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Re: 2001 Set info
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lugnet.publish
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Sun, 20 Aug 2000 05:43:26 GMT
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Todd - what the judge said appears to be totally useless and irrelevant to
the case that was being judged. I reckon they'll appeal though.
Cheers ...
Geoffrey Hyde
Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:FzKMoI.92M@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Matthew Miller writes:
> > Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> > > It may be and it may not be. Intellectual Property case law is • changing
> > > every day. Months ago, it was not illegal to post links to things
> > > containing illegally obtained information. I seem to remember hearing • or
> > > reading somewhere recently that some court somewhere recently decided • the
> > > opposite.
> >
> > No such decision yet. The DeCSS case is in progress right now, and those • of
> > us who care about freedom of speech and the web in general sure hope • it'll
> > come down the other way. In fact, an important question in that case is
> > whether source code is speech, with the strong implication (from both • the
> > defendants and the court) that if it is decided to be speech (as opposed • to
> > being equivalent to a mechanical device), prohibiting linking runs • against
> > first amendment issues.
>
> James Powell mentioned the bad news already on another thread (or was it
> another sub-branch of this huge thread?), but it bears repeating here for
> posterity...
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> Here's a link to the Slashdot story for those who haven't seen it yet:
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> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/17/1827208
>
> --Todd
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| (...) Yeah. They were actually expecting this ruling. One advantage of having this before the Supreme Court is that any ruling will be effective nationally, not just in New York. (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) James Powell mentioned the bad news already on another thread (or was it another sub-branch of this huge thread?), but it bears repeating here for posterity... Here's a link to the Slashdot story for those who haven't seen it yet: (URL) (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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