Overview of DeCSS.

FAQ for DVD technology.

FAQ for the DeCSS case.

• Complaint, Dec. 28, 1999
• Order Denying TRO, Dec. 29, 1999
• Preliminary Injunction Opinion, Jan. 21, 2000
• Appeal Brief, filed with the California Sixth Appellate Court, May 15, 2000 and Reply Brief, July 6, 2000
• Amicus briefs of IEEE and CCIA & ACIS

New York: Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes 00 Civ. 00277 (LAK) and 2d Cir. 00-9185
(link to full New York document archive)

• Complaint, Jan. 14, 2000
• Preliminary Injunction, Jan. 20, 2000 (HTML)
• Transcript of Preliminary Injunction Hearing, Jan. 21, 2000
• Amended Complaint, Jan. 28, 2000
• Preliminary Injunction Order, Feb. 2, 2000 (PDF)
• Consent Judgment Against Roman Kazan, March 17, 2000
• Motion to Enjoin Linking, April 4, 2000
• Defendant's Reply and Supporting Declarations, May 3
• Plaintiffs' Reply, June 2
• Order to Show Cause, May 7, 2000
• Amicus Briefs: Charles Nesson 5/10, Openlaw Participants 5/30, Karen Coyle 6/1, Siva Vaidhyanathan 6/2, Pamela Samuelson, Yochai Benkler, 6/12
• Defendant's Reply Brief in Support of Motion to Vacate Injunction, June 14, 2000
• Hearing Transcript, June 27, 2000
• Declaration of Michael Shamos, June 30, 2000
• Defendants' Post-Trial Brief and Plaintiffs' Post-Trial Brief, August 8, 2000

Opinion and Final Judgment, August 17, 2000

• EFF's Appeal Brief for 2600 Magazine, January 19, 2001
• Amicus Briefs in Support of 2600, January 26, 2001
• Computer Scientists
• News Media
• Profs. Larry Lessig and Yochai Benkler
• Cryptographers
• Law Professors
• ACLU, for Libraries and other public interest groups
• Fair Use Interests
• ACM
• Arnold Reinhold

• Complaint, Jan. 14, 2000
• Defendants' letter memorandum, March 7, 2000

• Case decision ö code is speech.

• EFF documents about 1999 case of professor sharing encryption source code with overseas colleagues.

• Commentary from Arts and Farces.

• Review and reflection on the case from Macworld.

• ZDNet commentary on the caseâs effects on regulation on ecryption.

• 1997 Encryption Case summation regarding encryption source code.

• Summation from a 1999 trial concerning source code exempt from First Amendment protection.

Attacking the DeCSS as attacking the free-software movement. This ZDNet article frames the MPAA attack on DeCSS as an attack on the free-software movement itself.

Free Software Mission - Richard Stallman's mission statement for the open-source movement.

Box office statistics ö the effects of DeCSS

Pro free software position paper from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

MPAA statement this is Jack Valenti's (head of the MPAA) speech delivered to Congress regarding issues confronting the movie industry in the year 2001

Text of Title 17, the title governing United States copyright law.

Text of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

The legislative history of the DMCA

Exemptions from circumvention, as defined by the United States Copyright Office

Copyrightâs Commons, an organization devoted to the preservation of "public domain" information.

The Purpose of Copyright, an essay on the intent of copyright law.

Directory of cases involving copyright.

Center for Democracy and Technology summary of encryption regulation.

Policy on encryption exportation by the U.S. Department of Commerce - The Bureau of Export Administration.

This is a ZDNet article from 1997 concerning the FBIâs call for more encryption regulation.

Letter from Bureau of Export Administration concerning January 2000 export regulation.

Online Ethics Center for Science and Engineering(ECSE)

The law and economics of reverse engineering

A paper on the ethics of encryption

Editorial on the ethics of "pilfering"