========================================================================= ________________ _______________ _______________ /_______________/\ /_______________\ /\______________\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/ ||||||||||||||||| / //////////////// \\\\\________/\ |||||________\ / /////______\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\/____ |||||||||||||| / ///////////// \\\\\___________/\ ||||| / //// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/ ||||| \//// ========================================================================= EFFector Online Volume 09 No. 06 May 17, 1996 editors@eff.org A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424 IN THIS ISSUE: ACTION ALERT: Tell Legislators "No!" on Harmful NII Copyright Bill House Members Demand an End to "Key Escrow" and Crypto Export Regs NewsNybbles Georgia Online Trademark Law Passed - CORRECTION Upcoming Events Quote of the Day What YOU Can Do Administrivia * See http://www.eff.org/Alerts/ or ftp.eff.org, /pub/Alerts/ for more information on current EFF activities and online activism alerts! * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: ACTION ALERT: Tell Legislators "No!" on Harmful NII Copyright Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [This is an action alert from the Digital Future Coalition, of which EFF is a member organization.] YOUR IMMEDIATE FAXES AND CALLS TO CONGRESS NEEDED TO SLOW IMMINENT ACTION ON BADLY FLAWED CYBERSPACE COPYRIGHT BILL Congressional contacts urgently needed NO LATER THAN Tuesday, May 21 Next Wednesday, May 22, the House Judiciary Committee's Intellectual Property Subcommittee is scheduled to consider amendments to, and vote on approval of HR 2441, the "National Information Infrastructure Act of 1995." Such approval, if given, would give an important boost to passage of a legislative package heavily backed by -- and tilted in favor of -- the movie, recording, and publishing industries (and other large "content providers"). [This was already supposed to have happened this week, but action on the bill has been postponed until the 22nd, and the alert's been updated accordingly. This delay is lucky - the public gets another chance to save it's fair use rights. - mech@eff.org] If passed in its current form, the bill would: *** make it a copyright violation to simply browse the Net without a license from copyright owners; *** subject computer system operators -- such as on-line services and networks at schools and libraries -- to potentially crippling liability for the copyright violations of their users *** cripple "distance education" efforts especially vital to rural communities and the disabled; and *** make it illegal to manufacture, import or distribute devices and software (including computers and VCRs) needed by industry, schools and libraries to make "fair use" of encrypted information - overruling long-standing Supreme Court precedent. WRITE AND CALL MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE JUDICIARY INTELLECTUAL SUBCOMMITTEE AND KEY FULL COMMITTEE MEMBERS NOW (list and information below)!!! Tell them that: ** These issues, and the healthy development of the Net are of critical concern to you, AND ** The May 22 meeting of the Intellectual Property Subcommittee is *too soon*. Congress should take the time needed to understand and adequately deal with *all* of the complicated issues raised by HR 2441 before it takes action. For more information about the bill, the dangers it poses and the constructive solutions offered, please see the DIGITAL FUTURE COALITION Website at http://www.ari.net/dfc. Please get your faxes and calls to the following members of Congress, especially those Members who represent you, NO LATER THAN Tuesday, May 21: (all letters go to the address + Washington, DC 20515) Member home city address phone fax Carlos Moorhead Glendale, CA 2346 RHOB 225-4176 226-1279 F. James Sensenbrenner Brookfield, WI 2332 RHOB 225-5101 225-3190 George Gekas Harrisburg, PA 2410 RHOB 225-4315 225-8440 Howard Coble Asheboro, NC 403 CHOB 225-3065 225-8611 Elton Gallegly Oxnard, CA 2441 RHOB 225-5811 225-1100 Charles Canady Lakeland, FL 1222 LHOB 225-1252 225-2279 Bob Goodlatte Roanoke, NC 123 CHOB 225-5431 225-9681 Martin Hoke Fariview Park, OH 212 CHOB 225-5871 226-0994 Sonny Bono Palm Springs, CA 512 CHOB 225-5330 225-2961 John Conyers, Jr. Detroit, MI 2426 RHOB 225-5126 225-0072 Patricia Schroeder Denver, CO 2307 RHOB 225-4431 225-5842 Howard Berman Mission Hills, CA 2231 RHOB 225-4695 225-5279 Rick Boucher Abingdon, VA 2245 RHOB 225-3861 225-0442 Jerry Nadler New York, NY 109 CHOB 225-5635 225-6923 Xavier Becerra Los Angeles, CA 1119 LHOB 225-6235 225-2202 ************************Suggested Letter****************************** [DATE] The Honorable {name} United States House of Representative __#__ ____ Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Representative__________: I am writing today to ask that you do everything in your power to assure that no action is taken by the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property on the "NII Copyright Protection Act of 1995" (HR 2441) until a broad consensus can be reached on how to resolve a number of issues of critical mportance to me and, in my view, the future of the Internet. As I understand it, this bill in its current form, would seriously undermine the ability of businesses, inventors, schools and librraies to make full use of the Internet's great potential. Specifically, H.R. 2441 would : * make it a copyright violation to simply browse the Net without a license from copyright owners; * subject computer system operators -- such as on-line services and networks at schools and libraries -- to potentially crippling liability for the copyright violations of their users, even if the operator has no knowledge of such violations; * thwart "distance education" efforts especially vital to rural communities and the disabled; and * make it illegal to manufacture, import or distribute devices and software (including computers and VCRs) needed by industry, schools and libraries to make "fair use" of encrypted information by overruling long-standing Supreme Court precedent. Please don't allow the fears of major copyright owning industries to cripple the Internet for the rest of America. I urge you and other members of the House Judiciary Committee to take the time necessary to understand and thoroughly debate all of the proposed amendments to H.R. 2441, including those proposed by the Digital Future Coalition. Thank you very much for helping make the most of new technology and the Internet to bring the benefits of information technology to all Americans, and especially those in [INSERT THE NAME OF THE DISTRICT/CITY]. Sincerely, *************************Press Release*********************************** DIGITAL FUTURE COALITION ...promoting "Progress in Science and useful Arts" Contact: Ephraim Cohen Digital Future Coalition (202) 628-6048 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Digital Future Coalition Says Amendments Needed to Balance NII copyright protection act of 1995 Washington, DC, May 7, 1996 -- Calling for Congress to ensure that cyberspace copyright law remains appropriately balanced between the interests of copyright holders and users of copyrighted material, a Digital Future Coalition (DFC) spokesman today outlined a seven-point package of amendments to S.1284, the NII Copyright Protection Act of 1995. The changes were recommended during hearings on the Clinton Administration's proposal before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Introduced by Senators Orrin Hatch(R. Utah) and Patrick Leahy(D. Vermont), S.1284 is based on recommendations made by the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights after two years of study of consumers' use of copyrighted works on the Internet. DFC Spokesman Robert L. Oakley, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Director of the Georgetown Center Law Library and Washington Affairs Representative for the American Association of Law Libraries, told the committee, " Congress now has a golden opportunity (and a responsibility) to bring all of the critical precepts at the core of copyright law into the digital future together and in balance." DFC recommended several clarifications to S.1284 to ensure that the nature and scope of the Fair Use Doctrine would be made clear in the legislation, that there would not be overbroad restrictions on the manufacture of devices and systems needed to make fair use rights real, and that commercial and non-commercial use of the NII and GII would not be "dramatically chilled by the potential for crippling legislation and liability." It also offered new provisions on the Fair Use and First Sale doctrines and recommended that Section 1201, regarding "Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems" be stricken from the bill. To "better assure that the critical balance in the copyright law is maintained," the DFC's seven-point proposal included new provisions to: * Make clear that RAM and other "ephemeral" reproductions are not "copies" within the meaning of the bill * Clarify that the Fair Use doctrine applies to the transmission of copyrighted works * Maximize libraries' ability to preserve the nation's cultural and scholarly heritage * Affirm that the "First Sale" doctrine applies to digital copies lawfully acquired by electronic transmission to the same extent that it applies to physical analog copies * Assure that the public is not deprived of advances in "distance education" for elementary, secondary and higher education * Adopt product-specific, industry developed solutions to questions of reproduction of intellectual property, and abandon the current anti-technology approach * Focus criminal prosecutions only on actions with the intent to infringe copyright, and study carefully the potential for compromising network users' privacy imposed by "copyright management information" systems Oakley said the imbalance of copyright protection included in S.1284, "not only threatens consumer interests and to inhibit or preclude the emergence of new business models in cyberspace, but also promises to retard the very 'Progress in Science and the useful Arts' that led the Framers of the Constitution to grant Congress the power to award copyrights over two centuries ago." The Digital Future Coalition has a membership from both the public and private sectors which together represents a combined membership of more than 2.2 million individuals, corporations and organizations with direct interests in the continued growth and development of the National Information Infrastructure. The members of the DFC are committed to supporting proposals which promote innovation in the information and technology industries, personal privacy in electronic communication, and public access to information resources, as well as appropriate protection for copyrighted content in the digital environment. ### ------------------------------ Subject: House Members Demand an End to "Key Escrow" and Crypto Export Regs --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRESS RELEASE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION http://www.eff.org/ 1550 Bryant St., Ste. 725 May 17, 1996 San Francisco CA 94103 USA +1 415 436 9333 (v) * +1 415 436 9993 (f) Contacts: Lori Fena, Executive Dir. * lori@eff.org * +1 415 436 9333 Shari Steele, Counsel (legal queries) * ssteele@eff.org * +1 301 375 8856 John Gilmore, Co-Founder (technical queries) * gnu@eff.org EFF commends a diverse group of twenty-seven U.S. Representatives who on Wednesday signed and sent a letter to President Clinton, urging the Administration to abandon "key escrow" schemes and immediately liberalize export controls on encryption programs and products. (A copy of the letter is appended to this press release.) The old Cold War model of regulating encryption as a "munition" is obsolete in a world where electronic security and privacy affect everyone's daily life. Increased Congressional interest in this issue underscores EFF's position that encryption "key escrow" systems fail to serve the interests of individuals and businesses. Problems with "key escrow" include: * inadequate security from unauthorized eavesdropping on personal & commercial electronic communications; * annual losses of billions of U.S. dollars to industrial espionage and online fraud; * harm to U.S. software providers, who cannot compete in the global market for security products with the insecure "key escrow" offerings the Administration has pushed; and * overly-broad extensions to law enforcement and intelligence surveillance authority, with alarming accountability loopholes EFF believes that the deregulation of encryption is necessary to facilitate private communications as well as the expansion of U.S. commerce to online channels and international markets. Encryption is the envelope for the digital age. Several of the signatories, including Representatives Robert Goodlatte and Anna Eshoo, have either introduced or expressed support for recent House legislation which would ease the current restrictive controls on encryption export, and which takes steps to prevent the creation of a mandatory "key escrow" system (in which all users' private encryption keys are held by third parties for the convenience of government agents.) The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources and information in new media. Internet Security Day: EFF, CDT and over 25 other organizations will hold a day-long educational event in California's Silicon Valley in July. The "Internet Security Day" will bring together industry leaders, members of Congress, encryption experts and others to discuss the need to reform U.S. encryption policy. Similar events, to be held throughout the U.S. and on the Net, are also being planned. Other sponsors of the event include Voters Telecommunications Watch (VTW), Americans for Tax Reform, AT&T, Pacific Telesis, America On-Line, Netscape, the Business Software Alliance, the Software Publishers Association, and several others. The Golden Key Campaign: EFF and other civil liberties groups ask that a key-and-envelope logo be displayed to show support for the essential human right of privacy. This fundamental building block of free society has been affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, the constitutions and laws of many countries, and the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. Both the key and the envelope symbolize historic means for communicating privately and protecting personal and commercial information. Today, only encryption tools can provide this privacy in the electronic world. Web Sites for More Information Golden Key Campaign: http://www.eff.org/goldkey.html The US encryption policy debate: http://www.crypto.com http://www.privacy.org/ipc Privacy & encryption--technical & legal issues: http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy ************************ TEXT OF LETTER FROM HOUSE MEMBERS TO PRESIDENT CLINTON Congress of the United States Washington, DC 20515 May 15, 1996 The Honorable William J. Clinton The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: We are writing to ask you not to proceed with your Administration's key escrow encryption policy proposal and instead to immediately liberalize export controls on non-key escrow encryption programs and products. Many of us have sponsored H.R. 3011, the "Security and Freedom Though Encryption (SAFE) Act" which would ensure the continued ability of Americans to use and sell good encryption and would permit the export of generally available software with encryption capabilities and other such software and hardware under license when certain conditions are met. We understand that the Administration has developed a key escrow encryption proposal and is not at this time willing to ease export restrictions on encryption programs and products which are widely available from domestic and foreign companies and the Internet. We share the concerns of a wide range of businesses and privacy interests that a key escrow approach will not adequately address security concerns. The ability of companies and individuals to ensure that the information they send over communications and computer networks is secure is a prerequisite to exploiting the potential of the Global Information Infrastructure. For example, U.S. small businesses are beginning to harness the Internet to enter foreign markets. The Internet in effect lowers the barriers to entry for these companies. But they will not be able to rely on the Internet if their information is not secure. We also have serious concerns about the impact of the Administration's policy on the U.S. economy and job creation. (Indeed, it is our strong belief the U.S. economic interests must be a primary consideration in encryption policy discussions with other countries, the OECD, and in other forums. It is not clear that this has been the case in the discussions held up to this point). A recent report entitled "A Study of the International Market for Computer Software With Encryption" prepared by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the National Security Agency indicated that U.S. companies will lose market share given the availability of stronger encryption products overseas. The Computer Systems Policy Project estimates that unless the U.S. relaxes out-of-date export controls, the U.S. technology industry will lose $60 billion in revenues and 200,000 jobs by the year 2000. As Congress begins to consider H.R. 3011 we would greatly appreciate knowing whether the Administration plans to publish a final rule implementing a key escrow encryption proposal or, alternatively, will relax export controls on encryption programs and products which do not have a key escrow feature. Sincerely, Tom Campbell Bob Goodlatte Anna Eshoo Eliot Engel Zoe Lofgren Bob Barr Carlos Moorhead Patricia Schroeder Barney Frank Sam Gejdenson Howard Coble Rick Boucher Fred Heineman Sonny Bono Vernon Ehlers Randy Cunningham Charlie Norwood Randy Tate Donald Manzullo Helen Chenoweth Thomas Davis Roscoe Bartlett Sam Farr Ken Calvert Linda Smith Joseph Moakley Lynn Woolsey [end letter] The text of Rep. Goodlatte's press release is available online at: http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/hr_crypto_960515.letter (along with a copy of the letter for convenient redistribution). ------------------------------ Subject: NewsNybbles -------------------- * Georgia Online Trademark Law Passed - CORRECTION Last issue ye editor mis-reported: "A new bill to repeal this law has been introduced in the state legislature. (No online text available as of yet)." This should have read: "A new bill to repeal this law has been drafted in the state legislature. (No online text available as of yet)." The Georgia legislature is in recess, and so this bill has not of course been introduced yet, and only exists in draft form. (Incidentally this also probably means that the text will not be available until the legislature is back in session and the bill is actually introduced, in 1997.) ------------------------------ Upcoming Events --------------- This schedule lists EFF events, and those we feel might be of interest to our members. EFF events (those sponsored by us or featuring an EFF speaker) are marked with a "*" instead of a "-" after the date. Simlarly, government events (such as deadlines for comments on reports or testimony submission, or conferences at which government representatives are speaking) are marked with "!" in place of the "-" ("!?" means a govt. speaker may appear, but we don't know for certain yet.) And likewise, "+" in place of "-" indicates a non-USA event. If it's a foreign EFF event with govt. people, it'll be "*!+" instead of "-". You get the idea. The latest version of the full EFF calendar is available from: ftp: ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/calendar.eff gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF, calendar.eff http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/calendar.eff May 20- 21 ! Internet Privacy and Security Workshop, sponsored by the Privacy and Security Working Group of he Federal Networking Council and the Research Program on Communications Policy Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Haystack Observatory, Boston, MA. Deadline for abstracts: April 14. Contact: Internet Security and Privacy Workshop c/o Joseph Reagle, Research Program on Communications Policy, MIT, One Amherst St. (E40-218), Cambridge, MA 02139 Voice: +1 617 253 4138 Fax: +1 617 253 7326 Email: papers@rpcp.mit.edu May 20- 22 - The Digital Revolution: Assessing the Impact on Business, Education and Social Structures, and ASIS Annual Meeting; San Diego, CA. Notification of intent to submit a paper must be received by November 15, 1995. [NOTE! We've also seen the date given as May 18-22, so you should ask what the correct dates are.] Email: asis96@chestnut.lis.utk.edu URL http://pepper.lis.utk.edu/call.html May 23 - HotWired Electronic Frontiers Forum; online event, 7pm PST "speak"ers will include Gary Chapman. Users can participate via either WWW or telnet. URL: http://www.hotwired.com/club/ Telnet: chat.wired.com 2428 May 28- 31 - Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Contact: +1 617 432 1NET Email: harvnet@harvard.edu URL: http://www.harvnet.harvard.edu May 29- 31 - 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing: Assessing the Reality of New Markets and New Media; Minneapolis Hilton and Towers, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Contact: 303-422-3914 Fax: 303-422-8894 May 30- 31 - "Networked Information: Challenges and Solutions," sponsored by CAUSE and the Coalition for Networked Information, University of Pennsylvania, Phialdephia, PA. Contact: +1 303 939 0315 ------------------------------ Subject: Quote of the Day ------------------------- "There are forces at work that will, if unresisted, take from us our liberties. There always will be. But at least in the United States, our rights are not so much stolen from us as they are simply lost by us. The price of freedom is not only vigilance but also participation." - Phillip L. Dubois (attorney for Phil Zimmermann, author of the controversial PGP encryption program), 1996 Find yourself wondering if your privacy and freedom of speech are safe when bills to censor the Internet are swimming about in a sea of of surveillance legislation and anti-terrorism hysteria? Worried that in the rush to make us secure from ourselves that our government representatives may deprive us of our essential civil liberties? Concerned that legislative efforts nominally to "protect children" will actually censor all communications down to only content suitable for the playground? Alarmed by commercial and religious organizations abusing the judicial and legislative processes to stifle satire, dissent and criticism? Join EFF! Even if you don't live in the U.S., the anti-Internet hysteria will soon be visiting a legislative body near you. If it hasn't already. ------------------------------ Subject: What YOU Can Do ------------------------ * The Communications Decency Act & Other Censorship Legislation The Communications Decency Act and similar legislation pose serious threats to freedom of expression online, and to the livelihoods of system operators. The legislation also undermines several crucial privacy protections. Business/industry persons concerned should alert their corporate govt. affairs office and/or legal counsel. Everyone should write to their own Representatives and Senators, letting them know that such abuses of public trust will not be tolerated, that legislators who vote against your free speech rights will be voted against by you in the next elections. Join in the Blue Ribbon Campaign - see http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html PARTICIPATE IN BLUE RIBBON ACTIVISM EFFORTS: http://www.eff.org/blueribbon/activism.html Support the EFF Cyberspace Legal Defense Fund: http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/cyberlegal_fund_eff.announce For more information on what you can do to help stop this and other dangerous legislation, see: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Alerts/ gopher.eff.org, 1/Alerts http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/ If you do not have full internet access (e.g. WWW), send your request for information to ask@eff.org. IMPORTANT! KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR LOCAL LEGISLATURE. All kinds of wacky censorious legislation is turning up at the US state and non-US national levels. Don't let it sneak by you - or by the online activism community. Without locals on the look out, it's very difficult for the Net civil liberties community to keep track of what's happening locally as well as globally. * New Crypto-Privacy Legislation Urge your Represenatitives to support the Pro-CODE crypto export bill (and to fix the few remaining bugs in it). Join in the Golden Key Campaign! See http://www.eff.org/goldkey.html http://www.privacy.org/ipc/ http://www.crypto.com/ for more info. * Digital Telephony/Comms. Assistance to Law Enforcement Act The FBI has been seeking both funding for the DT/CALEA wiretapping provisions, and preparing to require that staggering numbers of citizens be simultaneously wiretappable. To oppose the funding, write to your own Senators and Representatives urging them to vote against any appropriations for wiretapping. We are aware of no major action on this threat at present, but keep your eyes peeled. It will be back. * Anti-Terrorism Bills Several bills threatening your privacy and free speech have been introduced recently. One passed, but none of the rest them are close to passage at this very moment - however, this status may change. Urge your Congresspersons to oppose these unconstitutional and Big-Brotherish bills, which threaten freedom of association, free press, free speech, and privacy. One such bill passed last week, stripped of most of the more onerous provisions. Keep it up. Write to your legislators: No secret trials and deportations, no expansion of wiretapping scope or authority, no national or "smart-card" ID systems! For more information on some of this legislation, see http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/Terrorism_militias/ * The Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act This bill is unlikely to pass in any form, being very poorly drafted, and without much support. However, the CDA is just as bad and passed with flying colors [the jolly roger?] in Congress. It's better to be safe than sorry. If you have a few moments to spare, writing to, faxing, or calling your Congresspersons to urge opposition to this bill is a good idea. * Medical Privacy Legislation Several bills relating to medical privacy issues are floating in Congress right now. Urge your legislators to support only proposals that *truly* enhance the medical privacy of citizens. More information on this legislation will be available at http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/Medical/ soon. Bug mech@eff.org to make it appear there faster. :) * Find Out Who Your Congresspersons Are Writing letters to, faxing, and phoning your representatives in Congress is one very important strategy of activism, and an essential way of making sure YOUR voice is heard on vital issues. EFF has lists of the Senate and House with contact information, as well as lists of Congressional committees. (A House list is included in this issue of EFFector). These lists are available at: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Activism/Congress_cmtes/ gopher.eff.org, 1/EFF/Issues/Activism/Congress_cmtes http://www.eff.org/pub/Activism/Congress_cmtes/ The full Senate and House lists are senate.list and hr.list, respectively. Those not in the U.S. should seek out similar information about their own legislative bodies. EFF will be happy to archive any such information provided. If you are having difficulty determining who your Representatives are, try contacting your local League of Women Voters, who maintain a great deal of legislative information, or consult the free ZIPPER service that matches Zip Codes to Congressional districts with about 85% accuracy at: http://www.stardot.com/~lukeseem/zip.html Computer Currents Interactive has provided Congress contact info, sorted by who voted for and against the Communcations Decency Act: http://www.currents.net/congress.html * Join EFF! 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