See Politech Sklyarov archive: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=sklyarov --- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51460,00.html Adobe-Hack Lawyers: Toss the Case By Farhad Manjoo 1:00 p.m. April 1, 2002 PST SAN JOSE -- A Russian company accused of criminal copyright violations argued in federal court on Monday that the law it's accused of breaching, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, is both unconstitutionally vague and restricts free speech. Attorneys for Elcomsoft asked U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte to dismiss U.S. v. Elcomsoft, the case that began last July with the arrest of the Russian programmer Dmitri Sklyarov. The attorneys claim the company's software enables "fair use" rights of copyrighted materials -- rights that the Constitution protects. But the government argued that Elcomsoft's fair use arguments were a "red herring," and that there was nothing vague about the DMCA's restrictions of software like Elcomsoft's Advanced eBook Processor. The program allows owners of Adobe e-books to convert their e-books from the Adobe format to a less-restrictive format. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politech dinner in SF on 4/16: http://www.politechbot.com/events/cfp2002/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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