has a nice timeline for the DMCA July 1997 - October 1998
www.dfc.org/dfc1/Active_Issues/graphic/DMCA_index.html
- DMCA Protection at U.S. Border - "U.S. Customs officials have blocked shipments from one of the largest online video game retailers, hoping to stop the import of products that may run afoul of federal copyright protections." By Brad King. [Wired]
www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,50450,00.html
- DMCA Protects AOL From Harlan Ellison Lawsuit - "A federal court ruling last week suggests that copyright owners will find one of computing's oldest peer-to-peer networks, UseNet, much harder to tame than Napster." By Steven Bonisteel. [Newsbytes]
www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175282.html
- DMCA Sucks - Digital Millennium Copyright Act protest site. The first DMCA protest site was set up in April of 2000 after the first DMCA protest in Washington D.C.
www.dmcasucks.org
- EFF "Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)" Archive - Legal documents, releases, and information regarding the DMCA.
www.eff.org/IP/DMCA
- Free Speech, Free Sklyarov, A Community Declaration - A declaration calling for the elimination of DMCA provisions used to attack freedom of speech signed by key people in Free Software and Open Source.
www.dibona.com/dmca
- kuro5hin: DMCA suspends free speech, another way! - Companies are now using the DMCA notice and safe harbor provisions to shut down websites that are critical of them.
www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/9/1/144632/2881
- Legal Protection Turns Service Providers Into Speech Police - Free speech advocates say that the DMCA is an invitation to abuse by powerful copyright holders. [Associated Press]
www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,49699,00.html
- Library of Congress - The library of congress which has the full text of the DMCA. Comments from users to the LOC are available here as well as congressional reports.
www.loc.gov
- MacOPINION: A Copyright Fable - Short fiction about a DMCA future by Marc Zeedar.
www.macopinion.com/columns/tangible/01/08/30
- NewsForge: Does this article violate the DMCA? - Editorial by Grant Gross about how the RIAA's attempt to suppress Professor Felten's SDMI paper uses the DMCA to erode free speech.
www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/08/17/207208&mode=thread
- Open Law - Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. OpenLaw assisted in the DeCSS case against 2600 (NYC) from 2/2000 to present. Many of the OpenLaw participants were active in the Free Dmitry case.
eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw
- Register: Linux Update Withholds Security Info on DMCA Terror - "Citing a controversial U.S. copyright law, a top Linux developer announced this week that Americans would not be given details about the security fixes in an update to the open source operating system, a first for a software development community that prides itself on transparency." By Kevin Poulsen.
www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/22536.html
- Salon: Fingered by the movie cops - Under today's copyright laws, you are guilty until proven innocent. I know -- it happened to me. By Amita Guha.
www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/23/pirate
- Salon: No free speech for animal rights Web sites - A British medical research firm hammers its online opponents, courtesy of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. By Katharine Mieszkowski.
www.salon.com/tech/log/2001/08/31/dmca_animals
- Save Internet Radio - Information for broadcasters, listeners, and press about recommendations of the recent Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel decision concerning royalty rates and recordkeeping. Includes sample letters to elected officials, petition, and related links.
www.saveinternetradio.org
- Slashdot: US Copyright Office Releases DMCA Advisory Report - The US Copyright Office's congressionally-mandated advisory report on the effect of the DMCA is in, and at first glance it doesn't look too good.
slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/30/1312257
- Stop the DMCA Today - What the DMCA is and a petition to eliminate it.
www.stopdmca.com
- Telepolis: The Internet Backlash - With a mixture of technological fixes and legal pressures, large institutions are trying extend copyright protection in order to regain control over the flows of information. By Felix Stalder.
www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9409/1.html
- Time to Rewrite the DMCA - Editorial by Representative Rick Boucher about the DMCA's threat to fair use rights. [CNet]
news.com.com/2010-1078-825335.html
- Upstart Seeks Court OK for DVD Copying - "In a pre-emptive strike to stave off the wrath of the movie industry, a small software company is asking a federal judge for permission to sell and market its product for copying DVDs." By Lisa M. Bowman. [CNet]
news.com.com/2100-1023-889455.html
- What Colleges and Universities Need to Know about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act - A practitioner's journal from 1999 which includes useful information relevant to the DMCA for Colleges and/or Universities.
www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/cem9913.html
- Wired: Copyright Clash Shutters Speech - The law enacted to ensure the protection of intellectual property in the Internet age is being called on in several court battles with free speech advocates. By Brad King.
www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,43475,00.html
- Wired: Dutch Cryptographer Cries Foul - "A Dutch cryptography expert blasted as "horrific" the ambiguous legal reach of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which he feels bars him from publishing his work, even in the Netherlands." By Steve Kettmann.
www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46091,00.html
- Yahoo Groups: DMCA-Minnesota - Minnesota-based organization to free Americans from fear of prosecution under the DMCA.
groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCA-minnesota
- ZDNet: Security experts protest copyright act - Two well-known computer security experts pulled down their works from the Internet this week for fear of being prosecuted under 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act. By Robert Lemos.
www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5096701,00.html
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