Legal Concerns Delay Publication of Research on 'Digital Watermarks'

An associate professor of computer science at Princeton University said in January that the publication of his group's research on technology for protecting music files has been delayed while lawyers for the universities involved discuss whether publishing the research violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

When the lawyers complete their talks -- probably this month -- Edward W. Felten said, he and his colleagues will publish on their Web site

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