[sklyarov-chicago] Chicago Update: from the legal point of view...

[Peter A. Peterson II]

Hi all,

I have a friend who is currently in law school and is sympathetic to
Dmitry's cause as well as being anti-DMCA. He sent along some documents
that I don't have time to read right now, but I thought I'd pass them
along. If you think they're useful, I encourage you to use them (or
contact the authors and use them) in defining your position and/or
creating literature to use in your further protests.

They are available at:

http://two-bit.ufo.chicago.il.us/free-sklyarov/

Free Dmitry,

pedro


----- Forwarded message from "Werling, Kristian" <Werling.Kristian@rosshardies.com> ----
Pete-

I dug up two articles from an online legal service about copyrights in
general and the DMCA.  The DMCA article is by Barb Samuelson, a leading IP
and DMCA expert.  These articles are from law reviews which are generally
pretty technical legal writing.  They aren't a really good short
introduction, but it's the best I could come up with for now.

I had a great professor this past semester in a class called "Cyberlaw."  We
spent a good bit of time on the DMCA and its negative aspects.  I e-mailed
the prof to ask him about good intros for a layperson to both copyright and
the DMCA.  Hopefully he can point out something good.

Feel free to forward those articles to whoever, I didn't know if you would
want to throw them out on the mailing list or not.  

Keep up the good work.  Some interesting conversation on the list.  I'm
enjoying it.

Krist

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