Recent Uses of Software and the DMCA

One of the motivations for enacting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was the acknowledgement by Congress of "the ease with which pirates could copy and distribute a copyrightable work in digital form was overwhelming the capacity of conventional copyright enforcement to find and enjoin unlawfully copied material." Among the provisions created to redress this rampant infringement were the prohibitions against: 1) removing copyright management information (CMI); and 2) circumventing technological measures in place to prevent infringement. Each is controversial.

10 minute read June 01, 2016 at 12:00 AM
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Richard Raysman and Peter Brown
Recent Uses of Software and the DMCA

One of the motivations for enacting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. '1201 et seq., was the acknowledgement by Congress of “the ease with which pirates could copy and distribute a copyrightable work in digital form was overwhelming the capacity of conventional copyright enforcement to find and enjoin unlawfully copied material.”

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