More on the 2600 DeCSS case....After federal courts at both the district and circuit levels ruled that it could not publish the source code to DeCSS or link to sites that did, 2600 Magazine has decided not to appeal its case to the Supreme Court. The EFF, which represented 2600, says that later cases will be better for testing the constitutionality of the DMCA anti-circumvention clause. Here's the 2600 statement, the EFF press release, and the coverage in CNN/Sci-Tech and the New York Times.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/06/2002 09:54:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
