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Seth Johnson | 17 Dec 2003 20:18
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Ben Franklin on DRM


(From the New York GNU/Linux Users Group list)

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Subject: [nylug-talk] Ben Franklin on DRM
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 13:38:50 -0500
From: "Lewis, Todd" <todd.lewis <at> gs.com>
To: 'NYLUG discussion list' <nylug-talk <at> nylug.org>

http://www.ntkmart.co.uk/images/franklin.jpg

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Seth Johnson | 18 Dec 2003 09:04
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Copps Editorial: FCC Threat to the Future of the Internet


(Forwarded from Interesting People list.  Editorial text pasted below.  --
Seth)

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Subject: [IP] Copps Editorial: FCC Threat to the Futureof the Internet
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:41:21 -0500
From: Dave Farber <dave <at> farber.net>
Reply-To: dave <at> farber.net
To: ip <at> v2.listbox.com

Delivered-To: dfarber+ <at> ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 18:36:33 -0500
From: degrke <at> consumer.org
Subject: Copps Editorial: FCC Threat to the Future of the Internet
To: dave <at> farber.net, declan <at> well.com

I thought IP/Politech might be interested in Commissioner Copps' editorial
in Tuesday's San Jose Mercury News.

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/7495091.htm

A new battle is brewing at the Federal Communications Commission. It's about
the future of the Internet. Entrenched interests are threatening open
consumer access to the Net and stifling innovation and competition in the
process.

The Internet was designed to defeat government or business control and to
thwart discrimination against users, ideas or technologies. Intelligence and
control were consciously placed at the ends of a non-discriminatory network.
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Seth Finkelstein | 18 Dec 2003 16:08
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Seth Finkelstein Greplaw Interview (DMCA, censorware, etc.)

Seth Finkelstein on Censorware, Copyright, DMCA, and Blogs
http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/12/16/0526234&mode=nocomment

posted by mpawlo on Tuesday December 16,  <at> 04:28AM
from the interesting-people dept. 

"Seth Finkelstein is Mr Anti-Censorware. The MIT graduate and EFF
Pioneer has devoted his talents into unpaid anti-censorware research.
For good and bad, as it turns out. Finkelstein has not only spent a
great amount of hours fighting censorware, he has also done his best
to fight the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If that's not enough to
get you started - learn why punditry in blogs is not democracy.
Greplaw has picked Finkelstein's brain."

[It's over 6,000 words long. Of course, I think it's well worth
reading. But I'm biased there.]

--

-- 
Seth Finkelstein  Consulting Programmer  sethf <at> sethf.com  http://sethf.com
Anticensorware Investigations - http://sethf.com/anticensorware/
Seth Finkelstein's Infothought blog - http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/
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Seth Johnson | 20 Dec 2003 09:04
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2003 Status from Public Knowledge


Thanks to Gigi, Mike, Sarah, Nathan, Alex and Ann!  :-)

Seth

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Subject: Hollidays
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:19:08 +0000 (UTC)
From: pkadmin <at> publicknowledge.org
To: freinds <at> publicknowledge.org

Dear Friend of Public Knowledge:

2003 has been a breakout year for Public Knowledge and its efforts to
protect your digital rights both in Washington, DC and throughout the US. 
Despite numerous efforts by large media companies to dictate how, where,
when and for how long you can listen to music or view movies and video, PK
and its public interest and industry partners were able to counter them. 
For example:

  * Every attempt by large media companies to convince Congress to pass
legislation limiting the use of computers, "fair use" of media and use of
P2P networks failed.

  * The motion picture industry's efforts to pass "Super DMCA" state laws
that would require the express permission of your cable or internet service
provider every time you wanted to use a specific device were foiled in seven
of nine states.

  * The recording industry agreed that it would no longer ask Congress to
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Seth Johnson | 22 Dec 2003 17:39
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Jon Johansen Acquittal Upheld


> http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=696330

DVD-Jon wins new legal victory

Norway's most famous computer whiz got an early Christmas present on Monday.
An appeals court in Oslo upheld Jon Lech Johansen's earlier acquittal on all
counts of alleged copyright violations.

A verdict in the case, which has caught international attention, wasn't
expected until early January. But the appeals court (Borgarting
lagmannsrett) apparently didn't see any need to wait with its decision.

A panel of judges Monday cast aside the appeal that prosecutors had filed to
a lower court decision handed down in January. That means the lower court's
decision will stand, at least until another eventual appeal takes the case
to Norway's supreme court.

The lower court had ruled that Johansen, now 20, did nothing illegal when he
helped crack DVD copy protection codes in 1999 and then publicized how he
did it. The prosecution had sought a suspended jail term, confiscation of
his computer equipment and a fine of NOK 20,000 (less than USD 3,000).

Prosecutors had put Johansen back on trial earlier this month for his role
in creating a software solution that removes copy protection from DVD films.
He was dubbed "DVD-Jon" after he helped crack the copy protection code as a
teenager and then published it on the Internet.

He became an instant hero to those who finally could watch DVD films on
their computers instead of being forced to buy expensive DVD players, but he
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Seth Johnson | 23 Dec 2003 18:21
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Fwd: [Random-bits] WIPO to begin preliminary examination system that will assess compliance with "main patentability criteria"


-----Original Message-----
From: James Love <james.love <at> cptech.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 08:17:14 -0500
Subject: [Random-bits] WIPO to begin preliminary examination system 
that will assess compliance with "main patentability criteria"

I believe this is a significant step, as WIPO begins exaimination of 
patents for complaince of "main patentability criteria."   jamie

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WIPO says,"growing momentum to develop more efficient worldwide patent
systems. . . prompted the reform drive by the various stakeholders in
their endeavor to develop an international system that is accessible,
fair and balanced."

*  "A new enhanced search and examination system providing an
international search and opinion on compliance with *main patentability
criteria* will be available very early in the procedure;"  [emphasis
added]

*  "Centralized availability to third parties of international
preliminary examination reports (past, present and future cases)
through
a request to WIPO."

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Subject: WIPO/PR/2003/372: PCT Reforms Kick In on New Year's Day
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:25:47 +0100 (CET)
From: publicinf <at> wipo.int
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Seth Johnson | 29 Dec 2003 02:22
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The IT Industry is Shifting away from Microsoft


(Forwarded from OpenOffice Marketing list.  Pretty interesting article 
describing the contours of a massive tectonic shift Microsoft is going 
through.  Article text pasted below -- Seth)

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Charles <byte <at> bytebot.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 06:55:04 +0800
Subject: [Marketing] The IT Industry is Shifting away from Microsoft

Nice read, OpenOffice.org get's a few notable mentions:

	http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13350

In response to OOo:
"Then it came out with a 'student and teacher' version of Office. Hint
to the readership, if you don't want to pay $500 for office, the new
version doesn't make you prove you a student or a teacher like the last
one."

Fun reading!
--

-- 
Colin Charles, byte <at> aeon.com.my
OpenOffice.org Unofficial FAQ:
http://www.bytebot.net/openoffice/faq.html

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Andy Green | 19 Dec 2003 18:04
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Re: [DMCA_Discuss] Seth Finkelstein Greplaw Interview (DMCA, censorware, etc.)


On Thursday 18 December 2003 15:08, Seth Finkelstein wrote:
> Seth Finkelstein on Censorware, Copyright, DMCA, and Blogs
> http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/12/16/0526234&mode=nocomment
>
> posted by mpawlo on Tuesday December 16,  <at> 04:28AM
> from the interesting-people dept.
>
> "Seth Finkelstein is Mr Anti-Censorware. The MIT graduate and EFF
> Pioneer has devoted his talents into unpaid anti-censorware research.

Really good interview.

> Especially here, as I've seen a great deal of very odd double-think, 
> which simultaneously holds that censorship can't work for governments, 
> yet such control is cheap and easy and readily available for parents. 

To be fair, as a father of two daughters, one 13, censorship and context 
creation is a duty.  Children are on a journey from being dependents to being 
adults, as they go through the shades of grey it is the job of the parents to 
be the tour guide and sometimes the dictator.  At the end of the road the 
blinkers are fully off and they control their own knowledge, that's clear.  
But through the journey from a babe in arms to an adult the full raw feed can 
only do harm, since, for example in the case of advertisments, the siren 
voice is coming from those whose only desire is to control.  Censorship is 
one thing, control of the context is another.

> It's borderline. As any sort of influence platform, it's pretty much 
> a failure. While some people might be
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