IEEE Copyright Transfer Export Control Compliance Form
Ieee,
Apr 15, 2002
There's a bit of a flutter in the engineering and standards community as the the new Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) author submissions form is released. IEEE now requires that all its authors warrant that publication or distribution of the of the work will not violate Digital Copyright Millennium Act (the "DCMA") (sic). Most people assume they mean the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA). Most of the reaction on SlashDot (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/14/166232) and elsewhere has been negative, but as one poster comments, "They're just trying to protect themselves from lawsuits - that's all." That said, DCMA based "censorship" in IEEE journals is already being reported on PoliTechBot (http://www.politechbot.com/p-03393.html).
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