USA v. ElcomSoft and Dmitry Sklyarov (Society/Issues/Intellectual_Property/Copyrights/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act/USA_v._ElcomSoft_and_Dmitry_Sklyarov)
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USA v. ElcomSoft and Dmitry Sklyarov
Dmitry Sklyarov is a Russian programmer for Elcom. Elcom sells AEBPR (Adobe eBook Processor), a tool to remove restrictions from encrypted PDF files that prevent users from making fair uses, such as reading text with a speechreader, or printing. Sklyarov came to the United States to give a presentation at DefCon, a computer security conference, about weaknesses in Adobe's PDF encryption. At Adobe's behest, the FBI arrested him for violating the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). After protests and public outcry, Adobe publicly recommended Skylarov's release. On 13 December 2001, the charges against Dmitri Sklyarov were dropped, with the condition that he return to testify in the criminal prosecution of his employer, Elcomsoft.Entries
Free Dmitry Sklyarov http://freesklyarov.org/
News, protest photos, links to press coverage, flyers, bumper stickers.
Intellectual Property: DMCA: U.S. v. Elcomsoft http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Elcomsoft/
Archived documents from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Planet eBook: Index of US v. Sklyarov and DMCA-related Articles http://www.planetebook.com/usvsklyarov
Index of US v. Sklyarov and DMCA-related articles and web discussions since ElcomSoft developer Dmitry Sklyarov's arrest for allegedly violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
First Amendment - Void Where Prohibited http://www.visi.com/~tneu/voidwhereprohibited.html
Flyer by Tim Neu protesting Dmitry Sklyarov's incarceration.
free-sklyarov Mailing List http://zork.net/mailman/listinfo/free-sklyarov/
Mailing list for friends and supporters of Dmitry Sklyarov.
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News and Media News coverage of the arrest and trial of Dmitry Sklyarov and of the backlash against Adobe for initiating it.
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Adobe Systems Sites about alleged unethical or illegal conduct by Adobe Systems Incorporated, developer of desktop publishing software.
E-Books Sites with information about electronic books, including e-book guides, news reports on e-book business and technology, and pages about electronic book readers. Also includes gateways to the related
PDF Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open file format for electronic document distribution. The PDF format preserves all of the fonts, formatting, colors, and graphics of any source document,
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