Digital Millennium Copyright Act,DMCA DMCA: Chilling Effects (according to?)

 Copyright law of United States  Anti-circumvention (1201) aspects of DMCA  Passed in 1998, general industry support  Prevents legitimate back-up/archive  Controversial on (at least) two fronts  Fair use “under siege”  Inhibits free speech  Rules against circumvention  Can’t try to bypass DRM, CSS, …  Impedes innovation, science, invention, …  Despite research exceptions  Safe Harbor provisions  What happens on violation or threat of?  Protect online service providers (blogs?)  Review and comments every three years

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DMCA: Safe Harbor Happy Birthday (Oct 28, 1998) DMCA!

 DMCA saved the web (2.0) Blogs, search engines, e-commerce sites, video and social-networking portals  Safe harbor provision (512) is indispensable are thriving today thanks in large part to the notice-and-  No knowledge of offense! takedown regime ushered in by the much-  Take down notices maligned copyright overhaul. A decade ago,  Counter notice when the DMCA was enacted, these  Eligible for safe-harbor? innovations were unheard of, embryonic or not yet conceived. Now, Google has grown into one of the world's largest companies, and  If I post a video to YouTube that infringes… its video-sharing site YouTube has left an  Who gets in trouble? enduring mark on public discourse.

Compsci 82, Fall 2009 7.3 Compsci 82, Fall 2009 wired on DMCA ten years later7.4 DMCA: Takedown notice? DMCA and chilling effects

 Notice and take down for copyright  Dmitry Sklyarov, Elcomsoft, 2001 infringement  Arrested? Conference?  Ivan Hoffman on the DMCA  Ed Felten, SDMI, 2001  chillingeffects.org on DMCA  RIAA urges reconsideration  To submit a takedown notice, provide:  Princeton Profs anti-circumvention song  Complainant: name, address, e-signature  Alex Halderman, Sony rootkit  Location of infringement, e.g., link  Ben Edelman and CIPA (children’s internet  Affirm: no legal basis for use of materials protection act)  Affirm: act on behalf of copyright holder  Research, tools, distribution, “just sue”

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Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) DMCA in the News (Fall 2009)

 DeCSS  Flickr changes takedown policy  How does DVD encryption work?  Changes? Lobbyists?  What is GPL issue with original code?  Brute force attack on 40-bit key beyond  Blogger changes policy DeCSS  Allows for edit/reposting  Apple, iTunes, Fairplay, DRM  Change from “removal”  Digital Rights Management  iPhone  Veoh wins, YouTube next?  Hacker Jon  Liability for infringing use

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