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Re: DRM technology and policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed Apr 23 14:41:06 2003
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:18:15 -0700
To: bear <bear@sonic.net>, "John S. Denker" <jsd@monmouth.com>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
At 10:47 AM -0700 4/23/03, bear wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, John S. Denker wrote:
>>My unpublished notes are protected by copyright.
>>They are also private. The copyright will eventually
>>expire. It is not guaranteed or even likely that the
>>material will become public at that time.
>>
>>(Note that patents are different from copyrights.)
>
>Copyright wasn't necessary in this case. What
>you don't disclose doesn't become public, and
>doesn't need to eventually become public property.
>In fact, I'd consider this a "privacy" protection
>rather than a "copyright" protection, because
>you're not seeking payment for those notes (ie,
>you are not selling that work to the public via
>the copyright transaction). But in the same way
>laws against sexual harassment are often couched
>in terms of sexual discrimination (and therefore
>don't apply to bisexual harassers?), the laws
>protecting privacy are couched in terms of
>copyright.
Your unpublished notes are protected by trade secret. Should they become
published, then you can assert copyright to try to limit the damage.
Cheers - Bill
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