FC: California Sup. Court will hear DVDCCA "trade secret" DeCSS case

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[Summary: There are two lawsuits relating to the DeCSS 
DVD-descrambing/copying utility. In the federal one, the Second Circuit 
said the DMCA prohibits 2600 from distributing DeCSS. The state claim is 
being litigated in California by the DVDCCA under state trade secret law. 
Last November, the state appeals court ruled that Californians have a 
"First Amendment right to publish the DeCSS program." I haven't looked into 
this closely, but I suspect that ruling now may be in jeopardy because the 
state supreme court could veer in the opposite direction. --Declan]

Politech archive on DVDCCA lawsuit:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=dvdcca

EFF document archive:
http://www.eff.org/Cases/DVDCCA_case/

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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:49:47 -0800
To: declan () well com
From: David Greene <dgreene () thefirstamendment org>
Subject: review granted in Bunner

Declan:

In case you haven't heard, the California Supreme Court granted review in
DVDCCA v. Bunner yesterday.  The Court of Appeal decision has been vacated.
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