USA: Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 establishes a felony punishable by a five year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine for a first offense for bypassing an "access control" for a copyrighted work.
USA DMCA 1998, section 1201 criminalises access control bypassing for copyrighted works. (like video's at that time)
Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act. Signed into law by President Bush on November 2, the TEACH Act loosens the restraints created by the DMCA insofar as education is concerned
TEACH Act - loosens DMCA in favor of fair use
More importantly, the idea of Fair Use was effectively removed from Web-based education because of the DMCA
Fair Use revoked b/c of DMCA
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed in Oct. 1998 "to implement United States treaty obligations and to move the nation's copyright law into the digital age.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
anyone who wishes to remove speech for whatever reason
so non-copyright owners can submit DMCA takedown requests??
Media firms issue DMCA takedown notices with stupid carelessness. There should be penalties for false claims.
But, I still worry that some of the specific actions used to paint this picture are (1) potentially taken out of context, (2) are presented in a way that likely misrepresents the actual situation and (3) could come back to haunt other online services who are providing perfectly legitimate services.
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/582068295366410240
https://news.vice.com/article/kim-dotcoms-extradition-to-the-us-has-now-been-cleared-by-a-judge
Every three years, the Librarian of Congress issues new rules on Digital Millennium Copyright Act exemptions. Acting Librarian David Mao, in an order (PDF) released Tuesday, authorized the public to tinker with software in vehicles for "good faith security research" and for "lawful modification." The decision comes in the wake of the Volkswagen scandal, in which the German automaker baked bogus code into its software that enabled the automaker's diesel vehicles to reduce pollutants below acceptable levels during emissions tests.
The U.S. policy response followed an established pattern of defending intellectual property holders’ rights with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
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For example, if you upload your favorite episode of Law & Order onto your WordPress site, NBC can send a DMCA takedown notice to WordPress requesting you remove the episode. If WordPress then fails to take action, it could be on the hook for contributory infringement.