FC: IEEE says authors must certify papers to be DMCA-violation-free

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Sun Apr 14 2002 - 10:24:47 PDT

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    From: "paul music" <pmusicat_private>
    To: "DeClan" <declanat_private>
    Subject: IEEE forbids papers violating DMCA
    Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 22:01:19 -0500
    
    Saturday April 13, 2002 - [ 12:38 AM GMT ]
    <mailto:eminat_private>Anonymous Reader writes "The Institute for 
    Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) now forbids paper submissions 
    which violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) via its new 
    copyright form available at 
    www.ieee.org/about/documentation/copyright/NewCRfo rm101901.pdf. The 
    copyright form, which all authors must sign as a condition of publication, 
    requires the signer to warrant that the "publication or dissemination of 
    the Work shall not violate any proprietary right or the Digital Copyright 
    Millennium Act" [sic]. According to their web site at www.ieee.org, the 
    IEEE is a non-profit, technical professional association of more than 
    377,000 individual members in 150 countries. The IEEE produces 30 percent 
    of the world's published literature in electrical engineering, computers 
    and control technology, holds annually more than 300 major conferences and 
    has more than 860 active standards with 700 under development. Hence, the 
    IEEE's decision to require authors to adhere to the DMCA has the potential 
    to restrict research and discussion of security matters worldwide due to 
    the 1998 U.S. law."
    
      <http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/04/14/0039211>http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/04/14/0039211 
    
    
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    From: David Crookes <davidat_private>
    To: declanat_private
    Subject: Fwd: Censored article
    Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 08:40:16 +0100
    
    This seems worthy enough for politech...
    
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    Subject: Censored article
    Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:36:28 +0100
    From: Ross Anderson <Ross.Andersonat_private>
    
    I was invited to write an article for IEEE Spectrum on the
    export bill. I did so, but they insisted on editorial
    changes that I found unacceptable. For example, they wanted
    to insert a sentence crediting IBM with opposition to
    export controls, when as we all know IBM was thoroughly in
    the NSA corner.
    
    IEEE first delayed the article to May, and then pulled it. I
    have put it up on my web site instead:
    
             http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/spectrum.html
    
    Ross
    
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