California Supreme Court Upholds Free Speech in DVD Case
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Cali Supreme Court upholding free speech in DVD case:
bq. The California Supreme Court ruled today that publication of information regarding the decoding of DVDs merits a strong level of protection as free speech and sent a key case back to a lower court for a decision on whether a court can prevent Andrew Bunner from publishing this information, whether on the Internet, on a T-shirt, or elsewhere.
The DVD industry consortium, DVD Copy Control Association, has insisted that DeCSS, an algorithm for unlocking DVDs, was a "trade secret". The algorithm has been widely distributed, on Websites, on T-shirts, and even in songs, making its "trade secret" status suspect.
Posted by johndan at August 28, 2003 06:48 PM
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