Supporters of a jailed Russian software programmer have called for Adobe Systems to contribute to a legal defence fund.
"Adobe made the mess so they should help clean it up," said Don Marti, an organiser for the Coalition to Free Dmitry.
Adobe prompted the criminal prosecution in the case by complaining to federal officials that a software program he wrote violates the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. After meeting with the EFF last week, Adobe withdrew its support of the case.
Sklyarov has been in jail for about two weeks, accused of violating the new US copyright law, which prohibits the creation of software that circumvents copyright protections.
His software allows people who purchase electronic books and use Adobe's eBook Reader to transfer the book to other computers and devices, and to make copies of it. It is legal, even required, in Russia, according to Sklyarov and his employer, Moscow-based ElcomSoft.
