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Intellectual Property and Crypto collision
- To: cypherpunks
- Subject: Intellectual Property and Crypto collision
- From: John Gilmore <[email protected]>
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 13:20:06 -0700
- Sender: [email protected]
> ELECTRONIC MEDIA PROTECTED UNDER COPYRIGHT LAW
> A presidential task force has recommended that electronic transmission of
> books, magazine articles and software should be classified as copies
> subject to existing copyright laws. The task force also recommended that
> it should be illegal to make or distribute products aimed at decoding
> encrypted software without the consent of the copyright owner.
Would this make it illegal to produce tools for decrypting key-escrowed
software? :-)
John