What the British want to see is a Digital Copyright Exchange, a market where digital rights can be processed rapidly and cheaply.
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The court ruling marks a victory for the film studios and could have an impact on digital copyright laws of the future.
The MPAA's argument is mirrored in several other cases concerning digital copyright issues, including the case against Napster and this week's suit by the entertainment industry against Scour.com, a movie-swapping Website.
The two face lawsuits from Sony under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act for publishing methods that break the digital protections on the PlayStation 3 to allow the use of unauthorized programs.
Meanwhile, the rules are being tightened in Europe, where the European Parliament has endorsed a copyright directive that, like America's existing Digital Millennium Copyright Act, would give rights-holders more protection and consumers less choice.
After the Librarian of Congress declared that unlocking a cellphone violated copyright law under the DMCA (that's Digital Millennium Copyright Act) activists kicked into high gear in an attempt to prevent or reverse the decision.
The U.S. Copyright Office created an exemption last summer in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for users to jailbreak their own devices, despite Apple's objections that the ruling could open phones to dastardly hackers and even lead to "catastrophic" attacks that crash cellphone towers.
Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 1998, making it illegal to access copyrighted content and break digital rights management technologies.
Pinterest, itself, is well-protected from lawsuits because of its policies and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The point of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was to protect content holders and prevent piracy.
One of the key issues in the case is the interpretation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Google receives 20 million "takedown" requests, officially known as DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notices, a month.
Their argument is rooted, ironically, in the Digital Millenium Copyright Act that U.S. lawmakers approved in 1998.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1999 prohibits users from circumventing technological locks that protect proprietary content.
The industry's most powerful legal weapon in the United States is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The site has already had to remove several designs after receiving takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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The case centered on whether YouTube qualified for a safe harbor created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA).
Fung argued that he was shielded from liability by the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
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Determining whether Google will face a similar fate is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a notoriously murky law created in 1999.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act could also inhibit innovation, argue its critics.
Encryption codes like the one revealed on Digg are covered by the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a notoriously murky piece of legislation.
But unlike Real DVD, those programs break the encryption on discs and thus violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's prohibition on circumventing copyright protections.
The current enforcement approach for larger content distributors is the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), which enables law enforcement to submit immediate takedown notices.
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The record industry body argued that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act allowed them to subpoena information about suspected pirates without first seeking a judge's blessing.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation won regulatory approval for three exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, including one that covers jailbreaking smartphones.
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Thanks in part to her conversations with legal experts about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, she concluded that her potential legal liability would be small.
The bill gives consumers new avenues to unlock their devices and media under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in ways that do not infringe on copyright.
Like Google, exfm is a registered DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act 1998) safe harbor and will comply to any take-down orders for infringing links from copyright holders.
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This means that the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) against claims of copyright infringement.
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They argue that the software is illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which prohibits the distribution of software or devices intended to circumvent copyright protections.
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