FC: Ed Felten and researchers sue RIAA, DOJ over right to publish

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,44344,00.html

   Code-Breakers Go to Court
   By Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)
   6:22 a.m. June 6, 2001 PDT

   WASHINGTON -- After a team of academics who broke a music-watermarking
   scheme bowed to legal threats from the recording industry and chose
   not to publish their research in April, they vowed to "fight another
   day, in another way."

   On Wednesday, Ed Felten of Princeton University and seven other
   researchers took their fight to a New Jersey federal court in a
   lawsuit asking that they be permitted to disclose their work at a
   security conference this summer.

   Joining them is the Usenix Association, a 26-year-old professional
   organization that has accepted Felten's paper for its 10th security
   symposum in Washington during the week of Aug. 13. The Electronic
   Frontier Foundation is representing the researchers and Usenix.

   In what appears to be the first legal challenge to the Digital
   Millennium Copyright Act's criminal sections, Usenix is asking the
   court to block the Justice Department from prosecuting the conference
   organizers for allowing the paper to be presented.

   [...]




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