"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
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