USTR on decompilation of computer programs

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

Your tax dollars at work.  The USTR announcement of countries put on the Special
301 Watch list contains this and several other interesting bits.
  jamie


http://www.ustr.gov/releases/1998/05/98-44.pdf

USTR announces results of Special 301 Review

In June 1997, the Philippines enacted a comprehensive IPR Code which represents
a major step toward TRIPS compliance for copyrights, patents, and trademarks,
and created a new Intellectual Property Office within the Department of Trade
and Industry. Unfortunately, the law contains a number of ambiguous or
problematic provisions, principally an exception for the decompilation of
computer programs and overly broad restrictions on technology licensing. 

    [snip]


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James Love
Consumer Project on Technology
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