IEEE Pauses . . . and thinks!

tom poe tompoe at renonevada.net
Mon Apr 15 22:51:44 CDT 2002


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.



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