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[Community_studios] IEEE Pauses . . . and thinks!

From: tom poe <tompoe AT renonevada.net>
To: "Reno_Perl_Group" <renotahoe-pm AT pm.org>
Cc: "CommStudios" <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>, "DMCA" <dmca_discuss AT lists.microshaft.org>
Subject: [Community_studios] IEEE Pauses . . . and thinks!
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:51:44 -0700

Hi: This is better.
Thanks,
Tom
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Controversial copyright clause abandoned

17:30 15 April 02

NewScientist.com news service

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which publishes
30 per cent of all computer science journals worldwide, is to stop requiring
authors to comply with a controversial US digital copyright law.

The IEEE produced a new set of conditions for publication at the beginning of
2002. These required that authors' work must not contravene the Digital
Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Many academics believe the DMCA discourages scientists from publishing
valuable research through fear of legal action. The DMCA prohibits "any
technology, product, service, device, component or part" that circumvents
digital copy protection systems. This includes the software encryption
designed to stop people making copies of music or video files, for example.
Scientists say the Act means that just producing research on a copy
protection system could land them in legal trouble.

[Community_studios] IEEE Pauses . . . and thinks!, tom poe, 04/15/2002