[90622] in Cypherpunks
ISBN and EAR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Fri Nov 21 14:44:23 1997
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:01:24 -0800
To: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
Reply-To: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
The Administration, through the EAR, has attempted to maintain the fiction=
that there is a qualitative difference between intellectual works made=
tangible in paper and those in electronic form. Can a Federal court's=
introduction of evidence procedure be used to establish the=
interchageability of IP works in paper and elecronic form and if so can=
these rules be applied to the EAR?
The ISBN is an identification system for books and other media which allows =
for
order-processing by booksellers, libraries, universities, wholesalers and=
distributors. It identifies a title or edition of a title and is unique to=
that title or edition. The ISBN system was established in 1968 as a=
standard for books and other monographic publications. Today, the scope of=
the system has expanded to include other media such as calendars, spoken=
word audiocassettes, videocassettes and electronic media.=20
Is anyone aware of a federal case, accepted into the SC, in which an work of=
intellectural property (esp. a book) admitted as evidence was referenced=
solely by its ISBN?
Might this direction a legally fruitful way to overturn the EAR fiction?
--Steve
