Shortly before Christmas, the Senate Judiciary Committee released the discussion draft of a bill to amend the copyright law, primarily the sections known as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. There is something in the proposals for everyone to like or hate, but it is important to keep in mind that this is the starting point for what will ...
On September 16th, the IP Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearing number five in its ongoing review of the 22-year-old Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The subject was Title I of the DMCA, also referred to as §1201, which proscribes the circumvention of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies used to protect copyrighted works distributed through digital systems. When the ...
With the first three DMCA review hearings before the Senate Subcommittee on IP, it was fairly easy to identify the salient matters most likely to survive beyond this inquiry period and become part of the substantive debate on possible legislative revision. For instance, the need to more clearly define constructive, or “red flag,” knowledge in Section 512 is a recurring ...
How many times have comments about copyright included some variation on the theme “I would not pirate, if the revenue went to the artists instead of big corporations.”? Not only is this sentiment a fallacy based on ignorance about how the creative markets work, but these insincere claims to support the real creators ring especially hollow in context to those ...
Yesterday afternoon, the Senate Judiciary Committee (part of it anyway) held the third hearing in its ongoing review of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (1998). A handful of senators convened in the Rayburn building while witnesses testified via video conference. The title of this hearing was Is the DMCA’s Notice-and-Takedown System Working in the 21st Century? Notice-and-Takedown is also referred ...
