[42497] in Cypherpunks
Re: S. 1284 To Amend (C) Act
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M. F. (Pat) Sprague)
Sun Oct 29 21:45:50 1995
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 18:37:21 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: msprague@owens.ridgecrest.ca.us (M. F. (Pat) Sprague)
"Tom Bell" <BELL@odo.law.udayton.edu wrote:
>The 9/28/95 Congression Report states that Senators Hatch and Leahy
>have introduced a bill to amend the Copyright Act in accord with the
>suggestions of the recent White Paper on the National Information
>Infrastructure. In relevant part, S. 1284: 1) makes transmission of copies a
>type of publication (and thus potentially a means of infringing a
>copyright); and 2) prohibits the importation, manufacture, or
>distribution of any device the primary purpose of which is to
>deactivate any technological protections that prevent or inhibit the
>violation of copyrights.
What occurs to me is that PGP could be considered a "device" to obscure contents of data therby preventing the determination of a copyright violation.
(delitia)
>
>Tom W. Bell
>Assistant Professor
>Law and Technology Program
>UD Law School
>bell@odo.law.udayton.edu
>
>PGP fingerprint:
>78 06 76 AC 32 38 A6 4C B3 81 F4 1E 2E 27 AC 71
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