Dmitry Sklyarov Legal Battle: DMCA Charges and E-Book Protections

The case of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, charged with violating copyright law by writing software that strips copy and use restrictions out of Adobe Systems e-books, will be heard in March 2002. The US District Court will hear . . . The case of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, charged with violating copyright law by writing software that strips copy and use restrictions out of Adobe Systems e-books, will be heard in March 2002. The US District Court will hear Sklyarov's appeal against his indictment on the issue of US jurisdiction over the case, and another appeal that challenges the constitutionality of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), under which Sklyarov was originally charged.

Sklyarov, a Russian citizen, was arrested in July at the end of the Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas, where he had given a presentation on e-book security.

He was charged with violating the DMCA, which makes it a crime to traffic in tools or information designed to circumvent copy control schemes for encrypted content.

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