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| DATE | 2004-04-08 |
| FROM | Michael Richardson
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] RE: [fairuse-talk] WIPO Considering A Ban On Computers
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> ----- Forwarded message from Contempt for Meatheads --
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> >From the threats-to-the-future dept:
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> via Freedom To Tinker:
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> http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000571.html
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> WIPO Considering a Ban on Computers
>
> Ernest Miller points [1] to a draft treaty [2] being considered by the
> World Intellectual Property Organization. It's a truly remarkable
> document. And I don't mean that in a good way.
>
> Here's the most amazing part, from Article 16, Alternative V:
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> 2. In particular, effective legal remedies shall be provided against
> those who:
> ..
> (iii) participate in the manufacture, importation, sale, or any other
> act that makes available a device or system capable of decrypting or
> helping to decrypt an encrypted program-carrying signal.
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>
>
> Every computer is "capable of decrypting or helping to decrypt" such a
> signal, so this provision, if adopted, would apparently require
> signatories to the treaty to ban the importation, sale, or distribution
> of computers.
>
> Note this this is just an "alternative" under consideration. It was
> proposed by Argentina, and Switzerland proposed language that "roughly
> corresponds" to it. I don't know whether the U.S. has taken a position
> on this, but I assume the U.S. is still in favor of computers being
> legal.
>
> [1] http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/002925.html
> [2]
> http://www.wipo.int/documents/en/meetings/2004/sccr/pdf/sccr_11_3.pdf
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