Subject: Chronicle Colloquy: "Does the Digital Millennium Copyright Act violate the First Amendment and the academic-freedom rights of scholars?"
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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:34:52 -0400
Message-Id: <p05100302b799adc8d0f5@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:34:52 -0400 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> Subject: Chronicle Colloquy: "Does the Digital Millennium Copyright Act violate the First Amendment and the academic-freedom rights of scholars?"
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August 10, 2001
Chronicle of Higher Education
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Does the Digital Millennium Copyright Act violate the First
Amendment and the academic-freedom rights of scholars?
A key subject for us all is addressed in the latest open forum
provided by the Chronicle. Below is the opening question. It is
framed by an article by Andrea L. Foster: "2 Scholars Face Off in
Copyright Clash: Should we protect intellectual property by limiting
the discussion of decryption research?"
http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i48/48a04501.htm
David Green
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"Tne provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was
designed to update copyright law to encourage electronic commerce,
makes it a crime to bypass an encryption device that limits access to
copyrighted material, or to distribute decryption technology. Many
computer-science professors, especially those who work on encryption
issues, believe the provision is being used or could be used to limit
their research and their ability to discuss their research with other
scholars. They are calling for courts to throw out the law as
unconstitutional. Some other scholars, however, say that the law is a
necessary way to protect copyright in the digital age. Does the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act violate the First Amendment and the
academic-freedom rights of scholars?"
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"Tne provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was designed to update copyright law to encourage electronic commerce, makes it a crime to bypass an encryption device that limits access to copyrighted material, or to distribute decryption technology. Many computer-science professors, especially those who work on encryption issues, believe the provision is being used or could be used to limit their research and their ability to discuss their research with other scholars. They are calling for courts to throw out the law as unconstitutional. Some other scholars, however, say that the law is a necessary way to protect copyright in the digital age. Does the Digital Millennium Copyright Act violate the First Amendment and the academic-freedom rights of scholars?"
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