Is hyperlinking to decryption software illegal?
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A federal court in New York City has ruled, in a case now being appealed, that DeCSS software, which includes computer code that breaks the encryption scheme of digital video disks (DVD), is not speech of a sort that merits the constitutional protection given to 'pure expression.' The lawsuit was brought by the Motion Picture Assn of America against 2600, a magazine for hackers. Questions abound about what exactly is illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2001
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David and Goliath versus another David
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Software giant, Microsoft Corp. has found itself a surprising ally, director of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, who now heads the W3C. 12 years ago, he asked the head of U.S. patent and trademark office to re-examine a patent granted five years ago, to prevent substantial economic and technical damage to the operation of (the) World Wide Web.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2003
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Eolas Vs web: a small Chicago technology firm beat Microsoft in court, but now it must fight the entire Internet
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ANNOTATION: Websights The Eolas's patent, which gives the one-person company control of a key web browser technology is re-examined by the U.S. Patent Trademark Office (USPTO).
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2004
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