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How to Achieve (Some) Balance in Anti-Circumvention Laws.

In this article the authors discuss copyright, fair use, and software development. The authors offer their views on the World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998. The authors believe that the U.S. Congress failed to achiev...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 21 - 26
Main Authors: Samuelson, Pamela, Reichman, Jerome H., Dinwoodie, Graeme
Format: Editorial
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Feb2008
Subjects:
Electronic information resources
Computer software development
Copyright piracy software
Government policy
Fair use (Copyright)
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:In this article the authors discuss copyright, fair use, and software development. The authors offer their views on the World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998. The authors believe that the U.S. Congress failed to achieve a balance of interests (for producers and consumers) when they established new rules forbidding circumvention of technical protection measures (TPMs) used by copyright owners.