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What is Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)

Chapter 56
Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration
Enacted in 1998. In spring 1999, the U. S. Copyright Office conducted public hearings to recommend changes to the DMCA in support of distance education through digital technologies.
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Fair Use and the Digital Age
Lawrence A. Tomei (Robert Morris University, USA)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch056
Abstract
Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of “original works of authorship” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works. For example, a copyright protects original works of authorship giving the holder exclusive rights to reproduce or copy, produce derivative works based on the copyrighted work, distribute copies of the work, perform the work freely, and display the work publicly.
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Chapter 31
Game Console Protection and Breaking It
A united state law that defines what constitute of fair use by the end-user and what constitutes as piracy or DRM violation. The DMCA criminalizes production of devices whose sole perhaps is breaking DRM.
Published in Chapter: Game Console Protection and Breaking It; From: Encyclopedia of Criminal Activities and the Deep Web
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