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WORLD Page 14 THE BATTALION I hurbday, Jaiia- China initiates control BEIJING (AP) — China has ex tended its vague state secrets law to the Internet, ordering companies to register software used to transmit sensitive data and threatening pun ishment for any government secrets sent onto the Web. The regulations, announced Wednesday, could scare off foreign firms eager to tap China’s booming Internet market. They also under score the communist leadership's ambivalent desire to exploit the In ternet for business while constricting information considered threatening to its rule. Everyone, from Internet sites to chat-room users, must gain approval from agencies protecting govern ment secrets before publishing pre viously unreleased information on the Web, according to the States Se crecy Bureau regulations released in the People's Daily. “It's like saying you want to devel op railroads and then thron ing down a difterent gauge track not used anywhere else in the world,” William Soileau, an infonnation technology 7 lawyer with Denton Hall in Beijing, said. Perhaps most chilling for business are regulations requiring companies and individuals to register with the gov ernment, by Monday, all software used to protect transfers of sensitive inf or mation. They require companies to hand over the serial numbers and list the employees using the software; possibly making it easier for the government to track use. So-called encryption software is used to prevent prying into everything from electronic mail to banking settle ments. Popular products like Netscape Web browsers contain encryption soft ware, as do some Microsoft products. China passed the regulations quiet ly in October. But the foreign business community became alarmed when the commission published a follow-up di rective in November. That order said that foreign compa nies wishing to sell products using en cryption software — such as programs that operate Websites — would have to submit the source code, or software blueprints. Software deemed unaccept able would have'to be replaced with Chinese encryption softw are. Toss it up he pi stal: “new rq*>rting< clas wou |Fhe pr letter t nuniher o CODY WAGES7*t< Sophomore heptathlete. Kendra Relmer. throws a shotput at the track complex, in pr for the upcoming season. Picasso Estate sells name for Frenchi PARIS (AP) Pots and pans in Chi na, underwear in Southeast Asia, trucks in Chile, and now, a car from France. I lard to believe they’re all Picassos. In name only, of course. The Paris- based Picasso Estate, which represents the artist's heirs, spends millions yearly fight ing the illicit use of what is arguably the most famous name in 20th century art. Which is why many French were shocked when the Estate gave its bless ing — for a price it refused to reveal — to the new Citroen Xsara Picasso, a snappy, high-sitting town car billed as practical and fun to drive. Putting the name to the car “is a strategic decision designed to prevent other companies from stealing the name and usim> it,” Claudia Andrieu, the Picasso I slate's legal adviser, said. “It's the family’s approach to battling takes, she said in a telephone interx tew. “A do-nothing attitude leads to exploitation Some purists, however, arc horrified by what they see as crass commercialism. “Assimilating genius with a mass- produced consumer item is scan dalous,” wrote Picasso Museum direc tor Jean Clair in the daily Liberation. Clair said he was offended by Cit- roen's latest ad campaign, which de picts a tough-looking museum guard restraining a visitor from touching a nude bather in Picasso’s “Figures au bord de la Mer" (Figures At the Shore). The visitor then is presented a Picas so he CAN touch — the new Xsara. Clair said the ad ridiculed the Picasso Museum, h to protect it the gtuii •sscoUecit UIH-UflSCl the hdki heirs, k*i s motiwi 1C PJ their lortunc ap| pears to hits them from need % The I’icasso 1 stale rcprcsfi V tcrests of Claude and PakmPi children of Franc oise (iikt; Mi so. tlie daughter o 4 Mane-Thea and his grandchih Iren Mannari ■ Picasso, bom tot he artist’s sat m Andrieu said the family fended by the ad. and Stsj partnership will i C itroen. 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