Interoperability under the DMCA

Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), passed by Congress in October of 1998, implements the provisions of the World Intellectual Property Organization Internet Treaties relating to technological protection measures. Specifically, section 1201 prohibits the development, distrib...

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Hauptverfasser:	Band, Jonathan, Katoh, Masanobu
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Applied sciences Business Business economics Civil law Commercial production Communications & Telecommunications Computer engineering Computer operations Computer science Computer software Copyright infringement Copyright laws Copyrights Courts of law Cryptography Federal circuit courts Federal courts Federal district courts Information Science Intellectual property law International law Internet Studies Interoperability Judicial system Language Law Linguistics Orthographies Production engineering Property law Reverse engineering Technology Treaties United States courts
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Zusammenfassung:	Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), passed by Congress in October of 1998, implements the provisions of the World Intellectual Property Organization Internet Treaties relating to technological protection measures. Specifically, section 1201 prohibits the development, distribution, and use of technologies that circumvent other technologies that protect an author’s copyright. Developers of interoperable software explained to Congress that this prohibition could prevent reverse engineering that was necessary for achieving interoperability. If a software vendor placed on a program a software “lock” that prevented reverse engineering of the program, the circumvention of that software lock would violate section 1201.
DOI:	10.7551/mitpress/8592.003.0005