Contact: Katina Bishop, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Phone: (415) 436-9333 ex. 101
Email: katina@eff.org

San Francisco, CA. -  Martin Garbus a prominent NY First Amendment attorney
has joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) DVD legal team as
head litigator in a groundbreaking case that challenges the MPAA's
controversial interpretation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Garbus' addition to the DVD legal team brings high caliber litigation
expertise to EFF's continuing fight for free expression on the Internet.

"This is one of the most important cases of the new Millennium concerning
free expression on the Internet," stated Martin Garbus.  "The US Supreme
Court will ultimately decide whether corporations or American citizens will
be able to determine what the American public can see hear and read.  This
case stands for freedom, for the media, for the people, and against selfish
corporate greed.  With such fundamental rights in question, I felt
compelled to get involved."

Garbus is one of the country's leading trial attorneys and a founding
partner of NY firm Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein, and Selz, PC where he has long
been engaged in the fight for civil liberties.  Garbus successfully tried
complex intellectual property and media cases in nearly every state in the
country.  He has appeared before the US Supreme Court and has taught law at
Columbia and Yale Universities.  A frequent contributor to major newspapers
and national magazines, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and
Los Angeles Times, Garbus also regularly comments upon current legal issues
for NBC, CBS, Time, and Newsweek.

"EFF is excited to work with such an accomplished First Amendment litigator
and to have the benefit of Garbus' court room skills fighting for free
expression online," stated Robin Gross, EFF staff attorney.  "This case
represents a continuation in EFF's ten-year battle to protect civil
liberties on the 'Net.  It strikes at the core of EFF's mission to fight
for free expression, the right to reverse engineer software, and the right to
publish the results without fear of prosecution."

The motion picture industry has launched a series of legal attacks against
several Web site publishers for posting information on the weak security of
DVDs including 2600 Magazine in NY.  EFF, which is leading the defense in
the cases brought in California, New York, Connecticut, and Norway,
believes that the industry continues to inappropriately label speech about the
technical insecurity of DVD's as stealing digital copies of movies.

EFF's New York DVD Legal Defense Team consists of Martin Garbus of
Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein, and Selz; Eben Moglen of Columbia University Law;
Allonn Levy of Huber Samuelson; and Robin Gross of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation.   The trial date has been set for December 5, 2000 in federal
district court in New York.

EFF's work in the DVD cases is part of its Campaign for Audiovisual Free
Expression (CAFE), which it launched last year to address complex societal
and legal issues raised by new technological measures for protecting
intellectual property rights.  A special fund has been established by EFF
to support the costly nature of this litigation.  Donations are tax-deductible
and can be made online via EFF's Web site.

For more information on Martin Garbus and his work, see:
http://www.fgks.com

For complete information on the MPAA and DVD-CCA cases, see:
http://www.eff.org/IP/Video

For more information concerning EFF's Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression, see:
http://www.eff.org/cafe

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) is the leading
global nonprofit organization linking technical architectures with legal
frameworks to support the rights of individuals in an open society.
Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and government to
support free expression, privacy, and openness in the information society.
EFF is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the
most-linked-to Web sites in the world.