Impact of Recent Court Rulings on Copyright and Free Speech

If there was a scorecard for copyright lawsuits, this week it would look like this: entertainment industry 2, free speech zip. On Wednesday, with a pair of federal courts siding with the music and record industry, the Electronic Frontier Foundation lost . . . If there was a scorecard for copyright lawsuits, this week it would look like this: entertainment industry 2, free speech zip. On Wednesday, with a pair of federal courts siding with the music and record industry, the Electronic Frontier Foundation lost two of its most important intellectual property cases so far.

Programmers, hackers and open-source aficionados had pinned their hopes on these lawsuits as a way to eviscerate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a 1998 federal law loved by the entertainment and software industries almost as much as it's hated by computer professionals.

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