Death by DMCA.

Death by DMCA.

This paper discusses the digital millennium copyright act (DMCA), which gives copyright holders new rights to control the way people use copyrighted material and new protection for technologies designed to restrict access or copying. The movie and record companies argued they needed these new restri...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE spectrum 43, 6 (2006).
Main Author: Von Lohmann, F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
DMCA.
US entertainment companies.
Access restriction.
Analog hole closure.
Broadcast flag legislation.
Consumer electronics devices.
Copying restriction.
Copyrighted material.
Digital millennium copyright act.
Digital radio.
Entertainment industry.
Hard disk recorders.
Piracy threats.
Radio flag bill.
Restrictive legislation.
Television broadcasts.