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 --- 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. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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