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August 10, 2001
Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/colloquy/
Does the Digital Millennium Copyright Act violate the First
Amendment and the academic-freedom rights of scholars?
A key subject for us all is addressed in the latest open forum
provided by the Chronicle. Below is the opening question. It is
framed by an article by Andrea L. Foster: "2 Scholars Face Off in
Copyright Clash: Should we protect intellectual property by limiting
the discussion of decryption research?"
http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i48/48a04501.htm
David Green
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"Tne provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was
designed to update copyright law to encourage electronic commerce,
makes it a crime to bypass an encryption device that limits access to
copyrighted material, or to distribute decryption technology. Many
computer-science professors, especially those who work on encryption
issues, believe the provision is being used or could be used to limit
their research and their ability to discuss their research with other
scholars. They are calling for courts to throw out the law as
unconstitutional. Some other scholars, however, say that the law is a
necessary way to protect copyright in the digital age. Does the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act violate the First Amendment and the
academic-freedom rights of scholars?"
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