[JaxPM] [NON-PERL] FW: EFFector 14.15: Uproar Around the World over Sklay
rov Arrest; More!
JONES, WILLIAM C
wcjones at exchange.fccj.org
Tue Jul 24 13:07:51 CDT 2001
On the jacksonville-pm-list; Jax.PM'er "JONES, WILLIAM C" <wcjones at exchange.fccj.org> wrote -
I am interested in the groups commenst about the below:
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> From: editors at eff.org
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> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 8:22 AM
> Subject: EFFector 14.15: Uproar Around the World over Sklayrov
> Arrest; More!
>
>
> EFFector Vol. 14, No. 15 July 22, 2001 editor at eff.org
>
> A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424
>
> In the 175th Issue of EFFector (now with over 28,000 subscribers!):
>
> * FBI Arrests Programmer in Las Vegas for eBook Software
> * EFF Statement on the Arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov
> * EFF Letter From Executive Director Shari Steele to Attorney
> General John Ashcroft (July 20, 2001)
> * Respected British Scientist Resigns from US-Based
> Conference-Planning Committee, Citing Fear of Prosecution under
> DMCA
> * Electronic Publishers Coalition Condemns Criminal Use of DMCA
> * Linux Community Joint Statement Against DMCA: Digital Millennium
> Copyright Act Threatens Researchers
> * EFF's Music Share-In in Golden Gate Park, Supporting our Open
> Audio License
> * Join EFF in Fundraising Dinner with Ed Felten, Washington, D.C.,
> Aug. 15.
> * Administrivia
>
> For more information on EFF activities & alerts: http://www.eff.org
>
> To join EFF or make an additional donation:
> http://www.eff.org/support/
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> _________________________________________________________________
>
> FBI Arrests Programmer in Las Vegas for eBook Software;
>
> Russian Distributed Tool that Increases Purchasers' Control of eBooks
>
> Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release
>
> For Immediate Release: July 17, 2001
>
> Contact:
>
> Robin Gross, EFF Staff Attorney,
> robin at eff.org,
> +1 415 436 9333 x209
>
> Will Doherty, EFF Online Activist / Media Relations,
> wild at eff.org,
> +1 415 436 9333 x111
>
> San Francisco - The FBI arrested Russian citizen Dmitry Sklyarov in
> Las Vegas, Nevada, yesterday on charges of distributing a product
> designed to circumvent copyright protection measures. Sklyarov, who
> was in Las Vegas to deliver a lecture on electronic book security,
> allegedly authored a program which permits editing, copying, and
> printing of electronic books by unlocking a proprietary Adobe
> electronic book format. DoJ/US Attorney press release:
> http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/
> 20010717_doj_sklyarov_pr.html
>
> Charged
> in one of the first United States criminal prosecutions under the
> Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), Sklyarov is currently in
> custody in Las Vegas pending transfer to the Northern California US
> Federal District Court. For the full text of the complaint, see:
> http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/20010707_complaint.html
> For more on the DMCA, see:
> http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/
>
> The case involves Advanced eBook Processor (AEBPR), software developed
> by Sklyarov's Russian employer Elcomsoft. According to the company's
> website, the software permits eBook owners to translate from Adobe's
> secure eBook format into the more common Portable Document Format
> (PDF). The company maintains that the software only works on
> legitimately purchased eBooks.
>
> Adobe's eBook format restricts the manner in which a legitimate eBook
> buyer may read, print, back up, and store electronic books. The
> Advanced eBook Processor appears to remove these usage restrictions,
> permitting an eBook consumer to enjoy the ability to move the
> electronic book between computers, make backup copies, and print. Many
> of these personal, non-commercial activities may constitute fair use
> under U.S. copyright law. Of course, the Advanced eBook Processor
> software may also make it easier to infringe copyrights, since eBooks,
> once translated into open formats like PDF, may be distributed in
> illegitimate ways.
>
> Robin Gross, attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF),
> explained, "The U.S. government for the first time is prosecuting a
> programmer for building a tool that may be used for many purposes,
> including those that legitimate purchasers need in order to exercise
> their fair use rights."
>
> Jennifer Granick, Clinical Director at the Stanford Law School Center
> for Internet and Society, commented that "the DMCA says that companies
> can use technology to take away fair use, but programmers can't use
> technology to take fair use back. Now the government is spending
> taxpayer money putting people from other countries in jail to protect
> multinational corporate profits at the expense of free speech."
>
> Alexander Katalov, President and Owner of Elcomsoft, expressed anger
> and disappoint over Sklyarov's arrest: "Dimitry is only one of the
> programmers who worked on this program, so I don't understand why it
> is his sole responsibility. In Russia, we have no law like the DMCA.
> In fact, distributing Adobe's eBook software is illegal in Russia,
> since Russian law requires that the software permit the purchaser to
> make at least one legal copy."
>
> For a copy of the federal complaint against Sklyarov see:
> http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/20010707_complaint.html
>
> For the Department of Justice press release on the case see:
> http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/
> 20010717_doj_sklyarov_pr.html
>
> For information on other DMCA-related cases see:
> http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/
>
> To join the free-sklyarov mailing list, see:
> http://zork.net/mailman/listinfo/free-sklyarov/
>
> Elcomsoft Website:
> http://www.elcomsoft.com/
>
> Two protest sites that are organizing rallies:
> http://www.freesklyarov.org/
> http://www.boycottadobe.org/
> (Note: EFF does not presently endorse an Adobe boycott; we are meeting
> with senior Adobe VPs and legal staff Mon. morning, July 23, and hope
> to convince them to reverse their position on Sklyarov, and urge the
> Dept. of Justice to drop the case and set him free.)
>
> Adobe Systems Inc. Website:
> http://www.adobe.com/
>
> About EFF:
>
> The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties
> organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded
> in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and
> government to support free expression, privacy, and openness in the
> information society. EFF is a member-supported organization and
> maintains one of the most linked-to Web sites in the world:
> http://www.eff.org/
>
> - end -
> _________________________________________________________________
>
>
> EFF Statement on the Arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov
>
> from Executive Director Shari Steele
>
> Once again, the Digital Millineum Copyright Act (DMCA) is proving
> itself to be as harmful to civil liberties as we predicted it would
> be. The latest victim is a Russian programmer named Dmitry Sklyarov,
> who authored a program that permits editing, copying, and printing of
> electronic books by unlocking a proprietary Adobe electronic book
> format.
>
> Mr. Sklyarov has been brought up on criminal charges under the DMCA
> for distributing a product designed to circumvent copyright protection
> measures. This is different than the 2600 and Felten cases, which are
> civil lawsuits. In a civil lawsuit, one private citizen (or company)
> sues another for money and/or the cessation of a particular action. In
> a criminal case, the government brings charges against an individual
> (or company) and the punishment for conviction can be prison and/or
> fines. Info on the 2600 Case:
> http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/MPAA_DVD_cases/
> Info on the Felten case:
> http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/Felten_v_RIAA/
>
> EFF has been in contact with the Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA)'s
> office trying to track Mr. Sklyarov's whereabouts and speak with him
> directly. While the arrest took place in Las Vegas, the complaint was
> executed in San Jose, meaning that Mr. Sklyarov will be sent to
> California to stand trial. We have spoken with his colleagues,
> criminal defense attorneys and others to help with his defense. After
> he arrives in California, our first order of business is to get Mr.
> Sklyarov out of jail on a bond pending his trial. EFF has begun to
> pull together a top-notch legal team to help him defend his right to
> talk about and distribute the Advanced eBook Processor software
> program, and we'll be ready to step in as soon as it is appropriate.
> Full text of the complaint:
> http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/20010707_complaint.html
>
> EFF knew when we took on the 2600 Case over a year ago that fixing the
> DMCA would require several legal challenges. EFF remains committed to
> chipping away at this law until it no longer poses a threat to our
> right to free speech.
>
> Lest anyone be confused, this case is not about copyright
> infringement. Mr. Sklyarov is not accused of infringing anyone's
> copyrights. He is accused of building the Advanced eBook Processor, a
> tool that allows the legitimate purchaser of an e-book to translate it
> from one digital format into another (from Adobe's eBook format into
> Adobe's Portable Document Format). Mr. Sklyarov is not being
> prosecuted for using the tool himself -- in fact, such a prosecution
> would be impossible, since using such a tool (as distinguished from
> building or distributing one) breaks no law. Mr. Sklyarov has entered
> the strange Twilight Zone of the DMCA, where using a tool is legal,
> but building it is a crime.
>
> We invite your support. If you are not yet an EFF member, please join
> with us at http://www.eff.org/support . If you already are a member
> and wish to make a donation, you can use that same link to get to our
> donation page.
>
> Together we will keep the pressure on anyone who chooses to degrade
> our basic rights. Thanks for your help.
>
> Shari Steele, EFF Executive Director
> July 18, 2001
>
> - end -
> _________________________________________________________________
>
>
> EFF Letter From Executive Director Shari Steele
>
> to Attorney General John Ashcroft (July 20, 2001)
>
> Electronic Frontier Foundation
> 454 Shotwell Street
> San Francisco CA 94110
>
> The Honorable John Ashcroft
> Attorney General
> Department of Justice
> 950 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
> Washington, D.C. 20530
>
> July 20, 2001
>
> Dear Attorney General Ashcroft:
>
> At the request of Adobe Corporation, Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested by
> the FBI on July 16th and charged with crimes under the Digital
> Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Mr. Sklyarov is a Russian national
> who came to the United States to deliver an academic presentation on
> his technological innovations. His arrest and subsequent detention
> without bail are shameful and opportunistic actions against an
> individual who was here simply to share his knowledge and technical
> expertise with American scientists.
>
> Dmitry Sklyarov is not accused of any copyright infringement of any
> sort. He is a computer programmer. He stands accused of writing
> software that enables purchasers of electronic books to exercise their
> lawful fair use rights when viewing their eBooks. Such software is
> both legal and required in Russia, where it was written and developed.
> And while the DMCA does not prohibit its use in the US, providing the
> technology is banned under the DMCA. Courts have determined time and
> time again that computer code is creative expression worthy of First
> Amendment protection. Mr. Sklyarov is currently being held captive for
> the content of his ideas that demonstrate the flaws in Adobe's
> software and because he expressed them in the most precise scientific
> language available to his profession, computer code. Mr. Sklyarov's
> right to free expression under the U.S. Constitution and international
> treaty obligations must be respected.
>
> Not only are Dmitry Sklyarov's human and civil rights being abused,
> the inability of programmers to distribute fair use tools infringes on
> the free speech rights of all of citizens who legitimately need them.
> Fair use is an integral part of the bargain of rights struck between
> the public and authors under U.S. copyright law. The U.S. Supreme
> Court has held that fair use provides the necessary breathing room to
> prevent a conflict between copyright and the guarantees of freedom of
> expression under the First Amendment. Although the Constitution
> mandates that copyrighted works pass into the public domain, the DMCA
> has outlawed all tools necessary to gain access to the works, even
> after those works rightfully belong to the public. Technology permits
> publishers to restrict access to and control the use of copyrighted
> works in ways that dangerously exceed the bounds of copyright,
> encroaching upon the public's rights to use and access knowledge.
>
> While copyright holders are not accountable for the manner in which
> they release a work, the people must be permitted to take necessary
> steps in order to exercise their rights under the law. Jailing Dmitry
> Sklyarov strips people everywhere of that right and chills important
> research. The DMCA must be reigned in to comport with the limits set
> by the US Constitution.
>
> When the DMCA was passing through Congress in 1998, the copyright
> industry promised it was needed as a shield for protection. Now as
> law, its used as a powerful sword to squelch speech and competition
> and kill fair use. Congress never intended for the DMCA to destroy
> fair use, in fact it expressly tried to protect it. As Attorney
> General, we ask that you honor this intent and your obligation to
> uphold the Constitution by dropping the charges against Dmitry
> Sklyarov and allowing him to return home to his wife and two small
> children.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Shari Steele
> Executive Director
> Electronic Frontier Foundation
>
> - end -
> _________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Respected British Scientist Resigns from US-Based Conference-Planning
> Committee
>
> Citing Fear of Prosecution under DMCA
>
> UK scientist & programmer Alan Cox, a key member of the USENIX Annual
> Linux Showcase (ALS) planning committee, has resigned in the wake of
> the arrest of DEFCON presenter Dmitry Sklyarov and legal threats
> against USENIX presenter Prof. Edward Felten & colleagues, under the
> questionably-constitutional US "Digital Millennium Copyright Act"
> (DMCA). Cox sent USENIX the following open letter of resignation:
>
> I hereby tender my resignation to the USENIX ALS committee.
>
> With the arrest of Dimitry Sklyarov it has become apparent that it
> is not safe for non-US software engineers to visit the United
> States. While he was undoubtedly chosen for political reasons as a
> Russian it is a good example for the US public that the risk
> extends arbitarily further.
>
> USENIX by its choice of a US location is encouraging other
> programmers, many from Eastern European states hated by the US
> government, to take the same risks. That is something I cannot
> morally be part of. Who will be the next conference speaker slammed
> into a US jail for years for committing no crime? Are USENIX
> prepared to take the chance it will be their speakers?
>
> Until the DMCA mess is resolved I would urge all non-US citizens to
> boycott conferences in the USA and all US conference bodies to hold
> their conferences elsehere.
>
> I appreciate that this problem is not of USENIX making, but it must
> be addressed.
>
> Alan Cox
>
> Similar resignations of non-US members of US conference- and other
> event-planning bodies are increasing, with many more expected. It is
> thus crystal clear that the DMCA is having one of the most palpable
> "chilling effects" in American history on perfectly legal expression.
> EFF remains very concerned about such "secondary effects" of this
> legislation, and is committed to seeing it undone.
>
> [Sources: Linux World News & NewsForge
>
> - end -
> _________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Electronic Publishers Coalition Condemns Criminal Use of DMCA
>
> In stark contrast to a trade association of offline publishers
> (American Assocation of Publishers or AAP), the online e-Book industry
> group Electronic Publishers Association (EPC) sharply attacks the
> prosecution of Dmitry Sklyarov:
>
> For Immediate Release
>
> Contact information:
>
> Connie Foster, eBooksonthe.net, publisher at ebooksonthe.net, +1
> 207-667-6515
> Jon Noring, Blue Glass Publishing, noring at olagrande.net, +1
> 801-253-4037
> Roger Sperberg, Watchung Plaza Books, roger at e-bks.com, +1
> 973-744-7802
> URL: http://www.epccentral.org/dmca.html
>
> While all publishers are concerned about professional copyright
> thieves, the Electronic Publishers Coalition condemns the use of the
> criminal provisions of the DMCA against Dimitry Sklyarov, a Russian
> programmer and cryptanalyst visiting the United States.
>
> "Persecution of an individual shouldn't be any company's response to a
> commercial disagreement, especially regarding copyright," Connie
> Foster, the EPC executive director said Sunday.
>
> "All members of the EPC -- not just a small portion of them as with
> print-oriented groups like the AAP -- work with the Adobe and other
> electronic formats to publish their e-books, and we recognize that the
> same technology that benefits publishers with lower production and
> distribution costs also aids copyright violators."
>
> "We also recognize from our close experience working with electronic
> books, that readers need and deserve greater leeway with the e-books
> they purchase than the current limited DRM and security technology
> provides," Foster stated. (Note: DRM -- for "Digital Rights
> Management", a.k.a. copy prevention -- provides permissions control
> with e-books, disallowing [or permitting] such things as copying text
> to a computer's clipboard, printing of the content, and lending the
> e-book to another computer's reading system.)
>
> Foster continued, "In this case, readers' interests should be
> paramount, and the leading e-book formats -- Adobe's among them --
> slight them by making it impossible to open an e-book when upgrading
> to a new computer or when suffering a number of all-too-common
> computer woes, such as virus infection and hard-disk failure."
>
> "At this point in e-books' development, we think it's just too early
> for companies such as Adobe that have nascent content-delivery systems
> to think they have solved all their problems and to resort to criminal
> charges against a programmer who discovered and discussed serious
> flaws in the program's security structure."
>
> Foster went on to note: "Some people think Adobe has to pursue this
> type of action to reassure publishers their content is safe. But what
> publishers need to know is that Adobe understands the technology and
> its current limits, and the problems with its own software, and that
> it understands what our customers -- that is, readers-- need and what
> the immature e-book industry needs in order to grow."
>
> Sklyarov, a graduate student at Bauman Moscow State Technical
> University, reported at a Las Vegas conference on his research on
> e-book security performed for his dissertation. His research was later
> incorporated into a permissions-removal program called Advanced E-book
> Processor, or AEBPR, by ElcomSoft, a Russian software company that now
> employs him. The program apparently sold fewer than ten copies before
> being pulled from the market at Adobe's insistence. It had not been
> available commercially for more than two weeks before Sklyarov's visit
> to America.
>
> AEBPR allows users to make backups of legally purchased Adobe eBooks
> that ignore the eBooks' restrictions on copying, printing and lending,
> if any, and permit the eBook to be read on a replacement copy of Adobe
> eBook Reader if the initial installation no longer functions or if the
> user upgrades to a new computer. It does not work with eBooks sold to
> another user. Since under Russian law, such backups are mandatory for
> data sellers, Adobe eBooks contravene the law and AEBPR is legal in
> Russia, as well as in Germany and Scandinavia, and other countries.
> Its use in the U.S. is not permitted under the DMCA, the Digital
> Millennium Copyright Act.
>
> The Electronic Publishers Coalition was founded by a group of
> publishers committed to furthering the growth of the e-book community.
> It is the largest trade association of electronic publishers in the
> world. A primary role of the EPC is to follow through on its
> commitment to develop a healthy marketplace for digital content as
> well as to take a leadership role in setting minimum standards in
> order to encourage quality within our industry. The EPC is located on
> the web at:
> http://www.epccentral.org/
> __________________________________________
>
> By way of contrast: Association of American Publishers (AAP) statement
> condoning the vindictive arrest and prosecution of an innocent
> cryptographic researcher:
> http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20010719_aap_sklyerov_pr.html
>
> - end -
> _________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Linux Community Joint Statement Against DMCA:
>
> Digital Millennium Copyright Act Threatens Researchers
>
> Free Speech, Free Sklyarov
>
> A Community Declaration:
>
> Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian academic, has been imprisoned after
> presenting a scientific paper at the DEF CON computer security
> conference. His talk covered the restriction mechanisms used to
> prevent people from reading electronic books. He was formally charged
> with distributing software that could be used to circumvent copy
> protection.
> [See press coverage]
>
> The Digital Millennium Copyright Act attacks freedom of speech and
> assembly and damages the economic health of the United States.
>
> Sklyarov was arrested by the FBI outside his hotel as he prepared to
> go to the airport. The arrest was instigated by Adobe Systems
> Corporation.
>
> It is ironic that a Russian national is being held without bail in the
> US for what is essentially a thoughtcrime. Through the passage of the
> DMCA we have criminalized speech and scientific research about the
> structure of computer programs as well as other simple acts such as
> reading of books and other media.
>
> The DMCA goes far beyond the need to protect from illegal copies of
> books and other media. Since it criminalizes not only the act of
> copying but even development and possession of programs which are
> capable of reading these media for legitimate use. For example, the
> DMCA criminalizes used book stores, in that the DMCA helps publishers
> lock up books so tight that the electronic analog of a used book store
> would be impossible.
>
> This is not the first time that DMCA has been used as a weapon against
> legitimate scientific research. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has
> brought suit on behalf of USENIX and Princeton Professor Edward Felten
> after the Professor and his research team were threatened with DMCA
> prosecution by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
> This threat was delivered after it became known that Professor Felten
> was presenting a paper showing the insecurity of a method of
> protecting music, just as Sklyarov was arrested after presenting a
> similar paper about electronic books.
>
> The DMCA, in spite of its supposed exception, punishes reverse
> engineering. Bans on reverse engineering in the 70s would have made
> the PC revolution (and companies like Compaq, Phoenix and Dell)
> illegal.
>
> The extremism of the DMCA provisions prohibiting research, development
> and publication of tools for distributing and displaying copyrighted
> works must be eliminated. These provisions drop an Iron Curtain on the
> United States of America. It should never be illegal to make or
> discuss such tools.
>
> Noted Signatories (see Other Signatories page:
> http://www.dibona.com/dmca/signers/index.shtml
> for more):
>
> Larry Augustin - CEO and Chairman, VA Linux Systems
> Jeff Bates - Executive Editor, Slashdot.org
> Brian Behlendorf - President, Apache Software Foundation, CTO
> Collab.net
> Chris DiBona - Grant Chair, Linux International
> Miguel Di Icaza - Co-Founder and CTO, Ximian Inc.
> Nat Friedman - Co-Founder and VP Product Development, Ximian Inc.
> Marty Garbus - Attorney, Frankfurt, Garbus, Kurnit, Klein & Selz,
> PC
> Jon "Maddog" Hall - Executive Director, Linux International
> Ed Hernstadt - Attorney, Frankfurt, Garbus, Kurnit, Klein & Selz,
> PC
> Rob Malda - Founder and Editor, Slashdot.org
> Don Marti - Technical Editor, Linux Journal
> Bruce Perens - Primary Author, "The Open Source Definition"
> Eric S. Raymond - President, Open Source Initiative
> Lawrence Rosen - Attorney, Rosenlaw.com and Executive Director,
> Open Source Initiative
> David Sifry - Co-Founder, LinuxCare, Inc.
> Shari Steele - Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
> Brad Templeton - Chairman of the BoardElectronic Frontier
> Foundation
> Linus Torvalds - Lead Kernel Developer, Linux
> Art F. Tyde - CEO, Linuxcare
> Bob Young - Co-Founder and Chairman, Red Hat, Inc.
>
> Care to join them?
>
> Sign your name to this declaration as well:
> http://www.dibona.com/dmca/signup/index.shtml
>
> Press Contacts:
>
> Don Marti dmarti at zgp.org
> Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
> Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
> Chris DiBona chris at dibona.com
>
> Please note that all of the Press Contacts will be available for
> discussion at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference the week of the 22nd
> of July.
>
> Resources:
>
> The EFF page on Sklyarov: http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/
> The EFF page on Edward Felten: http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/
> Felten_v_RIAA/
> The Free-Sklyarov Mailing list: http://zork.net/mailman/listinfo/
> free-sklyarov
>
> - end -
> _________________________________________________________________
>
>
> EFF's Music Share-In in Golden Gate Park
>
> Supporting our Open Audio License
>
> EFF Unplugged: Music Share-In
> Saturday, September 8, 2001
> Stanyan Meadow, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco (Corner of Haight
> and Stanyon)
> 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
>
> The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) would like to invite you to
> participate in an open air concert event for everyone who loves music.
> EFF Unplugged will feature musicians from around the Bay Area
> performing acoustically in Golden Gate Park. Artists participating in
> this event will permit recording of their performances by those in
> attendance in support of EFF's Open Audio License (OAL).
>
> The OAL was developed to help artists share their work with others
> without giving up the recognition they deserve for creating the art.
> Based on the open source and free software initiatives for software
> development, the open audio license encourages artists to share with
> one another and their fans and to build upon the works of others.
>
> Adoption of the OAL does not mean that an artist does not get
> compensated for his or her work. On the contrary--the OAL permits
> artists to share single tracks or performances, with recognition, that
> could lead to sales of additional music. EFF is extremely sensitive to
> supporting new models of music distribution in the digital world that
> see more money going to the artists themselves. One of the great
> qualities of the Internet is that packaging and distributing music,
> which is where most of the money is currently spent by record
> companies, is trivial. EFF is committed to developing tools that
> empower artists to take control over their own art and to be
> compensated appropriately for their works.
>
> EFF believes that many of the laws and technologies being developed
> today to protect intellectual property actually harm the public's
> First Amendment and fair use rights and make criminals of people doing
> perfectly legitimate things. We are striving to help artists realize
> the full potential of the Internet for reaching their fans by
> challenging restrictive laws in courtrooms and through public
> education events, like this one.
>
> In addition to several stages of acoustical music, the Share-In will
> showcase numerous artist booths, where musicians can sell their music
> and merchandise to the public. In addition, there will be booths
> hosted by EFF and outside sponsors, including artists' rights
> organizations and independent labels.
>
> EFF is the leading civil liberties organization working to protect
> rights in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages
> and challenges everyone to support free expression, privacy, and
> openness in the information society. EFF is a member-supported
> organization and maintains one of the most linked-to websites in the
> world at:
> http://www.eff.org/
>
> Information about EFF's Open Audio License is available at:
> http://www.eff.org/IP/Open_licenses/
>
> For more information about participating in EFF's Music Share-In,
> contact:
> Katina Bishop, EFF Director of Education and Offline Activism,
> +1 415-436-9333 x101,
> katina at eff.org
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> Join EFF in Fundraising Dinner with Ed Felten
>
> Washington, D.C., Aug. 15.
>
> Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation in celebration of the
> presentation of Professor Ed Felten's Reading Between the Lines:
> Lessons from the SDMI Challenge at the USENIX Security Symposium on
> August 15th, 2001! Come and meet Professor Felten, his research team,
> and legal team, and support EFF's legal battle to get this paper
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> which includes dinner and wine at the legendary Red Sage restaurant.
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