More on the Elcomsoft case....The jury said not guilty. Making a product with both legal and illegal uses only violates the DMCA if the maker intended to violate the law. (PS: This is a good day for everything with a legal and illegal use, from personal computers to crowbars. Also a good day for fair use and other ways of abiding by the law. It's at least as important to shield lawful acts from liability as it is to punish unlawful ones. I don't know how much this verdict will stop other aggressive prosecutions under the DMCA. But I'm sure that the opposite verdict would have encouraged them.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/17/2002 02:38:00 PM.
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.
