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Fw: 1998-10-01 VP Announces New Efforts to Crack Down on Software Piracy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kryz)
Fri Oct 2 16:25:30 1998
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From: "kryz" <chrisharwig@hetnet.nl>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 98 20:40:59 -0000 (DST)
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To whom it may concern:
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| Date: donderdag 1 oktober 1998 20:20:00
| From: The White House
| To: Public-Distribution@pub.pub.whitehouse.gov
| Subject: 1998-10-01 VP Announces New Efforts to Crack Down on Software =
Piracy
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| THE WHITE HOUSE
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| Office of the Vice President
| _______________________________________________________________________=
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| For Immediate Release October 1, 199=
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| VICE PRESIDENT GORE ANNOUNCES
| NEW EFFORTS TO CRACK DOWN ON SOFTWARE PIRACY WORLD-WIDE
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| Washington, DC --Vice President Gore announced today that a new
| Executive Order (EO) will direct federal departments and agencies to
| prevent and combat computer software piracy, and the President also wil=
l
| direct the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to press foreign
| governments to enact similar protections.
|
| "Today, we are declaring war on software piracy," Vice President =
| Gore said. "The message is clear: don't copy that floppy. At home =
or
| abroad,intellectual property must be protected."
|
| The federal government is the world's largest buyer of
| computer-related services and equipment, at over $20 billion a year. =
| An estimated $11 billion was lost world-wide to software piracy in 1997=
,
| translating into as many as 130,000 lost jobs in the United States.
|
| President Clinton's Executive Order directs agencies to:
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| Ensure that only authorized computer software is acquired for,
| and used on, agency computers.
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| Ensure that agency policies and practices related to copyrights
| on computer software are adequate.
|
| Prepare an inventory of the software on their computers.
|
| Develop and maintain adequate record-keeping systems for their
| computer software.
|
| Vice President Gore said the President is directing USTR Charlene
| Barshefsky to press other governments over the next year to announce
| programs ensuring that their departments and ministries use only
| legitimate software in an authorized manner. Working closely with
| software companies, USTR will seek to persuade other governments to
| modernize their software management systems, to assess software use
| through comprehensive audits, and to ensure that procurement practices =
| call for, and budgets provide for, acquisition and use of "legal
| software."
|
| Finally, the Vice President announced that the Commerce Department
| will award 79 new Advanced Technology Program (ATP) grants, worth $82
| million, to keep America at the cutting-edge of technology and
| innovation. ATP helps fund higher-risk, higher-payoff investments that
| can yield enormous economic benefits. By requiring cost-sharing from =
| industry, the ATP leverages federal research dollars and encourages
| companies to invest in long-term technological breakthroughs.
|
| This year's grants will go for, among other things:
|
| Technology to restore nerve functions to treat victims of
| spinal cord injuries.
|
| Life-saving DNA diagnostics at 1/100th of the current cost.
|
| Digital video technologies that will allow businesses to do
| video-conferencing over ordinary phone lines.
|
| Software technologies that will dramatically cut the cost
| of updating the skills of workers using computer-based
| training.
|
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