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

[Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>]

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From: "paul music" <pmusic@mmcable.com>
To: "DeClan" <declan@well.com>
Subject: IEEE forbids papers violating DMCA
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 22:01:19 -0500

Saturday April 13, 2002 - [ 12:38 AM GMT ]
<mailto:emin@allegro.mit.edu>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 <david@crimbles.demon.co.uk>
To: declan@well.com
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.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk>

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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