The new US anti-circumvention provision: Heading in the wrong direction

✍ Scribed by Jonathan Band; Taro Isshiki

• Book ID: 104322328
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 856 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0267-3649
• DOI: 10.1016/s0267-3649(99)80044-2

✦ Synopsis

Both treaties require contracting parties to provide legal remedies against the circumvention of technological measures which protect authors' copyrights. To comply with this requirement, Congress added a new chapter, Chapter 12, toTitle 17 of the United States Code (USC).The new chapter passed by Congress is much more balanced than the Administration's initial proposal, which was introduced in Congress in 1997. Nonetheless, the final provision still contains deep flaws which will hamper legitimate uses of technology and copyrighted works.