Question for lawyers... (Score 2, Interesting)

So, the copyright transfer form also says this:

(1) the information contained in any materials submitted to the IEEE in connection with the Work is not subject to any restriction related to its disclosure, because it is not defense-related, classified, or subject to any other disclosure restrictions by any government, including the United States government, that has authority to restrict the dissemination of such information

If I understand this ritght, the author is supposed to make sure the work is not restricted in any way in any country. I.e. the author has to know the law of every country on this planet! Am I reading this correctly?

(disclosure: I have signed one of these once, but I do not remember this clause either. It's possible it was there already but that I didn't pay enought attention.)

Also, it seems like all foreign authors now also must comply with the DMCA if they want to be published in an IEEE publication. I wonder what happens if they sign, but the work is later found to be in violation of the DMCA. Can you be prosecuted for that even if you don't live in the US, or performed the work in the US?

This leaves me with a lot of questions...