[MilCom] Re: Policy Question Public Posting of Logs with Copyright Restriction

[Bill Jones]

> I can't speak for others to the practice of this procedure so I am strictly
> speaking for myself.  I started adding the copyright notice about a year ago.  
> It was brought to my attention that some frequency and talkgroup information
> which I originally posted happened to find its way in print in a commercial
> publication.  This in itself didn't bother me, what bothered me was the fact the
> publication labeled the source as "anonymous".     

Is it possible that they were actually doing you a favor by labeling it as 
anonymous?  Although I used to know it almost by heart, I have long since given 
up trying to keep up with all the amendments to the Comm. Act of 1934 over the 
last 2 decades.  It is now way to complicated for me to hope to understand.  
However it used to be that while it was perfectly legal for anyone to listen to 
most communications, that it was not legal to tell others about the content 
and/or the frequencies of most communications.  I know that this rule has been 
almost uniformly ignored both before and after the recent amendments, but it 
was something that always hung overhead in that it could be enforced if they 
wanted to come after you for some other reason.  But "if" that segment of the 
regulation is by chance still in effect, perhaps by labeling the report as 
anonymous, both the publication and the individual is off the hook?
   Is anyone familiar enough with the NEW communications act to comment on 
whether the prohibition on divulging the content/freq of certain communications 
monitored is still in effect?  Just curious. 





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