IP: USACM against SSSCA

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:33:55 -0500
> To: dave@farber.net
> From: Gene Spafford <spaf@cerias.purdue.edu>
> Subject: USACM against SSSCA
>
> If any IP'ers have not yet read about the SSSCA, they should.
>
> USACM is the Public Policy Committee of the ACM.
>
> > September 26, 2001
> >
> > The Honorable Ernest F. Hollings
> > Chairman
> > Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
> > SR-254 Russell Senate Office Building
> > Washington, D.C.  20510
> >
> > Dear Chairman Hollings:
> >
> > We recently learned that you intend to introduce legislation to require 
> > computer and electronics manufacturers to include digital watermark 
> > technology or other copyright-protection technologies in the production 
> > of certain products and multi-use devices.  As the Co-Chairs of the U.S. 
> > Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 
> > we are writing to express our deep concern regarding the potential 
> > legislative proposal known as the Security Systems Standards and 
> > Certification Act (SSSCA)....
>
> Remainder of the letter is available at <http://www.acm.org/usacm/#news>



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