Re: [DMCA-Activists] Re: [DMCA_Discuss] (DC 7/17)

[Ruben I Safir]

the DMCA affects education because it makes you ownerless from information,
and impeeds your ability to accumalate data.


The clearest example of this was with NYU Dental School.  They forced
all their students to buy all their textbooks at the Dental School
on a DVD, and at the end of the semester, the books TURNED THEMSELVES OFF,
unless you purchases a subscription.  Printing, and sharing the disk was 
considered criminal, making it impossible to SHARE RESEARCH or sources.


That's in in a nut shell.

In order to educate and to become educated, absolute ownership of the
source materials and research facilities has to remain with the individual,
or you can not practice any real knowledge.

See http://fairuse.nylxs.com

New Yorkers for Fair Use.

Also see NYLXS http://www.nylxs.com for more information.

I'm the founder and leader of both groups, auther of the NY Fair Use web site
and have several articles published on these issues, including a regular column 
in the NYLXS
Quartly Journal.  We've also funded all NY Fair Use activities.

Indeed, DRM is Theft, and we are the stake holders.

See my article on "Who owns the Music"  It will be the main piece of literature
to target the 18-24 year old crowd in school districts, and to counter the 
mis-information being distributed by the RIAA, and the MPAA as we witnessed 
in Congressional hearings.

BTW - there is/was no 10/21/ outreach called by NY Fair Use.

NY Fair Use is now organizing an assualt on the Student Constitutency
based on the expereince of the organization in the last month in talking 
directly
with members of the IP subcommittee in the house.  We will be announcing our
next action in about a week.  It will be desinged to put specific pressure on 
members
of this key committee in the only way they understand.

I'm really not certain why this other group has decided to waste preciously 
scare 
resources as they have, but, Oh Well...

The DMCA and the issues of Information Ownership affects nearly ever aspect of 
society,
and their are natural forming constitutencies which can me mobilized for 
political
action.  The main thrust of NY Fair Use has been to spounsor a Fair Use Bill 
which
clearly grounds the Fair Use legal doctrine into the 4, and 5 ammendments of the
Constitution.

Ruben


On 2002.10.22 17:27 denise wrote:
> I am currently doing my graduate thesis on the DMCA-I have heard a lot of
> things menitoned about the fair-use policy. I was wondering if anyone could
> explain it further to me. I have read and read up on the issue, but I can't
> grasp that concept for some reason. (And why is it involved with education?)
> 
> Thanks,
> Denise
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Seth Johnson" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
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> <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>;
> <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 12:38 AM
> Subject: [DMCA_Discuss] (DC 7/17) NY Arena Outreach, 10/21/02
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> >
> > This past Saturday, New Yorkers for Fair Use did street
> > outreach on 7th Avenue in Brooklyn, recruiting volunteers to
> > help build the strength of the information freedom struggle.
> >
> > Three NY Fair Users (Brett Wynkoop, Seth Johnson and one
> > volunteer) approached 135 passers-by with a pitch about the
> > FCC planning to outlaw home recording for digital TV by
> > 2006.  Out of those approaches, 32 people volunteered for
> > various roles, most commonly Press Outreach Campaigners.
> > That gives us a parity rate of 23.7%.
> >
> > Combined with results from previous Street Outreach tactics,
> > we have added 50 volunteers to our database.
> >
> > We are planning a Press Outreach this Wednesday evening
> > using a blurb on the FCC Broadcast Flag.  That pitch can be
> > viewed at this URI:
> >
> > http://nyfairuse.org/action/fcc.flag.xhtml
> >
> >
> > Seth Johnson
> >
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