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Computer underground Digest    Mon  Nov 25, 1996   Volume 8 : Issue 83
                           ISSN  1004-042X

       Editor: Jim Thomas (cudigest@sun.soci.niu.edu)
       News Editor: Gordon Meyer (gmeyer@sun.soci.niu.edu)
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CONTENTS, #8.83 (Mon, Nov 25, 1996)

File 1--WIPO Database Treaty -- Sign-on letter
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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 12:25:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: File 1--WIPO Database Treaty -- Sign-on letter

Source - fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From--"Craig A. Johnson" <caj@tdrs.com>
Date--         Tue, 12 Nov 1996 10:51:02 +0000

Declan,

Your readers may be interested in this serious threat to "fair use"
and the transmission of "facts" online.

Craig

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Interested organizations/companies are invited to sign onto the
following letter, which addresses concerns that have been raised
regarding a proposed new Treaty concerning access to electronic
databases.  The Treaty is expected to be discussed at the diplomatic
conference in Geneva this December on behalf of the World Intellectual
Property Organization.  The proposed Treaty grants a new property
right to database owners, which does not incorporate a public "fair
use" doctrine, or other traditional copyright conventions.

Recent analyses of the Treaty by Jamie Love of the Consumer Project on
Technology indicates that the Treaty will create a new property right
in facts and other data now in the public domain.  It would, for
example, significantly change the way sports statistics are controlled
and disseminated, and also impact the way that stock prices, weather
data, train schedules, data from AIDS research and other facts are
used and controlled.

Jamie writes:

    The treaty seeks, for the first time, to permit firms to "own"
    facts they gather, and to restrict and control the redissemination
    of those facts.  The new property right would lie outside (and on
    top) of the copyright laws, and create an entirely new and
    untested form of regulation that would radically change the
    public's current rights to use and disseminate facts and
    statistics.  American University Law Professor Peter Jaszi
    recently said the treaty represents "the end of the public
    domain."

Copies of the proposed treaty, a federal register notice
asking for public comment, and independent commentary can be
found at: http://www.public-domain.org/database/database.html

Details and analyses on the Treaty can be found on the Web at:
http://www.public-domain.org, and CPT's "primer" on the treay and
analysis of the impact on sports statistics is available at:
http://www.essential.org/cpt/ip/wipo-sports.html

Copyright experts J.H. Reichman and Pamela Samuelson say  it is the
"least balanced and most potentially anti-competitive intellectual
property rights ever created."
[http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/reisamda.html]

Organizations that wish to sign onto this letter should contact Susan
Evoy at CPSR, evoy@cpsr.org.  Comments on the Treaty are due by Nov.
22, so signatures are requested as soon as possible.

Craig
------------------------------------

Commissioner Bruce Lehman
Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. Department of Commerce


Dear Commisioner Lehman:

We, the undersigned organizations, are writing to express our concern
over the "Draft Treaty in Respect to Databases" to be discussed at the
diplomatic conference in Geneva this December on behalf of the World
Intellectual Property Organization (the "Treaty").  The proposed
Treaty grants a new sui generis property right, which does not
incorporate a public "fair use" doctrine, or other traditional
copyright conventions.

If enacted as proposed,  the Treaty will do violence to the
long-established practice in the academic and scientific communities
of sharing information for educational and research purposes and will
commercialize certain information that is and has always been freely
available.

Section 1.03 of the proposed Treaty claims that current technology
allows databases to be reproduced at "practically no cost."  This is
not true.  An online database is a complex system with much underlying
structure that the user never sees.  Accessing or copying large
portions of the database at minimal or no cost is simply not feasible.
But, the proposed Treaty would make the use of databases by the public
or scientific and research communities even more prohibitive by
permitting database owners or vendors to arbitrarily determine what
portion of a database can be extracted, used, or reused.

Section 1.04 of the proposed Treaty argues that the originality
requirement of U.S. Copyright law does not provide sufficient
protection for database producers.  This statement is curious in light
of a long U.S. legal tradition protecting free speech and authorship
on the grounds that facts cannot be copyrighted or otherwise removed
from the public domain.  By creating a new property right for facts,
the Treaty will impose regulations on the use of facts -- an idea that
flies in the face of American history and values.  The twin dangers
are that we will now have to pay to buy collections of "facts" in the
public domain, which we did not have to pay for before and that
monopolies will be sanctioned and created by the Treaty. In other
words, the Treaty strikes down "fair use" and extends sui generis
protections to public and private collections.

Section 1.04 becomes increasingly incomprehensible in light of the
Section 10.05 proposal that "Contracting Parties may design the exact
field of application of the provisions envisaged in this Article
taking into consideration the need to avoid legislation that would
impede lawful practices and the lawful use of subject matter that is
in the public domain."  In order to implement the spirit of Section
10.05, Section 1.04 and its progeny must be discarded.

Consider the numerous categories of public information for which only
one practical and/or cost effective information source exists.  The
practical result of the Treaty will be to create commercial monopolies
on these public information sources.  Examples include telephone
directory information, weather data, "official" sports statistics,
government data administered under private contracts (such as the
Official Airline Guide data) and other similar public information.

It is shocking that the United States Government is seriously
considering supporting a proposal that will operate to maximize
profits to a small number of database vendors at the expense of the
public at large without first undertaking a careful domestic review of
these concerns.  We urge you to examine this issue through
Congressional hearings and other meaningful public discussion.

Sincerely,
Marcy J. Gordon, Esq.
66 Pearl Street #307
New York, NY 10004-2443660	(212)514-9514   mgordon@pipeline.com

On behalf of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

Audrie Krause
Executive Director
NetAction
601 Van Ness Avenue, No. 631
San Francisco, CA 94102         (415) 775-8674  akrause@igc.org

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 12:14:12 -0600
From: Larry Lessig <Lawrence_Lessig@SSRN.Com>
Subject: File 2--CYBERLAW: No. 1, November 7, 1996

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                      CYBERSPACE LAW ABSTRACTS
                              Number 1
                          November 7, 1996
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                              Editor:
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                           ACCEPTED PAPERS
                        (see abstracts below)
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     "The Ancient Doctrine of Trespass to Web Sites"  (Journal of
      Online Law, Forthcoming)

          TROTTER HARDY          William & Mary School of Law


     "Law And Borders--The Rise of Law in Cyberspace" (Stanford
      Law Review, Forthcoming May 1996)

          DAVID R. JOHNSON       Counsel Connect
          DAVID G. POST          Georgetown University Law Center


     "The Essential Role of Trusted Third Parties in Electronic
      Commerce" (75  Oregon Law Review 49, 1996)

          A. MICHAEL FROOMKIN    University of Miami School
                                 of Law


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                            WORKING PAPERS
                        (see abstracts below)
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     "Eggs In Baskets: Distributing The Risks Of Electronic
      Signatures"

          BENJAMIN WRIGHT         Attorney at Law


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     "The Ancient Doctrine of Trespass to Web Sites"

          Journal of Online Law, Forthcoming

      BY: TROTTER HARDY
            William & Mary School of Law

          CONTACT:  Trotter Hardy
          E-MAIL:   MAILTO:thardy@facstaff.wm.edu
          POSTAL:   Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of
                    William & Mary, Williamsburg VA 23187
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          LSN-REF:  CYBERLAW:APS96-001

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     from http://www.ssrn.com/CyberLaw/lawpaper.html


     The common law action of trespass to real property served to
     establish and preserve the very notion of "property" in
     land. Many of the words used to describe Web sites have a
     basis in real property: the word "site" itself is one, as
     are such expressions as "home" pages, "visiting" Web sites,
     "traveling" to a site and the like. This usage suggests that
     the trespass action might appropriately be applied to Web
     sites as well. The question is not merely academic, for the
     "obvious" protections-technology and copyright law-may not
     work. That analogies to real property trespass *can* be made
     does not suggest, however, that they *should* be made. The
     fundamental issue is whether the treatment of Web sites as
     property makes sense in light of the justifications for the
     institution of property generally. Four strands of property
     theory-Locke's natural rights, Bentham's utilitarianism,
     Hardin's "tragedy of the commons," and Radin's "property as
     personhood"-turn out to yield strong justifications for
     treating Web sites as property and hence for the application
     to them of the common law of trespass.


     ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


     "Law And Borders--The Rise of Law in Cyberspace"

          Stanford Law Review, forthcoming 1996

      BY: DAVID R. JOHNSON
            Counsel Connect
          DAVID G. POST
            Georgetown University Law Center

          CONTACT:  David R. Johnson
          E-MAIL:   MAILTO:david.johnson@counsel.com
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                    Washington, DC 20001
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     Global computer-based communications cut across territorial
     borders, creating a new realm of human activity and
     undermining the feasibility--and legitimacy--of applying
     laws based on geographic boundaries.  While these electronic
     communications play havoc with geographic boundaries, a new
     boundary, made up of the screens and passwords that separate
     the virtual world from the "real world" of atoms, emerges.
     This new boundary defines a distinct Cyberspace that needs
     and can create new law and legal institutions of its own.
     Territorially-based law-making and law-enforcing authorities
     find this new environment deeply threatening. But
     established territorial authorities may yet learn to defer
     to the self-regulatory efforts of Cyberspace participants
     who care most deeply about this new digital trade in ideas,
     information, and services.  Separated from doctrine tied to
     territorial jurisdictions, new rules will emerge, in a
     variety of on-line spaces, to govern a wide range of new
     phenomena that have no clear parallel in the nonvirtual
     world.  These new rules will play the role of law by
     defining legal personhood and property, resolving disputes,
     and crystallizing a collective conversation about core
     values.


     ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


     "The Essential Role of Trusted Third Parties in Electronic
      Commerce"

          75 Oregon Law Review 49 (1996)

      BY: A. MICHAEL FROOMKIN
            University of Miami School of Law

          CONTACT:  Michael Froomkin
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     The article describes the role of "Certification
     Authorities" (CAs) in the emerging field of electronic
     commerce.  CAs issue certificates to participants in
     electronic commerce that provide indicia of identity or
     authority, or supply a transactional timestamp. Several
     states, including California, Utah, Washington, Florida,
     Georgia, and New Mexico, have passed ,or are considering,
     legislation to regulate CAs; the article seeks to inform
     this process by examining the law applicable to the issuance
     of digital certificates absent specific legislation.  As
     part of an effort to identify legal problems CAs are likely
     to engender, the article examines a CA's potential liability
     if a customer tricks a CA into issuing a false identity
     credential.  Among the issues discussed are the size of the
     class of foreseeable relying parties and whether the CA
     produces a "good" or a "service" or a hybrid of the two
     under Article 2 of the U.C.C.  The article concludes with a
     survey of the major arguments for and against regulation of
     CAs, and cautions against over-hasty grants of blanket
     immunity of CAs against liability for their own negligence.


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                      WORKING PAPER ABSTRACT
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     "Eggs In Baskets: Distributing The Risks Of Electronic
      Signatures"

      BY: BENJAMIN WRIGHT
            Attorney at Law

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     Electronic commerce brings questions about how to sign, or
     evidence legal approval of, electronic documents.  Evidence
     that a person approved a particular electronic document
     might be gathered many different ways.  The article
     evaluates two ways, one using public-key cryptography and
     the other using pen biometrics.  It compares the philosophy
     for mananaging risk in the Utah Digital Signature Act with
     that behind a signature technology known as PenOp.


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     A. MICHAEL FROOMKIN
       Associate Professor of Law, University Miami School of Law
       Fellow, Cyberspace Law Institute; Member of Editorial
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       Royal Institute of International Affairs

     I. TROTTER HARDY
       Professor of Law, William and Mary School of Law; Editor,
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     DAVID R. JOHNSON
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     ETHAN KATSH
       Professor of Legal Studies, University of Massachusetts at
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       Assistant Professor, University of Texas School of Law;
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       Quarterly Journal; Advisory Editor, Texas Intellectual
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       William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law,
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       Professor of Law and of Information Management, University
       of California at Berkeley; Contributing Editor,
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       Frontier Foundation

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