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Another Goofy Legal Disclaimer on a Press Release

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
October 8, 2013
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Keith’s note: I just got a press release from the Alaska Aerospace Corportation (as did 53 others) with this legal disclaimer on it:
“The U.S. Export Control Laws regulate the export and re-export of technology originating in the United States. This includes the electronic transmission of information and software to foreign countries and to certain foreign nationals. Recipient agrees to abide by these laws and their regulations — including the U.S. Department of Commerce Export Administration Regulations and the U.S. Department of State International Traffic in Arms Regulations — and not to transfer, by electronic transmission or otherwise, any content derived from this email to either a foreign national or a foreign destination in violation of such laws.”
Since no one has told me what might be ITAR sensitive in this email – or the citizenship/nationality of everyone who might read anything I might write/post, I guess that I cannot “transfer, by electronic transmission or otherwise, any content derived from this email to either a foreign national or a foreign destination in violation of such laws.” Why do people put wording like this on press releases contained in emails which are, by their very nature, supposed to spur the republishing of their content as widely as possible by the news media? Goofy.

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