Student Projects:DMCA

Full Text of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998
U.S. Copyright Office's Summary of the DMCA

Team Members</br></br> Henry Mitchell</br> Shaun Padden</br> Amir Rahim</br> Breese Stevens, UCSD, breeses@cox.net, User:Breeses</br></br>

Project Statement</br></br> We will do something related to the DMCA.
Details to follow....</br></br>

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
  • 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.
    • CNET article, "Arguments made in DVD-cracking case"
    • The Openlaw/DVD forum
• Further amendments and future of DMCA with a predicted move to digital media