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	DVD Copy Control Assn., Inc. v. Bunner
		DVD CCA filed the instant complaint for injunctive relief on December 27, 1999, alleging that Bunner and the other defendants had misappropriated trade secrets by posting DeCSS or links to DeCSS on their Web sites, knowing that DeCSS had been created by improper means.
		According to DVD CCA, so long as Bunner knew or should have known that the information he was republishing was obtained by improper means, he cannot rely upon the general availability of the information to the rest of the world to avoid application of the injunction to him.
		In support of this position, DVD CCA contends that the denial of an injunction would offend the public policies underlying trade secret law, which are to enforce a standard of commercial ethics, to encourage research and invention, and to protect the owner's moral entitlement to the fruits of his or her labors.
	www.tomwbell.com /NetLaw/Ch07/DVD_v_Bunner.html (3662 words)

	DVD CCA Welcomes you!
		This Request for Expressions of Interest (“Request”) is issued by the DVD Copy Control Association (“DVD CCA”) to evaluate technologies for the purpose of selecting a technology for use in marking audio-visual content to convey certain content control information (“CCI”) and the detection thereof.
		The DVD CCA Board of Directors authorized the one year fee reduction to apply to all invoices issued by DVD CCA commencing October 1, 2005 and continuing through September 30, 2006.
		DVD Copy Control Association ("DVD CCA"), as licensor of the CSS Technology, hereby notifies interested parties that it is reactivating the process of evaluating technologies for use in marking audio-visual content to convey certain copy control information.
	www.dvdcca.org (916 words)

	DVD Copy Control Association v. McLaughlin, et al. Complaint
		DVD CCA is informed and believes, and based thereon alleges that Defendants have disclosed, and continue knowingly and willfully to disclose, proprietary information on their Internet web sites as part of a scheme to defeat DVD encryption software which thus enables users to illegally pirate copies of DVD videos.
		DVD CCA is unaware of the true names and/or capacities of the defendants sued herein under the fictitious names Does 1-500, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure Section 474, who each were responsible in some way for the acts and omissions complained of herein.
		The DVD industry agreed that the best solution would be the creation of a licensing entity owned and controlled by the licensees of the technology, pursuant to governance rules that balanced the interests of the three industries involved.
	legal.web.aol.com /decisions/dlip/DVDCCAComp.html (3715 words)

	EFF: DVD-CCA v. Bunner
		DVD CCA\'s Reply Brief to California Supreme Court in DVD-CCA v.
		DVD Copy Control Association (DVDCCA) Opening Brief of the DVD-CCA to overturn the Appellate ruling that threw out the preliminary injunction against Andrew Bunner\'s posting of DeCSS in DVD-CCA v.
		Declaration of Chris Eddy in Reply to Defendant Bunner\'s and McLaughlin\'s Opposition to DVD CCA\'s Application for Preliminary Injunction; and exhibit: Xing Technology License Agreement (Jan. 14, 2000; misdated Jan. 18).
	www.eff.org /IP/Video/DVDCCA_case (1701 words)

	Sample Contracts - CSS License Agreement - DVD Copy Control Association Inc. and InterVideo Inc. - Competitive ...
		For purposes of this Section, "control" means possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of an entity with respect to the matters set out in this Agreement, whether through the possession of voting power or by contract encompassing such matters.
		Copies of contracts for such sales must be available for inspection by Licensor, at least with respect to the provisions relevant to the requirements of this subparagraph.
		Neither an Eligible Licensee's failure to notify or consult with Licensor or provide copies to Licensor as required by Section 9.5(b), nor Licensor's failure to give notice under this Section 9.5(c) shall be a defense against any Beneficiary Claim or grounds for a request to delay the granting of any preliminary relief requested.
	contracts.onecle.com /intervideo/dvd-copy.lic.2000.12.22.shtml (5000 words)

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		Now, it appears that the DVD Copy Control Association, the group in charge of CSS and other forms of copy protection, has decided to loosen the reins (PDF) ever so slightly.
		Currently, there are some services that offer this feature, such as the CinemaNow Store, but their system only works with a fraction of titles in their movie library, and the attempt at adding their own copy protection resulted in burned movies that had serious defects and could not be played in all DVD players.
		Probably not, as the DVD market saturated itself some time ago and most people simply don't purchase as many titles as they did when the format was still gaining in popularity.
	arstechnica.com /news.ars/post/20060810-7470.html (496 words)

	Hollywood group drops DVD-copying case \| CNET News.com
		A request by the DVD Copy Control Association to California courts marks the close of the last prominent legal battle over DeCSS code.
		The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) has asked California state courts to dismiss its case against programmer Andrew Bunner.
		Despite the DVD CCA's move, one federal appeals court ruling in New York found it is illegal to distribute the code in the United States.
	news.com.com /2100-1025_3-5145809.html (996 words)

	C.A. Overturns Injunction Against Posting DVD Code
		It was the second time the Court of Appeal had ruled in favor of Andrew Bunner in his dispute with the DVD Copy Control Association, the exclusive licensing entity for the content scrambling system that protects the content of commercial DVDs from unauthorized use.
		The DVD CCA dismissed the underlying suit after the case was sent back to the Court of Appeal and sought to dismiss the appeal as moot, but Justice Eugene Premo explained in Friday’s opinion that the court decided to resolve the issues because they were likely to recur.
		Under those circumstances, Premo concluded, it was an abuse of discretion for the judge to conclude that the harm to the DVD CCA as a result of Bunner’s posting outweighed the harm that Bunner would suffer as a result of the injunction.
	www.metnews.com /articles/2004/dvdx030104.htm (548 words)

	DVD CCA Welcomes you!
		The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) is a not-for-profit corporation with responsibility for licensing CSS (Content Scramble System) to manufacturers of DVD hardware, discs and related products.
		By the time that Tokyo premier occurs, the film may be ready for DVD distribution in the U.S. Regional DVD coding allows viewers to enjoy films on DVD at home shortly after their region's theatrical run is complete by enabling regions to operate on their own schedules.
		A film can be released on DVD in one region even though it is still being played in theaters in another region because regional coding ensures it will not interfere with the theatrical run in another region.
	www.dvdcca.org /faq.html (858 words)

	Online NewsHour: DVD Industry Wins in Copying Case -- August 26, 2003
		The DVD Copy Control Association -- a consortium of the major movie studios and consumer electronics manufacturers that licenses the encryption technology -- initially sued Bunner and others under California's Uniform Trade Secrets Act in December 1999, about three months after Bunner posted the code on one of his Web sites.
		The DVD association first informed Bunner that he was breaking the law and asked him to remove the code from the Web site.
		The DVD association had argued that the appeals court decision was equivalent to giving thieves the tools to replicate and distribute protected materials, such as movies, on a massive scale.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/media/media_watch/july-dec03/dvd_08-26-03.html (843 words)

	DVD Copy Protection Evaluation Reopened (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Interested companies should respond to the notice by e-mail to the DVD CCA at selection.interest@dvdcca.org with specific information about the nature of their technologies and system level implementation of such.
		On or about April 11, 2001, DVD CCA will issue a "request for expressions of interest" to those companies that respond to the notice, and will make the request available on its website (www.dvdcca.org).
		DVD CCA is a multi-industry association that is composed of licensees of the CSS technology, including content owners, computer product implementers and consumer electronics product manufacturers.
	www.medialinenews.com /issues/2001/news/0402/0402.2.shtml (446 words)

	DVD Copy Control Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) is an organization primarily responsible for the copy prevention of DVDs.
		The association is also responsible for the much criticised regional playback control (RPC), the region encoding scheme which gives movie studios geographic control over DVD release dates to maximize their investments and also help thwart copyright infringement.
		CSS decrypting software (such as DVD Decrypter, AnyDVD, and DVD Shrink) allows a region-specific DVD to be copied as an all-region DVD.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DVD_Copy_Control_Association (392 words)

	Intellectual property rights vs. public access rights: ethical aspects of the DeCSS decryptation program
		He was sued by the US DVD Copy Control Association (DVD-CCA) and the Norwegian Motion Picture Association (MAP), allies of the US Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), arrested by Norwegian police and charged with data crime.
		The copy bar is licensed by DVD Copy Control Association Incorporated for the protection of DVD films produced by Motion Pictures Association members.
		The ruling was a triumph for the DVD Copy Control Association (DVDCCA) which has sued dozens of Websites for publishing DeCSS (Eschenfelder and Desai 2004).
	informationr.net /ir/10-3/paper230.html (4599 words)

	bit-tech.net \| iTunes to soon allow DVD burns?
		Yet another form of DRM is being finalized, as the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) puts final touches on a new set of rules.
		The DVD CCA has taken a different approach to DRM than the industry as a whole.
		"DVD CCA and its board members are excited at the prospect of being able to offer businesses and consumers an exciting new way to record and enjoy digital content for use in their homes, cars and elsewhere.
	www.bit-tech.net /news/2006/08/11/iTunes_to_soon_allow_dvd_burns (329 words)

	DeCSS Case - DVD Copy Control Association, Inc. v. Andrew Bunner
		CSS is designed to restrict the playback of an encrypted (scrambled) DVD to a CSS-equipped DVD player or DVD drive, which is capable of decrypting (unscrambling) the DVD.
		On December 27, 1999, DVDCCA sent to defendants by electronic mail a copy of the complaint and a notice of its application for a TRO.
		Gilmore explained that widespread copying of DVDs was not currently feasible because the removable media commonly available today lacked the capacity for the "enormous file size" necessary to hold a complete movie.
	www.linksandlaw.com /decisions-109.htm (4454 words)

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		Plaintiff, DVD Copy Control Association, is the sole licencing entity which grants licenses to the CSS technology in the DVD format.
		The alleged misappropriation of the CSS algorithm and master keys is the subject of this action and the instant Motion for Preliminary Injunction.
		DVD Copy 2.0 is available as a downloadable demo as well.
	www.lycos.com /info/dvd-copy--miscellaneous.html (368 words)

	DVD copiers win big in state court ruling / Encryption code said to have lost trade secret status
		Lawyers for the DVD Copy Control Association were unavailable for comment.
		The program was quickly copied and posted by computer users around the world, including Andrew Bunner, a young Bay Area software engineer who was sued in December 1999 by the DVD Copy Control Association.
		On Friday, the three-judge appellate panel said the Copy Control Association did not have strong enough evidence on either issue to justify an injunction.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/28/BUG8T5ACGB1.DTL (613 words)

	DVD-On-Demand Solution Unveiled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		A partnership between Sonic Solutions and Macrovision may help pave the way for people to be able to walk into a store, order a movie and have it burned onto a DVD in 10 minutes.
		DVDs have typically been produced in mass quantities in manufacturing plants.
		But the DVD Copy Control Association passed new rules this summer that for the first time allow copyrighted DVDs to be burned in kiosks and individually, so that even the most obscure titles have a chance of becoming a
	www.dvd-recordable.org /Article3006.phtml (601 words)

	GILC Statement
		In their lawsuit, they claim that the defendants are violating the association's trade secrets and other intellectual property rights by publishing and discussing the source code of (or simply linking to other sites that publish or discuss) a legally reverse-engineered means of decoding DVD discs.
		In the DVD CCA's claim, the DVD-CCA have made the highly questionable suggestion that the source code's real purpose is to enable illegal duplication of DVD discs.
		In our opinion, the DVD CCA's actions are in direct conflict with United Nations human rights accords and the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, because the information that the programmers posted is legal.
	www.gilc.org /speech/DVD-CSS.html (908 words)

	CDFreaks.com \| news\| dvd copy control association to soon launch recordable css
		With Sonic recently unveiling its DVD-on-demand software to become the first to allow Content Scramble System (CSS) copy protection to be used on CSS compatible recordable media, the DVD Copy Control Association expects to soon finalise the changes to allow this to take place.
		Under rule changes expected to be finalized soon by the DVD Copy Control Association, retailers could create movie jukebox kiosks with which customers can select, say, an obscure title and burn it to a DVD on the spot.
		The association, an arm of Hollywood studios, licenses the encryption technology to makers of DVD players and other electronics companies and applies it widely to movies on DVDs to restrict illegal copying.
	www.cdfreaks.com /news/13800 (770 words)

	eHomeUpgrade Forums - Kaleidescape Gets Sued by the DVD Copy Control Association
		Kaleidescape, one of the few players in the DVD movie server market that has made the best effort in producing a fully licensed, be it a super-expensive ($27,000), movie jukebox is getting sued by DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA).
		The twist to this story is that the DVD CCA is the licensing partner Kaleidescape pays off to have the right to bypass CSS copy-protection technology used by DVDs when making “bit-for-bit” copies for storage on the movie server, which are then available for in-home network distribution and viewing.
		Bill Coats, a DVD CCA attorney tells CNET News, “The express intent and purpose of the contract and CSS are to prevent copying of copyrighted materials such as DVD motion pictures.
	www.ehomeupgrade.com /forums/showthread.php?p=828#post828 (705 words)

	Openlaw: Open DVD
		We have since broadened focus to general discussion of challenges to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's imposition of "access controls" and enforcement of "copy controls" that may too easily become limitations on the use of copyrighted material.
		The California court also ruled against the DVD Copy Control Association in its bid to haul out-of-state developers to trial in California.
		The defense challenged the studios' assertion of an absolute right to control the manner in which movies are played, arguing that DeCSS enables fair use of DVD media and facilitates the playing of movies on unsupported operating systems.
	cyber.law.harvard.edu /openlaw/DVD (3870 words)

	SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA
		DVD CCA is informed and believes, and based thereon alleges, that defendant John V.
		DVD CCA is informed and believes, and based thereon alleges, that defendant Ian A.
		DVD video discs containing data comprising motion pictures in encrypted form can be played either on special purpose machines ("DVD Players") or personal computers ("PCs") equipped with DVD drives.
	www.free-dvd.org.lu /restraining.html (3694 words)

	My Lengthy Rant About DeCSS
		CSS is not even copy protection at all; it does not prevent anyone from making a bit-for-bit copy of a DVD, therefore all it prevents is the playing of a DVD by an unlicensed player.
		The DVD Consortium has set themselves up as a monopoly, and they are using a tying arrangement to make even more money by requiring a very high licensing fee for companies to produce a player.
		The DVD CCA also uses the analogy to the effect that breaking the encryption surrounding DVDs is like breaking into someone else's house: it is not their fault you broke in.
	members.cox.net /hayai2/rant.html (1766 words)

	Trade Secrets Lose Out to Speech
		A three-judge panel overturned a preliminary injunction won by an industry group that licenses the technology used to encrypt DVDs, saying it was not a permissible prior restraint on pure speech.
		An attorney for the DVD Copy Control Association said the ruling makes it impossible for companies to prevent the theft of trade secrets.
		In addition, a person who exposes the trade secret may be liable for damages if he or she was bound by a contractual obligation to safeguard the secret," wrote Premo, who was joined by Justices Franklin Elia and Nathan Mihara.
	www.law.com /regionals/ca/stories/edt1102c.shtml (554 words)

	USATODAY.com - Movie industry group sues maker of DVD-copy software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, is the latest salvo by the DVD Copy Control Association in its larger fight against what the movie industry considers unauthorized usage of its content.
		"In taking this legal action, DVD CCA is turning its focus toward those who produce and broadly distribute products in the marketplace that facilitate the widespread infringement of the copyrights on motion pictures that CSS was designed to protect," said Steven Reiss, an attorney for the association.
		Now the Copy Control Association claims the product infringes its patents and uses the CSS technology without proper licenses.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2004-02-13-321-copyright-suit_x.htm (433 words)

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