Diebold Stops Litigation
The voting-machine company Diebold has stopped its efforts to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to block students from posting internal company memos about flaws in their machines to the Web. Diebold sent cease-and-desist letters to many of the offenders and/or their educational institutions, including Harvard University.
Two Swarthmore College students and the Online Policy Group are still pushing for a declaratory judgment by a federal court as to the status of internal memos with regards to fair use in a digital environment.
Derek Slater, the Harvard student who received a cease-and-desist letter, has much more about it on his blog, A Copyfighter’s Musings.
