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a database. And, under this treaty the ability to construct an
index of a web site, which of necessity involves retrieving the
information from the web site would appear to fall under the
"right to authorize or prohibit the extraction" terms of the
proposed treaty.
It is impractical for search services to gain permission to index
every web site on the net, and as a result the only options would
be for search services to either flout the law, hoping that their
infringements won't be prosecuted, or to cease providing this
valuable service to the users of the Internet.
We hope these comments help highlight some of the serious issues
raised by the proposed database treaty. We believe the treaty has
been developed through abstract theoretical considerations, and that
many of the practical consequences of this treaty have not been
carefully considered.
If recent U.S. court decisions make it necessary to make changes in
database protection law, we believe this should be achieved through
carefully considered legislative changes to the U.S. Copyright Act.
No form of Sui Generis protection is desireable, and especially not
one achieved via an international treaty. We feel it will only be
appropriate to consider an international treaty defining the scope of
protection for databases if and when an acceptable set of changes have
been made to the U.S. Copyright Act.
The WIPO database treaty was based on an inadequate understanding of
the scope of its applicability and its resulting effects. We find the
treaty to be ill-considered and inappropriate. In view of the effect
it would have on the Internet and the future U.S. computing
infrastructure, we urge the U.S. work to have this treaty removed from
further consideration at the WIPO conference.
Thank you for considering our opinions.
Respectfully,
Gordon Irlam
Internet Technology Analyst -- Mountain View, California
L. Peter Deutsch
ACM Fellow
ACM Software System Award co-recipient
President, Aladdin Enterprises -- Menlo Park, California
Michael Tiemann
Director, Cygnus Support -- Mountain View, California
Luther Welsh, Jr.
President, NDA Technologies, Inc. -- Tustin, California
Steve Shannon
President, Coffeehaus Networks, Corp. -- Boston, Massachusetts
Rodney H. Kay
President, Kay Communications -- Tampa, Florida
Philip Peake
CEO, Newberg Webcenter -- Newberg, Oregon
Dean Anderson
President, Plain Aviation, Inc. -- Nashua, New Hampshire
Dan Connolly
Research Scientist -- Cambridge, Massachusetts
Tim Pearson
Author of "Internet Marketing", published by John Wiley & Sons
Director, FutureLink -- San Francisco, California
Laura Kusumoto
Director of Production, LVL Interactive -- Santa Clara, California
Bodo Parady
Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems -- Menlo Park, California
Joseph Kiniry
Graduate Student & Consultant -- Pasadena, California
David S. Miller
Software Engineer -- East Brunswick, New Jersey
James Salsman
Systems Analyst -- Mountain View, California
Greg Merrell
Senior Network Consultant -- Cupertino, California
Todd Clayton
System Software Engineer -- San Francisco, California
Jonathan Ryshpan
Software Project Manager -- Oakland, California
Frank Arnold
Webmaster, Catholic Charities -- San Jose, California
Marla Pereira
Software Engineer -- California
Adam Rifkin
Graduate Student -- Pasadena, California
Ray Baco
Technical Support Supervisor -- Durham, North Carolina
Stanley T. Shebs, Ph.D.
Software Manager -- Mountain View, California
John Stoner
Internet Consultant -- Fox River Grove, Illinois
Robert Stacy
Law Student -- Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Blaise Pabon
Network Analyst -- Mountain View, California
Fen Labalme
Software Architect -- San Francisco, California
Brian Harvey
Lecturer, Computer Science Division, University of California,
Berkeley -- Berkeley, California
Prasad Wagle
Software Engineer -- Mountain View, California
John Sadler
Software Engineer -- Palo Alto, California
Richard Swan, Ph.D.
Computer Scientist -- Portola Valley, California
David Hough
Software Engineer -- San Jose, California
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