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Date: 1998-07-08
U.S. Crypto/Urteil: Source Code ist keine Schrift-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Constitution geschützten Rechte auf frei Diskussion, urteilt ein Gericht aus Ohio, weil Quellcode keine Schrift, sondern funktionalistisch sei. Dies steht in diametralem Gegensatz zum bekannten Urteil im Falle Daniel Bernstein von 1996. Die damalige Entscheidung eines kalifornischen Gerichts hatte die Basis für den erfolgreichen Export von PGP nach Norwegen in Buchform gelegt. -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- Cleveland, Ohio, July 8 On July 3, 1998 Judge Gwin of the United States District Court of the Northern District of Ohio held that computer programs are not writings protected by the constitution because they are ``inherently functional'' and granted summary judgment dismissing a suit challenging regulations that forbid the publication of encryption programs on the Internet or the World Wide Web. The suit was brought by Peter Junger, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, to enjoin the enforcement of export regulations on encryption software that prevent him from publishing his class materials and articles for his course in Computing and the Law on the Internet because they contain some encryption programs. Junger claimed in his suit that those encryption programs were writings that were entitled to the full protection of the First Amendment. ``Of course they are writings,'' Junger says, ``I know because I wrote some of them. And I need to be able to publish them if I am ever going to be able to explain to lawyers and law students how computers work and how the law should be applied to computing.'' The government, on the other hand, argued that its export regulations, which require that one obtain a license from the Commerce Department before publishing materials containing encryption software on the Internet or the World Wide Web, seek only to restrict the distribution of encryption software itself, not ideas on encryption. And Judge Gwin agreed with the government, finding that: ``the Export Regulations are constitutional because encryption source code is inherently functional, because the Export Regulations are not directed at source code's expressive elements, and because the Export Regulations do not reach academic discussions of software, or software in print form.'' Full Text: http://www.jya.com/pdj12.htm -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- TIP Für tägliche Media/News (Print, TV, Net) mit Oesterreich/Bezug empfehlen wir, die oejc Liste zu sub/scribieren http://www.oejc.or.at/oejc/mailto/welcome.html -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 1998-07-08 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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