Its main goal is to make e-commerce transactions more secure, but the technology could eventually be used to protect copyright.
The MP3 format has rapidly spurred the growth of Web sites that offer downloadable music as well as a controversy over how to protect the copyright of that music.
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Federal law makes it unlawful to circumvent technological measures employed by copyright owners to protect their property, including software.
They serve as functional items, not as forms of art, making it a lot harder to obtain a copyright law to protect them.
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Congress acted to implement an international treaty that it was told would protect U.S. copyright owners who were losing literally billions of dollars a year on bootleg copies of their works.
The point of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was to protect content holders and prevent piracy.
As everyone knows, copyright laws exist to protect owners of the copyrighted work from having their music or films downloaded without paying their rightful owner a royalty fee.
Professor Harnad argues that what is at issue is what he calls 'self piracy': copyright was drafted to protect the author from theft of his product - but academics would be dealing with their own work, so comparisons with the widespread net piracy of music, text or software do not apply.
Our nation's copyright laws were enacted to protect original works.
The center would investigate infringement of the Economic Espionage Act designed to protect trade secrets, as well as traditional copyright and trademark violations.
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One purpose of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is to protect the technology of file sharing, and companies that use it, by inventing a theoretical "safe harbor" that shelters all sorts of user-powered platforms from the consequences of illegal actions by the users.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1999 prohibits users from circumventing technological locks that protect proprietary content.
The provisions protect web service providers from infringement liability if they remove infringing material when requested by copyright holders.
"Suddenly CCTV was facing this copyright issue themselves, and they'd paid millions for an exclusive broadcast license that they wanted to protect, " Wang says.
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