FC: Judge tosses out ACLU lawsuit over DMCA and filtering software

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

The court order:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/edelman-v-n2h2/order-040703.pdf

> From the archives:
"New DMCA case: ACLU protects right to study filtering software"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03794.html

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http://news.com.com/2100-1025-996245.html

   ACLU loses digital copyright battle
   By Declan McCullagh
   April 9, 2003, 3:19 PM PT

   WASHINGTON--The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday lost its
   first attempt to challenge a controversial 1998 copyright law.
   
   In a strongly worded decision, a federal judge in Boston dismissed a
   lawsuit aimed at defanging part of the Digital Millennium Copyright
   Act. The ACLU's suit, filed against filtering-software company N2H2
   last July, claims the law unconstitutionally interferes with
   researchers' ability to investigate and evaluate the effectiveness of
   Internet filtering software.
   
   "There is no plausibly protected constitutional interest
   that...outweighs N2H2's right to protect its copyrighted property from
   an invasive and destructive trespass," U.S. District Judge Richard
   Sterns wrote.

   [...]



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