Supreme Court to Hear California DeCSS Case

The California Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing May 29, 2003, on a key legal challenge to the publication of DeCSS, the software that decrypts DVDs. In this case, called DVD-CCA v. Bunner, California resident Andrew Bunner was one of thousands of republishers of DeCSS throughout the U.S. and the world. The Court will review an appellate court decision that held that a preliminary lower court order preventing Bunner from publishing the software violated his First Amendment rights. DVD-CCA named hundreds of people in the lawsuit, including those who printed DeCSS on T-shirts. [via EFFector, Vol. 16, No. 14]