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30 Sep 2016, 6:15 am by Karen Gullo
Even though this kind of research is traditionally a “fair use” permitted by copyright law, Digital Millennium Copyright Act  (DMCA) Section 1201 threatens criminal and civil penalties— including jail time—for performing it or publishing information about the methods of security research. [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 6:00 am by Rebecca Jeschke
One example of this lose-lose proposition is Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which generally prohibits unlocking "access controls" like DRM. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 12:49 pm by Sheppard Mullin
[1] Morel also counterclaimed for violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and violations of the Lanham Act. [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 2:23 pm by Elliot Harmon
The RIAA and a host of other entertainment industry groups recently wrote a memo to President-Elect Trump asking for a major overhaul of the safe harbors system in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). [read post]
27 Jul 2020, 4:32 pm by Cory Doctorow
TPMs Section 1201 of America's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is one of the most catastrophic copyright laws in history. [read post]
24 Nov 2015, 9:21 am by Ben
 Co-director for the Centre and associate professor in law, Dr Dinusha Mendis, told the Bournemouth Daily Echo : “The reforms to copyright law which came about last year were certainly seen as a welcome change and much needed in a digital world dominated by user-generated content and collaborative creators.The World Intellectual Property Organization Deputy Director General responsible for copyright, Anne Leer, has decided to resign her post, citing personal… [read post]
1 Oct 2008, 9:18 am
The suit, notes the WSJ, is likely to hinge on whether RealNetworks “circumvents” the copy-protection software in DVDs, a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [read post]
2 Mar 2007, 5:28 am
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act rendered illegal the practice of reverse-engineering copy protection schemes, thereby preventing hackers from writing programs to rupture DRM software. [4] However, the nature of international interaction undermines even these official legislative issuances. [read post]
21 Sep 2009, 8:59 am
The court concluded that Veoh’s efforts and policies to limit incidents of infringement and to work diligently to keep infringing works off its website satisfy the “safe harbor provisions” that shield it from liability under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”). [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 12:43 am by Michael Geist
FSAC believes that new copyright legislation should not contain any elements comparable to the "anti-circumvention " provisions of U.S. 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which would limit the right to make legitimate copies of copyrighted material within educational contexts, or which would force educators to illegally bypass copy protection systems in order to assert their legitimate rights to reproduce material for educational… [read post]
6 May 2015, 8:28 am by Parker Higgins
Too often, though, that innovation is stifled or hampered by through anti-circumvention rules described in Article 11 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty and codified in places like Section 1201 of the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [read post]
9 May 2016, 10:50 am by Cory Doctorow
Worse: EME could let its creators invoke section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which prohibits you from getting around EME-style restrictions on copyrighted works. [read post]
7 Feb 2018, 2:06 pm by Cory Doctorow
Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act bans any act that weakens or bypasses a lock that controls access to copyrighted works (these locks are often called Digital Rights Management or DRM). [read post]
19 Aug 2019, 8:12 am by Cory Doctorow
The Cycle is Broken In 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, whose Section 1201 bans bypassing a "technical measure" that “controls access” to copyrighted works. [read post]
22 Jul 2010, 12:29 pm by David Kravets
Righthaven, he says, should have sent him a takedown notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, because the article was posted by a user, not the site itself. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 11:31 am by Rebecca Jeschke
Copyright Office today, part of the elaborate, every-three-year process to right the wrongs put in place by the Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). [read post]
3 Oct 2016, 10:06 am by Cory Doctorow
That's because Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- which protects locks that control access to copyrighted works -- has been used to prosecute and harass security researchers who want to warn you about dangers lurking in the equipment you have put your trust in. [read post]
31 May 2017, 3:55 pm by elliot
If the shape of your windshield is patented by Ford, then no one else can replace it without risking costly patent litigation.Ford has a troublesome history with independent repair shops: in 2015, it sued the manufacturer of an independent diagnostics tool under Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the infamous law that makes it illegal to circumvent digital locks on products you own. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 6:53 am by Maxwell Kennerly
Maisel’s lawyers claimed they sought “either statutory damages up to $150,000 for each infringement at the jury’s discretion and reasonable attorneys fees or actual damages and all profits attributed to the unlicensed use of his photograph, and $25,000 for Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) violations. [read post]
17 Jun 2019, 6:05 am by Michael Geist
So yes this is the culmination of a five year review that was actually mandated by the 2012 Copyright Modernization Act. [read post]