Intellectual Property
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- Copy-control Senator Sleeps While Fair-use Rights Burn
- "Picture a future where distributing Linux is a crime punishable by a hefty fine and a prison sentence. If that sounds ridiculous, then you haven't run into the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act." By Dan Berkes. [Newsforge] (September 22, 2001)
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- SSSCA: The DMCA's Evil Twin Brother
- "The music and recording industry with the help of Senator Fritz Hollings (D - S.C.), the powerful chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, are pressuring Congress to rewrite the copyright laws, in their favor." [Workisa4letterword] (September 10, 2001)
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- Pet Robot Owners Mad at Sony for Challenging Free Software
- "Many owners of the world's most sophisticated robot pet, the cuddly Aibo, are growling at Sony Corp. over its demand that a Web site stop distributing free software that teaches the machine new tricks." By Yuri Kageyama. [Associated Press] (November 07, 2001)
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- Aibo Custom Code Pulled from Website
- "Complaints from Sony have led to the removal from the web of unauthorised computer programs that teach the Aibo robot dog to perform new tricks. However, the move has upset many Aibo enthusiasts." By Will Knight. [New Scientist] (October 30, 2001)
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- Scientology Lawyer Promises to Continue "Appropriate Action"
- Helena Kobrin writes that her firm is merely protecting intellectual property rights. [Linux Journal] (April 17, 2002)
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- MetaFilter Comments
- News brief misascribing cause of removal to "googlebombing", and ensuing reader discussion. (March 20, 2002)
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- Rice University - Save Our Streams
- Information on how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act can jeopardize educational, college and community webcasting.
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- Register: US Courts Kowtow to Entertainment Industry
- News of DeCSS linking case upheld on appeal and the dismissal of Felten v. RIAA. (November 29, 2001)
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- Register: Felten Spills the SDMI Beans
- "Princeton University Professor Edward Felten, who led the team of researchers which successfully cracked the SDMI challenge, delivered his group's findings at the tenth annual USENIX conference in Washington Wednesday, and was not arrested." By Thomas C. Greene. (August 16, 2001)
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- Register: SDMI Crack Team Launches Preemptive Suit
- "The Princeton University team which rose successfully to the SDMI challenge is asking the US District Court in New Jersey to issue a declaratory judgment absolving them of liability before releasing the results of their research into cracking several anti-piracy technologies." By Thomas C. Greene. (June 07, 2001)
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- Register: SDMI Crack Team Scurries Away in Fear Again
- "Princeton University Computer Science Professor Edward Felten, who has credited himself and his team with cracking the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) Public Challenge, has once again wussed-out after threatening to do something frightfully daring like publish the results of his research." By Thomas C. Greene. (April 27, 2001)
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- Register: SDMI Cracks Revealed
- "The academic cracker crew led by Princeton University Computer Science Professor Edward Felten, which answered the HackSDMI public challenge of last September with 'unqualified' results, has received veiled threats of criminal prosecution under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) from the SDMI Foundation in hopes that the team will be cowed into withholding what it's learned from an upcoming computer science conference." By Thomas C. Greene. (April 23, 2001)
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- Register: Prof Hushes SDMI Crack on DMCA Terror
- "Princeton University computer science professor Edward Felten, who has claimed to have helped crack the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) watermark challenge, now says he's withholding the details of his accomplishment on advice of legal counsel fearing he could open himself to prosecution under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)." (January 15, 2001)
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- Register: Uni Team Claims SDMI Cracked, and 'Inherently Vulnerable'
- "SDMI now looks comprehensively hacked, with the release of a report by a group of security and digital watermarking researchers claiming that they successfully beat the Hack SDMI challenge." By John Lettice. (October 24, 2000)
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- Slashdot: Earth to Media: This Kid is Still in Jail
- "26-year-old programmer and encryption gadfly Sklyarov has been languishing in jail for almost two weeks now, and the popular media has paid almost no attention to his truly outrageous arrest." Editorial by Jon Katz and forum.
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- ElcomSoft Squares Up to Feds in Sklyarov Test Case
- "ElcomSoft, the employer of freed Russian software developer Dmitry Sklyarov, and federal authorities have squared up in court for the first time in a case that will challenge America's controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)." By John Leyden. [Register] (April 02, 2002)
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- Case Against Dmitry Sklyarov Dropped
- "Charges against Dmitry Sklyarov were deferred yesterday allowing the Russian programmer to return home after a five-month enforced stay in the US." By John Leyden. [Register] (December 14, 2001)