Author: JT Smith
New York Public Library, on the Island of Manhattan, there will be a
rally
to free Dmitry Sklyarov.
Note that this is not an LXNY event, but rather the fifth of a series
of
rallies, whose Lead Organizer and First Contact is Leonid Gorkin at
lgorkin@excite.com or lgorkin1@nyc.rr.com.
Do not bring any sticks to this rally. There is a New York City regulation forbidding sticks at gatherings.
The New York City police officers who told us of this regulation were
parfit gentle in their courtesy.
There have been and will be rallies in about twenty cities.
http://freesklyarov.org/calendar
Much of the organizing of New York City Rallies to Free Dmitry take
place
on the fairuse mailing list of NYFairUse, which list may be joined at
http://www.nyfairuse.org
To download a flyer go to:
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/dmitry-links
For more information:
http://freesklyarov.org
http://zork.net/mailman/listinfo/free-sklyarov
http://eff.org
http://www.dibona.com/dmca
http://www.templetons.com/brad/free.html
This week’s rallies are particularly important. Dmitry’s next court
date
is Thursday 23 August 2001. Before that a grand jury may hand down
charges. Our rallies and all the work of propaganda and education have
been important in reducing the threat facing Dmitry. Dmitry could
still be
prosecuted, despite Adobe’s half back-down, and he could be convicted,
in
which case he may be imprisoned for years.
Why do we rally at the New York Public Library? Because the
Association of
American Publishers has declared that they plan to close down all free
public libraries. Their chosen tool is the Digital Millennium
Copyright
Act. The DMCA outlaws fair use of books that you, or the library, have
bought and paid for:
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36584-2001Feb7.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-6545588-0.html
http://www.visi.com/~tneu/pro-book.html
http://www.macfergus.com/niels/dmca/index.html
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/boucher_ashcroft_dmca.html
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/July01/ginsparg.archive.ws.html
http://arXiv.org/blurb/pg01unesco.html
http://xxx.lanl.gov
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu
http://www.baen.com/library/home.htm
http://www.lightandmatter.com/article/article.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/30/opinion/30LESS.html
http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/08/07/lessig.html
http://www.immaterial.net/page.php3?id=44
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/articles/issue12/LU12-ebenmoglen.html
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu
http://cryptome.org
http://www.ala.org
We need marchers and leafleteers and copiers of leaflets and designers
of
leaflets and propagandizers and lobbyists and lawyers and coders and
water
carriers and publicists and diplomats. Come to the Rally and help!
Come
to the Rally and meet allies!
Dmitry Sklyarov today remains under threat of criminal prosecution
under
the DMCA. Come to the Rally and help get Dmitry free! Free to go home
and
free to do his work.
Jay Sulzberger
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York’s Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
