Comments on: Professor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Sharing Drone Plans With Students http://bkpark.com/2009/07/03/professor-gets-4-years-in-prison-for-sharing-drone-plans-with-students/ Everything about Byung Kyu Park Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:20:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: F. http://bkpark.com/2009/07/03/professor-gets-4-years-in-prison-for-sharing-drone-plans-with-students/comment-page-1/#comment-46 F. Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:09:17 +0000 http://byungkyupark.com/?p=102#comment-46 It doesn't sound like treason to me, although it sounds like he broke the law. From what I understand, he didn't give them any classified information, but just broke an export control law. From the very little I've heard or read, EAR and ITAR laws are a bit out of date, and a lot of businesses and entrepreneurs find them to be unnecessarily onerous and would like them changed, especially now that there are so many international business endeavors under foot. Things can get really complicated when you are a citizen of the US, but you work in two different countries (one of which is the US) or have a close collaboration with someone in a foreign country. Especially when you work on multiple projects that are all in the same vein but not all under the military contract that stipulates such restrictions. Most of the news articles about this case have done a very poor job of reporting these details. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/compliance/powerpoint/Export_Control_Overview.ppt It doesn’t sound like treason to me, although it sounds like he broke the law. From what I understand, he didn’t give them any classified information, but just broke an export control law. From the very little I’ve heard or read, EAR and ITAR laws are a bit out of date, and a lot of businesses and entrepreneurs find them to be unnecessarily onerous and would like them changed, especially now that there are so many international business endeavors under foot. Things can get really complicated when you are a citizen of the US, but you work in two different countries (one of which is the US) or have a close collaboration with someone in a foreign country. Especially when you work on multiple projects that are all in the same vein but not all under the military contract that stipulates such restrictions. Most of the news articles about this case have done a very poor job of reporting these details.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/compliance/powerpoint/Export_Control_Overview.ppt

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