Property RIghts in Keys

[Nicholas Bohm]

In responding to what Steven M. Bellovin wrote about GeoTrust, I
mentioned the low UK copyright law requirement for creativity.

As a postscript to that observation, I draw attention to s9(3) of the UK
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988:

(3) In the case of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work which
is computer-generated, the author shall be taken to be the person by
whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the work are undertaken.

And s178 provides the definition:  "computer-generated", in relation to
a work, means that the work is generated by computer in circumstances
such that there is no human author of the work.

These provisions seem to me to work quite aptly to encompass a key-pair.

Nicholas Bohm
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