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From: rhorn@infinet.UUCP (Rob Horn)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: DES
Message-ID: <296@infinet.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 15:35:25 EST
Article-I.D.: infinet.296
Posted: Wed Mar 12 15:35:25 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Mar-86 07:42:13 EST
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Reply-To: rhorn@infinet.UUCP (Rob Horn)
Organization: Infinet Inc., Andover, MA
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Summary: Export restrictions are a separate law from copyright

< just in case >

The export restrictions are a fully separate law from the patent and
copyright laws.  I believe that you will find that something can be illegal
to export and be neither patentable nor copyrightable. The origin is
an "aid to the enemy" type thinking that *includes* algorithms or
information that can be used to create devices of military importance
(e.g. crypotographic machines).  "Public domain" is just a patent and
copyright notion.
 
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				R  Horn
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