Groups Say U.S. Imposed National Book Ban

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com>
Date: September 28, 2004 2:12:18 PM EDT
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Subject: fwd: Groups Say U.S. Imposed National Book Ban

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> POSTED: 7:25 am EDT September 28, 2004
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> NEW YORK -- Several organizations representing publishers and authors 
> are suing the federal government saying it's blocking the works of 
> authors in countries such as Cuba, Iran and Sudan from reaching the 
> United States.
>
> In the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court, the groups asked a federal 
> judge to remove government rules that block the free exchange of 
> information and ideas.
>
> The lawsuit notes that authors in those countries already work under 
> government restrictions and blamed the U.S. Treasury Department's 
> Office of Foreign Assets Control for, in effect, extending "foreign 
> censorship to the United States."
>
> The office was named as a defendant because it enforces U.S. trade 
> embargo rules requiring publishers to obtain licenses to edit articles 
> and books by authors in some other countries.

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