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California Sup. Court will hear DVDCCA "trade secret" DeCSS case
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:20:59 -0500
- To: politech@politechbot.com
- Subject: FC: California Sup. Court will hear DVDCCA "trade secret" DeCSS case
- From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
[Summary: There are two lawsuits relating to the DeCSS
DVD-descrambing/copying utility. In the federal one, the Second Circuit
said the DMCA prohibits 2600 from distributing DeCSS. The state claim is
being litigated in California by the DVDCCA under state trade secret law.
Last November, the state appeals court ruled that Californians have a
"First Amendment right to publish the DeCSS program." I haven't looked into
this closely, but I suspect that ruling now may be in jeopardy because the
state supreme court could veer in the opposite direction. --Declan]
Politech archive on DVDCCA lawsuit:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=dvdcca
EFF document archive:
http://www.eff.org/Cases/DVDCCA_case/
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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:49:47 -0800
To: declan@well.com
From: David Greene <dgreene@thefirstamendment.org>
Subject: review granted in Bunner
Declan:
In case you haven't heard, the California Supreme Court granted review in
DVDCCA v. Bunner yesterday. The Court of Appeal decision has been vacated.
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