FC: Judge tosses out ACLU lawsuit over DMCA and filtering software

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Wed Apr 09 2003 - 16:35:15 PDT

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    The court order:
    http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/edelman-v-n2h2/order-040703.pdf
    
    >From the archives:
    "New DMCA case: ACLU protects right to study filtering software"
    http://www.politechbot.com/p-03794.html
    
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    http://news.com.com/2100-1025-996245.html
    
       ACLU loses digital copyright battle
       By Declan McCullagh
       April 9, 2003, 3:19 PM PT
    
       WASHINGTON--The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday lost its
       first attempt to challenge a controversial 1998 copyright law.
       
       In a strongly worded decision, a federal judge in Boston dismissed a
       lawsuit aimed at defanging part of the Digital Millennium Copyright
       Act. The ACLU's suit, filed against filtering-software company N2H2
       last July, claims the law unconstitutionally interferes with
       researchers' ability to investigate and evaluate the effectiveness of
       Internet filtering software.
       
       "There is no plausibly protected constitutional interest
       that...outweighs N2H2's right to protect its copyrighted property from
       an invasive and destructive trespass," U.S. District Judge Richard
       Sterns wrote.
    
       [...]
    
    
    
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