More on the DMCA....The ACLU is in court to overturn parts of the DMCA. The narrow issue is whether Ben Edelman should be allowed to decrypt the blacklist of the N2H2 filtering software, publish the decrypted list, and distribute the decrypting app. Edelman's purpose is to analyze the filtering software for overbreadth and underbreadth. While the DMCA anti-circumvention clause would bar this kind of decryption and analysis, the ACLU believes that the First Amendment protects it. The ACLU is hoping that this case will succeed where other DMCA challenges have failed, because the analysis of filtering software, often used in schools and libraries, serves a more evident public good than many other instances of circumvention.
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.
