Information Landmine

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Friday, December 15, 2006

Do votes cast electronically become Intellectual Property?

Diebold seems to think so.

1 Comments:

Blogger Uncle Petie said...

This whole case is amazing. Diebold have repeatedly tried to use copyright law and anti-circumvention laws like the DMCA to shield themselves from scrutiny. Ed Delten at www.freedom-to-tinker.com is really good on a lot of the technical issues behind this, if anyone's interested.

20 December, 2006 14:11  

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