Unintended Consequences [electronic resource] : Twelve Years under the DMCA / Fred Von Lohmann.
Since they were enacted in 1998, the "anti-circumvention" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"), codified in section 1201 of the Copyright Act, have not been used as Congress envisioned. Congress meant to stop copyright infringers from defeating anti-piracy...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Since they were enacted in 1998, the "anti-circumvention" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"), codified in section 1201 of the Copyright Act, have not been used as Congress envisioned. Congress meant to stop copyright infringers from defeating anti-piracy protections added to copyrighted works and to ban the "black box" devices intended for that purpose. In practice, the anti-circumvention provisions have been used to stifle a wide array of legitimate activities, rather than to stop copyright infringement. This document collects reported cases where the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA have been invoked not against pirates, but against consumers, scientists, and legitimate competitors. (Contains 89 endnotes.) |
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| Physical Description: | 26 pages. |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials) Text (Reports, Descriptive) |
| Preferred Citation of Described Materials Note: | Electronic Frontier Foundation. |