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5 May 2016, 8:24 am by Cory Doctorow
These laws, including the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the U.S., have spread around the world. [read post]
19 Apr 2016, 4:46 pm by Cory Doctorow
The problem is Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which prohibits tampering with "effective means of access control" that restricted copyrighted works. [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 9:27 am by David Oxenford
” This safe harbor from liability for user-generated content was adopted in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, and was at that was principally targeted at “bulletin board services” where users would post messages that could conceivably violate copyrights of others. [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 3:43 pm by Cory Doctorow
But EME is designed to allow companies to invoke a notorious law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which contains a clause (section 1201) that lets companies sue the competition for breaking their locks, even if those locks were preventing us from doing something the law allowed. [read post]
4 Apr 2016, 9:31 am by Cory Doctorow
Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a law from the last millennium, endangers anyone who tampers with or removes digital locks, even for legal reasons. [read post]
29 Mar 2016, 6:41 pm by Cory Doctorow
Sections 1201-12031 of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) ban bypassing such restrictions, and have been used to shut down legitimate tools because their makers had to remove a lock to improve existing products, and to silence security researchers who came forward with revelations about defects in covered products. [read post]
18 Mar 2016, 9:18 am by Jonathan Bailey
Spotify will also work with songwriters and publishers to create a database of songwriters to ensure future payments go more smoothly. 2: “Dancing Baby” Appeals Court Decision Stands Minus the “Fair Use” Algorithms Next up today, Ashley Cullins at The Hollywood Reporter Esquire reports that the 9th Circuit has declined to re-hear the “Dancing Baby” case but did amend its previous ruling slightly to remove some of its discussion about how… [read post]
17 Mar 2016, 4:40 pm by Corynne McSherry
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important ruling last Fall in the long-running “dancing baby” case, affirming that copyright holders must consider whether a use of material is fair before sending a takedown notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [read post]
15 Mar 2016, 12:02 pm by Cory Doctorow
What's more, the manufacturers using DRM believe that they have the right to invoke the "anti-circumvention" rules in 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to prevent competitors from removing DRM in order to give you more choice about the products you own. [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 12:44 pm by Cory Doctorow
Laws like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (which has analogs all over the world) give companies the power to make legal threats against people engaged in important, legitimate activities. [read post]
3 Mar 2016, 8:34 am by Corynne McSherry and Shahid Buttar
Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act forbids users from breaking DRM (digital rights management) on works subject to copyright, even if the purpose is a clearly lawful fair use. [read post]
26 Feb 2016, 9:29 am by Elliot Harmon
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides for a notice-and-takedown process whereby content owners can disable access to allegedly infringing content. [read post]
25 Feb 2016, 3:26 pm by rainey Reitman
Soulseek has existed for as long as it has in large part because it has complied with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor provisions. [read post]
18 Feb 2016, 9:33 am by Mitch Stoltz
Pay-TV services and major studios use contractual requirements, patent license conditions, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to limit the functionality of home video devices. [read post]
12 Feb 2016, 10:22 am by Joe Mullin
(credit: Wikipedia) Well-known copyright lawyer Marc Randazza used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to delete an online article about a dispute between his former employer and himself. [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 10:01 am by Elliot Harmon
The companies may then attempt to remove a negative review by filing a takedown request under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 12:08 pm by Maira Sutton
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which has created so many unintended negative consequences for people's freedom of expression, access to knowledge, and digital security, would they have set these rules into the TPP? [read post]
21 Jan 2016, 3:31 pm by Elliot Harmon
§ 512), which were enacted in 2000 as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [read post]
20 Jan 2016, 11:29 am by Kit Walsh
Two legal regimes threaten those freedoms, though: Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and restrictive Terms of Use to which you theoretically agree when you buy a device containing software. [read post]
12 Jan 2016, 3:27 pm by Cory Doctorow
Around the world, laws like the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Canada's C-11, New Zealand's Bill 92A; and accords like the European EUCD, the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and the US-Australian and US-Korean Trade Agreements establish special legal protections for DRM. [read post]