Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:20:32 +0200
From: Tom Vogt <tom@lemuria.org>
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: new art contest focusses on DeCSS



For Immediate Release


Art Contest focusses on DeCSS, Jon Johanson member of jury.



DeCSS, the DVD decryption software the MPAA tries to declare illegal, is a

topic that touches politics, science and art, but has so far not been

discussed in any of those contextes. DeArt aims to open the discussion in

one of these fields - art.

DeArt is an art contest, starting on September 1st and running until the end

of the year, that accepts submissions of original artwork and will be judging

them, including prices for the best pieces. Jon Johanson, one of the authors

of DeCSS, is a member of the jury. Emmanuel Goldstein, the MPAA's target in

New York, has also been invited.

DeArt is 100% digital and online. The DeArt webpage is located at:

	http://www.lemuria.org/DeArt/

The originator of DeArt, and also a member of the jury, is Tom Vogt, one of

the named defendant in the California DeCSS lawsuit. Tom Vogt is a resident

of Germany, and still surprised that he is being sued in California for a

webpage on his (german) webserver.




For further information, contact:

Tom Vogt
tom@lemuria.org