DVD Copying Software Firm Appeals Court-Ordered Bans of its Products

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 2, 2004 - 8:56am.

St. Louis -- 321 Studios, the maker of DVD movie copying software recently ordered by two federal judges to halt distribution of the application, announced that it will appeal both court rulings. The company filed appeals and emergency stay requests to both the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (California) and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (New York). Among 321's arguments on appeal will be that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which prohibits circumventing copyright security on media like DVDs, effectively denies consumers tools to exercise their traditional "fair use" rights of such media. The next step in the Second Circuit case will be a hearing on a motion for stay of the injunction against 321 on April 13, while the Ninth Circuit will first begin hearing briefs on June 18.
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