Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Difference between revisions

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===Anti-Circumvention rule===

The DMCA prohibits breaking any digital lock that "effectively controls access" to a copyrighted material.<ref name=":0" /> Initially created under the premise of preventing internet piracy, critics have been apt to point out the ways that corporations have abused this legal restriction. Cory Doctorow argues that the rule prevents competition and "the creation of legitimate, otherwise legal technologies."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |date=2015-12-01 |title=I Can’t Let You Do That, Dave |url=https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/i-cant-let-you-do-that-dave/ |url-status=live |website=Communications of the ACM}}</ref>

How the DMCA anti-circumvention actually law came about is a very interesting story, from Harvard Law School course on Copyright Law. (<nowiki>https://youtu.be/QVe6dCuJ4M0?t=6m44s</nowiki>) In short: A former media industry lobbyist Bruce Lehman abused his position on the WPIO to insert a failed proposal to congress for DRM anti-circumvention, into a new international treaty. He then returned to congress and told them they must accept the clause to fulfill the obligations of that treaty.

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 ===Anti-Circumvention rule===
 The DMCA prohibits breaking any digital lock that "effectively controls access" to a copyrighted material.<ref name=":0" /> Initially created under the premise of preventing internet piracy, critics have been apt to point out the ways that corporations have abused this legal restriction. Cory Doctorow argues that the rule prevents competition and "the creation of legitimate, otherwise legal technologies."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |date=2015-12-01 |title=I Can’t Let You Do That, Dave |url=https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/i-cant-let-you-do-that-dave/ |url-status=live |website=Communications of the ACM}}</ref>
+How the DMCA anti-circumvention actually law came about is a very interesting story, from Harvard Law School course on Copyright Law. (<nowiki>https://youtu.be/QVe6dCuJ4M0?t=6m44s</nowiki>)  In short: A former media industry lobbyist Bruce Lehman abused his position on the WPIO to insert a failed proposal to congress for DRM anti-circumvention, into a new international treaty. He then returned to congress and told them they must accept the clause to fulfill the obligations of that treaty.
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