[free-sklyarov] FYI> Digital Millennium Copyright Act Great Debate at Seybold SF 2001

[tom poe]

On Thursday 20 September 2001 09:24, Kurt Foss wrote:
> The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Great Debate at Seybold SF 2001
>
> Seybold has added what could be one of the livelier sessions at this
> fall's conference in San Francisco -- an open summit meeting on
> Wednesday, September 26 from 1:30 to 2:45 p.m. -- to discuss and
> debate the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and
> its implications for publishers, authors, software companies,
> software developers, security professionals and many others who may
> find themselves on one side of the recently enacted, but yet untested
> U.S. law. In addition to a group of panelists representing proponents
> and opponents of the DMCA, Dmitry Sklyarov and Alexander Katalov of
> ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. have tentatively accepted an invitation from
> Planet PDF and Seybold to attend this session -- although they will
> not be able to actively participate due to pending litigation.


Hello:  OK.  The moment is seized!  Here's the BIG PLAN!  The academicians 
among the list are charged with drafting a concise, professional statement.  
Since there is no controversy surrounding the DMCA, simply a need to educate 
the public about this outrageous scam on the masses, this should be an 
opportunity to create a specific document for a specific purpose, and to make 
it available in hard copy to those attendees on the DMCA side.  The opponents 
don't need it.  They will already have printed it from the electronic posting 
beforehand.

There have already been some documents passed along that already state the 
case very well.  Probably a good idea to review them, and decide.  A two or 
three page document is concise.  A one page document is concise if the 
perfect analogy or example of the damage this law has/is/will cause.

Let's make the document draft ready for final comments by 9/21st, and final 
posting by 9/24.  Then, whoever is at the conference can print out a few, and 
have them to hand out.  - - -

Good Plan!  Anyone come across just the right article already?  Maybe from 
eff.org??  Your comments should be directed to this list, as this should be 
the list's best moment.  Your humble, helpful, idiot,    Tom