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Forwarded from the NINCH list. Apologies for any duplication. >>> NINCH-ANNOUNCE <[log in to unmask]> 8/10/01 11:34:52 AM >>> NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community 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 =========== "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?" -- ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). The subjects of announcements are not the projects of NINCH, unless otherwise noted; neither does NINCH necessarily endorse the subjects of announcements. We attempt to credit all re-distributed news and announcements and appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]