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EFF and protest rally at DMCA Hearings at Stanford, Thurs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gilmore)
Wed May 17 10:02:41 2000
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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 02:01:16 -0700
From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Media Advisory
DMCA Hearings Held at Stanford University
Copyright Office Testimonies held along with Joint Press Conference and DMCA
Protest Rally
WHO:
Electronic Frontier Foundation, American Library Association, New York
University, California Digital Library, Association of American
Universities, Silicon Valley Linux Users Group, and 2600 Magazine.
WHEN:
Thursday, May 18, 2000
WHAT:
12 Noon - Joint Press Conference in room 280A
(Lunch food provided)
12 Noon - Protest rally of the DMCA held outside law building
2:00 PM - Copyright Office Testimonies begin in rm. 290
WHERE:
Stanford University Law School
Crown Triangle
Stanford, California
WHY:
The Copyright Office is holding public hearings to determine additional
classes of works to exempt from the DMCA's circumvention ban. Concerned
citizens are protesting the overly broad ban that takes away important
individual rights and threatens innovation.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) is the leading
global nonprofit organization linking technical architectures with legal
frameworks to support the rights of individuals in an open society. Founded
in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and government to
support free expression, privacy, and openness in the information society.
EFF is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the
most-linked-to Web sites in the world.
Contacts:
Katina Bishop, Communications Manager, 415.436.9333, x101,
E-mail katina@eff.org
Robin Gross, Staff Attorney, 415.863-5459
E-mail robin@eff.org
For more information on EFF's DMCA archive:
www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/DMCA
For more information on the Copyright Office Hearings:
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/1201/anticirc.html
For more information on the Protest of the DMCA:
http://zgp.org/~dmarti/dmca/
