The question, essentially, was: did the breaking of encryption on a DVD for a fair use of the content violate copyright law?

The answer is now "no." And that answer is a very good thing for higher education. With the uncertainty lifted, film studies professors -- or any instructors or students who wish to use encrypted digital materials -- may now do so without fear of litigation, so long as fair use covers the content.

Wm. L. Benzon--Another in the series of essays from the National Humanities Center, On the Human; it follows Peter Railton's essay, also Sympozed, "Moral Monkeys . . . ". Extensive comments follow essay.