The Economist has a story on Ed Felten, Last Word: Tinkerer's Champion. Computer Science Professor Edward W. Felten was a visiting fellow at the Law School in 2001-2002. On sabbatical leave from Princeton University, where he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Secure Internet Programming Laboratory, Professor Felten challenged the constitutionality of provisions of the DMCA that would prevent him from publishing his research. Professor Felten was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit asking for First Amendment protection for an academic paper he wrote on research into SDMI, a technological copyright protection scheme contemplated by the Recording Industry Association of America, and shielded under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. For more information, please visit the EFF's page. Felten’s presence at CIS promoted the interdisciplinary study of the DMCA’s effect on computer science research and scientific inquiry. He's now back at Princeton where he has a new blog, Freedom To Tinker.
