Author: JT Smith
Marcia Wilbur writes, “From an email message from Wendy Seltzer (dvd-discuss/openlaw): 2600 Magazine asked the full Second Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse
the
November decision of a three-judge panel because the opinion conflicts
with
Supreme Court precedent in a case of exceptional importance.”
the
November decision of a three-judge panel because the opinion conflicts
with
Supreme Court precedent in a case of exceptional importance.”
“Free speech principles should turn not upon newly minted
distinctions
between pen-and-ink and point-and-click,” lawyers from the EFF and
Stanford
Law School Dean Kathleen M. Sullivan argue. Instead, speech on the
Internet demands the same high level of protection as off-line
speech. Further, the linking injunction saps the “lifeblood of the
Internet” without adequate justification.
Newsbytes article:
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173635.html>
Petition for rehearing:
http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/2002011 4_ny_2600_appeal.html>
EFF press release:
http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/2002011 4_ny_eff_pr.html>”
