FC: Ed Felten and researchers sue RIAA, DOJ over right to publish

[Declan McCullagh]

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Background:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=felten
DMCA-related photos:
http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/dmca-appeals-arguments.html
http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/dvd-2600-trial.html
http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/dmca-protest.html
EFF document archive:
http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/Felten_v_RIAA/
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http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,44344,00.html

    Code-Breakers Go to Court
    By Declan McCullagh (declan at wired.com)
    6:22 a.m. June 6, 2001 PDT

    WASHINGTON -- After a team of academics who broke a music-watermarking
    scheme bowed to legal threats from the recording industry and chose
    not to publish their research in April, they vowed to "fight another
    day, in another way."

    On Wednesday, Ed Felten of Princeton University and seven other
    researchers took their fight to a New Jersey federal court in a
    lawsuit asking that they be permitted to disclose their work at a
    security conference this summer.

    Joining them is the Usenix Association, a 26-year-old professional
    organization that has accepted Felten's paper for its 10th security
    symposium in Washington during the week of Aug. 13. The Electronic
    Frontier Foundation is representing the researchers and Usenix.

    In what appears to be the first legal challenge to the Digital
    Millennium Copyright Act's criminal sections, Usenix is asking the
    court to block the Justice Department from prosecuting the conference
    organizers for allowing the paper to be presented.

    [...]




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