IEEE and DMCA

[Declan McCullagh]

We covered this on Politech over a year ago, and I had understood
at the time that IEEE was going to remove that language:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03402.html

-Declan


On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 08:16:39AM -0700, Mike Rosing wrote:
> I don't know if anyone here is a member of the IEEE, but here's a couple
> of interesting comments that came in my mail box this morning.  Seems
> like the IEEE isn't interested in crypto research?
> 
> Patience, persistence, truth,
> Dr. mike
> 
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> Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 08:36:54 -0400
> To: pkilabs-announce at internet2.edu
> Subject: [PKILAB] chilling effect: ieee and dmca
> From: Sean Smith <sws at cs.dartmouth.edu>
> 
> This morning, i noticed that the IEEE copyright form
> (that authors must sign when they publish papers with the IEEE),
> the signer must warrant that "publication or dissemination of the work"
> will not violate the DMCA.
> 
> --Sean
> 
> -- 
> Sean W. Smith, Ph.D.                         sws at cs.dartmouth.edu
> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws/       (has ssl link to pgp key)
> Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH USA
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> Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 06:45:43 -0700
> Message-ID: <200305161345.h4GDjhi14657 at cayman-islands.isi.edu>
> From: Clifford Neuman <bcn at ISI.EDU>
> To: sws at cs.dartmouth.edu
> CC: pkilabs-announce at internet2.edu
> 
> I suggest that we ask the IEEE to include with the form their
> definitive interpretation of the DMCA and spell out specifically what
> the signer is warranting.  Without such a statement limiting the
> warranty to what the signer can reasonably interpret, I would
> certainly not feel confortable granting such a warranty.
> 
> Cliff
> 
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