By Pia Heikkila, 29 January 2002 16:35
NEWS Lawyers representing the Russian programmer Dmitri Sklyarov have filed a complaint against the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in a US court claming the controversial legislation is too broad. Russian knowledge management software firm Elcomsoft is facing legal action because Sklyarov - one of its employees - hacked Adobe's e-books copyright software. But the lawyers acting on behalf of Elcomsoft now claim the DMCA is too vague and too broad to be applied to a foreign country. The company has filed an official motion through Duane Morris, a San Francisco based attorney, claiming the Act infringes the right to free speech. The Moscow-based firm faces $2.25m in fines if Dmitri gets convicted. Sklyarov is the first person to be prosecuted under the DMCA.
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