NODE 707fc3d3Re: Intellectual Property and Crypto collision
koontz@MasPar.COM (David G. Koontz)Mon, 18 Sep 95 10:56:50 PDT
>> 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? :-)
More importantly, would this firmly extend first amendment protection to
electronicly transmitted forms?