Press release: http://www.321studios.com/PR_complaint.htm Complaint: http://www.321studios.com/complaint.pdf Slashdot thread: http://slashdot.org/yro/02/04/23/1944249.shtml?tid=123 Here's an article: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-889455.html The suit was filed by Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco, a law firm that is representing Elcomsoft in the Sklyarov DMCA case. (http://www.kvn.com/art12.html) Excerpts from complaint: >Plaintiff 321 Studios seeks declaratory judgment from this Court stating >that its activities in distributing DVD Copy Plus do not violate the >provisions of the DMCA or, in the alternative, that these provisions are >invalid in light of other copyright law provisions, the distribution of >DVD Copy Plus falls within the Fair Use exception to these provisions, >these provisions are invalid because Congress exceeded its enumerated >powers under Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution, these >provisions are unconstitutionally vague, or these provisions violate First >Amendment of the Constitution. > >Plaintiff 321 Studios seeks declaratory judgment from this Court stating >that its activities in distributing DVD Copy Plus do not violate the >provisions of United States Copyright Act on the grounds that DVD Copy >Plus has substantial non- infringing uses and/or that the use of DVD Copy >Plus constitutes Fair Use, or that the provisions of the Copyright Act, if >interpreted to bar the distribution of DVD Copy Plus, violate the First >Amendment of the Constitution. -Declan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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