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7/26 AAP
opinion on Sklyarov not shared by publishers
"The Russian
software writer's imprisonment is not an effective way to secure copyrights...
Further, we urge the AAP not to misrepresent its membership by blindly
supporting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act... Left in place, it will
hinder and perhaps prevent the development of a broad e-book marketplace."
7/26 People
for Internet Responsibility (Lauren Weinstein, Peter G. Neumann et al)
"... the continued detention and criminal prosecution of Dmitry
Sklyarov as relates to the current case cannot be justified."
US Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA)
"The arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov under federtal copyright law for the
creation of software that facilitates the exercise of individual fair
use rights is a travesty. I urge his immediate release."
7/23 Adobe,
Electronic Frontier Foundation Call for Release of Sklyarov
"Adobe Systems Incorporated and the Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF) today jointly recommend the release of Russian programmer Dmitry
Sklyarov from federal custody."
7/22 Electronic
Publishers Coalition Condemns Criminal Use of DMCA
"Persecution of an individual shouldn't be any company's response to
a commercial disagreement, especially regarding copyright," Connie Foster,
the EPC executive director said Sunday.
7/18 Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Once again, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) is proving itself
to be as harmful to civil liberties as we predicted it would be... this
case is not about copyright infringement. Mr. Sklyarov is not accused
of infringing anyone's copyrights. He is accused of building... a tool
that allows the legitimate purchaser of an e-book to translate it from
one digital format into another (from Adobe's eBook format into Adobe's
Portable Document Format). Mr. Sklyarov is not being prosecuted for using
the tool himself -- in fact, such a prosecution would be impossible, since
using such a tool (as distinguished from building or distributing one)
breaks no law. Mr. Sklyarov has entered the strange Twilight Zone of the
DMCA, where using a tool is legal, but building it is a crime.
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