Swarthmore Students Win Court Case Against Voting-Machine Company

A federal court has ruled that a maker of computer-voting machines violated copyright law by demanding that Swarthmore College remove what the company called copyrighted material from their servers even though the company knew that the material was not actually protected by copyright.

The case appears to be the first to interpret a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that allows Web-site owners to collect damages if they remove material based on a deceptive claim of

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