Carnegie Mellon offers a course on Information Warfare, and I've been invited to give a guest lecture next week. The first half of my 80 minute lecture will cover Scientology; the second half will be about DeCSS. Now, as a good law-abiding citizen, I realize it would be wrong to hand out copies of the text of Scientology's OT III, or free NOTs packs, to all the students as they enter the classroom. I'm not going to do anything illegal. But if I were to take Keith Henson's famous letter to Judge Whyte, which contains the entire text of NOTs 34, and display it on the overhead projector while I discuss it, well, that would fall squarely under fair use, don't you think? We all know that "teaching" is one of the categories explicitly listed in the copyright regulations that govern the fair use exemption (17 USC 107). See for yourself: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/title17/92chap1.html#107 I will have lots of other things to tell the students about; Helena Kobrin's infamous RMGROUP attempt; the attack on ANON.PENET.FI; the raids on Arnie Lerma and FACTnet; Zenon's creative use of Swedish law to strip NOTs of trade secret status; the resurrection of books on the web that Scientology thought they had suppressed forever; the cult's attempts to spam both ARS and the web; the Scieno-sitter filter; and so on. I'm going to cover all that stuff, and Xenu and body thetans too. Which will provide the necessary context to make sure that the students understand what NOTs 34 means, and what Keith Henson was trying to do by publishing his letter to the judge -- which they will read in its entirety. -- Dave Touretzky, Principal Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University