Re: WIPO [Was Re: snake oil]

Bruce Schneier (schneier@counterpane.com)
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:25:50 -0500

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Possibly. Honestly, I don't know.

At 09:31 PM 6/23/98 -0400, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
>
>WIPO Indeed. But Klug-Boucher is one of the amendments to the WIPO act
>being considered by the full commerce committee tomorrow. It protects
>fair use, making it a defense against the various crimes in the bill. My
>question was whether this amendment -- which solves some other problems --
>might also be the amendment you referred to...
>
>On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Bruce Schneier wrote:
>
>> WIPO
>>
>> At 04:27 PM 6/23/98 -0400, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
>> >Is that Klug-Boucher or something else?
>> >
>> >On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Bruce Schneier wrote:
>> >
>> >> At 10:24 AM 6/23/98 -0600, staym@accessdata.com wrote:
>> >> >If the copyright bill passes, all attempts to solve a crypto challenge
>> >> >by disassembling it would be illegal:
>> >> >http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0622/22wipo.html
>> >>
>> >> I have been spending many hours on this: in Washington, phoning,
>> >> faxing, debating. Right now there is a compromise ammendment that
>> >> I can live with; although it is not great.
>> >>
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