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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act : Exemptions to the Prohibition on Circumvention / Kate Manuel, Brian T. Yeh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manuel, Kate, author.
- Yeh, Brian T., author.
- Series:
- CRS report for Congress ; RL33887.
- CRS report for Congress ; RL33887
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Copyright and electronic data processing--United States.
- Copyright and electronic data processing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (15 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 2007.
- Summary:
- Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in 1998, in part, to help copyright owners protect their exclusive rights against infringement facilitated by digital technologies, including the Internet. Section 1201 of the DMCA outlaws circumvention of any access control devices, such as password codes, encryption, and scrambling, that copyright owners may use to protect copyrighted works. The DMCA's prohibition on circumvention is not absolute, however. In addition to several statutory exceptions to the general anti-circumvention provision, the DMCA authorizes the Librarian of Congress, upon the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, to grant temporary exemptions in order to ensure that the public may use certain copyrighted works in non-infringing ways, including engaging in "fair use" of such works.
- Notes:
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