I am interested in technology policy as it applies to freedom of speech: copyright law, cryptography law and policy, intellectual property, and scholarly inquiry. I have also studied and taught on issues relating to voting machines.
My court declaration (local copy) in the Universal Studios v. Reimerdes DVD case. April 2000.
Technological Access Control Interferes with
Noninfringing Scholarship, by Andrew W. Appel and Edward W. Felten.
February 17, 2000.
Submitted in response to the
Copyright
Office's request for comments
(see also The Federal Register) on what classes of works should be
exempted from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's prohibition on
circumventing technological measures that control access to
copyrighted works.
(Version without introductory box at Library of Congress site.)
Also published in Communications of the ACM 43 (9) 21-23,
September 2000.
My court declaration in the Junger cryptography case. September 1997. In an opinion dated April 4, 2000, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit holds in Junger v. Daley:
Because computer source code is an expressive means for the exchange of information and ideas about computer programming, we hold that it is protected by the First Amendment.
My court declaration in the Bernstein cryptography case. March 1996. In an opinion dated May 6, 1999, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit holds:
In light of these considerations, we conclude that encryption software, in its source code form and as employed by those in the field of cryptography, must be viewed as expressive for First Amendment purposes, and thus is entitled to the protections of the prior restraint doctrine.
Security and document compatibility for electronic refereeing. Andrew W. Appel. CBE Views 20(1), 1997, published by the Council of Biology Editors.
How to Edit a Journal by E-mail. Andrew W. Appel. Journal of Scholarly Publishing, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 82-99, January 1996.