Student Projects:DMCA
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Full Text of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998
U.S. Copyright Office's Summary of the DMCA
Team Members
- Henry Mitchell
- Shaun Padden
- Amir Rahim
- Breese Stevens
Project Description
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Some initial ideas:</br></br>
- The DMCA’s provisions for protection of works on the Internet
- "To DVD or not to DVD" – the anti-infringement component of the DMCA
- Section 1201 of the DMCA – the DMCA’s anti-circumvention prohibition.
- Describing how this prohibition made copyright law controversial
- DMCA seen as introducing new threats Uninted Consequences: Five Years Under the DMCA
- Four major schools of thought in the DMCA copyright controversy
- DMCA’s impact on the traditional concept of copyright’s "fair use"
- Concerns of the DMCA’s effect on academics and research
- Digital Rights Management (DRM) – this is backed by the DMCA
- Historical Origins + actual statement and implication of the law
- International guidelines/jurisdiction and how this is enforced
- Freedom of speach or burglary tool:
- The “DVD Copy Control Association v. Bunner” case of posting of the DeCSS code which cracked DVD's.
- Further amendments and future of DMCA with a predicted move to digital media