[free-sklyarov] American Association of Publishers

[Tony Hursh]

At 11:23 PM 7/20/01 -0700, Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org> wrote:

>Larry Blunk writes:
>
> >    The publishers have chimed in with their opinion on Skylarov's
> > arrest and the wonderful DMCA.  I should warn you all -- it's not for 
> the weak
> > of stomach.
> >
> >   http://www.publishers.org/home/press/index.htm
>
>I'd be eager to hear suggestions for an appropriate response.

Their membership list can be found at:
http://www.publishers.org/home/abouta/members.htm

There's a staff email page as well.

Most of the industry heavyweights seem to be members. I wonder how
many of them signed off on Adler and Gwiazdowski's press release? Not
many, I'm guessing.

They really don't have a clue... their home page has language forbidding
electronic transmission, reproduction, or storage in a retrieval system
of any of their content without *prior written permission*. I'm not sure how
they think the Web works, not to mention the local disk cache, caching web
servers, search engines like Google, etc.

Those who visit the site might want to empty their browser cache
afterward, lest the AAP throw you in the pokey (heck, if rot-13
counts as "encryption" now, maybe normal caching of a public web
page counts as "copyright violation"). Perhaps to be on the safe
side one should write Adler and ask for written permission before
visiting the site.


-- Tony

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Tony Hursh			   Department of Computer Science,
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu	     	   Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign