From: koontz@MasPar.COM (David G. Koontz)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 95 10:56:50 PDT
To: gnu@toad.com
Subject: Re:  Intellectual Property and Crypto collision
Message-ID: <9509181801.AA06230@argosy.MasPar.COM>
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>> 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?