A controversial reform of the U.S. copyright laws that is the first attempt to update those laws for the age of digital technology. It covers circumvention...
An influential piece of legislation, which was passed into American law in 1998 in order to protect copyright holders from the effects of digitalisation.
legislation that implements two World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaties into U.S. Copyright Law: the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. The first major provision requires contracting parties to provide legal remedies against circumventing technological protection measures to gain unauthorized access to a copyrighted work. The second provision facilitates enforcement of the copyright owner's right to control access to his copyrighted work by prohibiting the manufacturing or making available technologies, products and services that are used to defeat technological measures controlling access.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (or "DMCA") was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1998. It includes prohibitions against circumventing "technical protection measures", such as encryption, or distributing circumvention tools. (17 U.S.C. § 1201 et seq.) It also includes a "safe harbor" that protects ISPs from secondary copyright liability, so long as they "expeditiously" remove content or links to materials that a copyright owner claims infringe. (17 U.S.C. § 512.)
(DMCA) was signed into law on October 28, 1998. The legislation implements two 1996 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaties: the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. The DMCA also addresses a number of other significant copyright-related issues including technology-related items, computers, distance learning, and others. See www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law which criminalizes production and dissemination of technology whose primary purpose is to circumvent measures taken to protect copyright, not merely infringement of copyright itself, and heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet. Passed on October 8, 1998 by a unanimous vote in the United States Senate and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 28, 1998, the DMCA amended title 17 of the US Code to extend the reach of copyright, while limiting the liability of Online Providers from copyright infringement by their users.
