more on ] It's a crime to edit for publication...?

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Cherry <s.cherry () ieee org>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 08:36:30 
To:dave () FARBER NET, ip () v2 listbox com
Subject: Re: [IP] It's a crime to edit for publication...?

Dave,

As it happens, we at the IEEE had our semi-annual all-hands staff 
meeting last week. There, executive director Dan Senese said that not 
only is the license process obviously distasteful, it's also not 
clear the State Department is granting them. At least, we still 
haven't gotten one, and no one else seems to have either. We were 
told that our attorneys continue to press our application.

Otherwise, the situation hasn't changed much since November, when 
Spectrum magazine wrote up the story to date 
<http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/nov03/1103nvs.html>.

I'm not the person to make official statements for the organization, 
but I can tell you first-hand that it's been a very painful matter 
for our volunteer editors, for the editorial staffs of the 
transactions and the magazines, and for the Institute leadership to 
have to treat Iranian articles differently.

  Steven

At 4:34 AM -0500 2/28/04, Dave Farber wrote:
> Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu
> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:22:00 -0800
> From: "Glenn S. Tenney CISSP" <glenn_ip () think org>
> Subject: It's a crime to edit for publication...?
> To: dave () farber net
>
> [for IP if you'd like]
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/28/national/28PUBL.html?pagewanted=print&position=
>
> Treasury Department Is Warning Publishers of the Perils of Criminal 
> Editing of the Enemy
> By ADAM LIPTAK
>
> Writers often grumble about the criminal things editors do to their 
> prose. The federal government has recently weighed in on the same 
> issue - literally.
>
> It has warned publishers they may face grave legal consequences for 
> editing manuscripts from Iran and other disfavored nations, on the 
> ground that such tinkering amounts to trading with the enemy.
>
> Anyone who publishes material from a country under a trade embargo 
> is forbidden to reorder paragraphs or sentences, correct syntax or 
> grammar, or replace "inappropriate words," according to several 
> advisory letters from the Treasury Department in recent months.
>
> Adding illustrations is prohibited, too. To the baffled dismay of 
> publishers, editors and translators who have been briefed about the 
> policy, only publication of "camera-ready copies of manuscripts" is 
> allowed.

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   Steven Cherry, +1 212-419-7566
   Senior Associate Editor
   IEEE Spectrum, 3 Park Ave,  New York, NY 10016
   <s.cherry () ieee org>  <http://www.spectrum.ieee.org>

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