Digital Millennium Copyright Act. (DMCA) Essay -- Rights Copyright Res

digital millenary Copyright performance. (DMCA) MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - Bill provide was arrested late thorium evening at Moscow International Airport. Gates, co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), was returning to the US after attending a software conference in Moscow. Sources indicate the NKVD arrested Gates on charges pursuant(predicate) to an alleged violation of Russian software police force. The charges were reportedly filed by the Russian software firm Camah, presumably in response to the young release of Microsoft pass on eBook Processor. (This software allows users to convert Camah eBook texts into other formats.) As a foreign national, Gates was denied bail. Yeah, right. you think. Thats absurd. It could never happen. A U.S. citizen arrested in Russia for violating a Russian law while in the United States. Unfortunately, change the names, swap the roles of Russia and the United States, and it happened quite recently. How? Thanks to a 60 page piece of legislation known as the digital Millennium Copyright Act. (DMCA) To understand the DMCA, we must understand what it was designed to do. The name gives away a few clues. Obviously it deals with procures, and things digital. And at the the core of whatsoever discussion of copyright is the concept of bright property. Without getting mired in legal jargon, let us consider an example. Pretend youre a musician. (Ill leave it up to you to decide if youre sharp-set or not) Simplifying things greatly, there are really only two things you have to do to produce an album. The first is coming up with the lyrics and the music. This is your intellectual property. Second, you need to disgrace and make copies of your music. (Unless you went with starving above) These copies are physi... ...ca.org (Mar 2002). Boucher, Rick (D-VA) Time to rewrite the DMCA Jan 29, 2002 http//news.com.com/2010-1078-825335.html (Mar 2002) Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access v iew as Technologies Feb 17, 2000 http//www.acm.org/usacm/IP/dmca.exemption.htm (Mar 2002) Digital Millennium Copyright Act Status And Analysis Mar 19, 2001 http//www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/dmca.html (Mar 2002) US Copyright Office Summary of the Digital Millennum Copyright Act of 1998 December 1998 http//lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf (Mar 2002) Ferguson, Niels Censorship in action Silenced by the DMCA Aug 29, 2001 http//www.macfergus.com/niels/dmca/ (Mar 2002) Samuelson, Pamela Anticircumvention Rules Threat to Science Sep 14, 2001 http//www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/ effective/293/5537/2028 (Mar 2002) Digital Millennium Copyright Act. (DMCA) Essay -- Rights Copyright ResDigital Millennium Copyright Act. (DMCA) MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - Bill Gates was arrested late Thursday evening at Moscow International Airport. Gates, co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), was returning to the US after attending a software conference in Moscow. Sources indicate the NKVD arrested Gates on charges pursuant to an alleged violation of Russian software law. The charges were reportedly filed by the Russian software firm Camah, presumably in response to the recent release of Microsoft Advanced eBook Processor. (This software allows users to convert Camah eBook texts into other formats.) As a foreign national, Gates was denied bail. Yeah, right. you think. Thats absurd. It could never happen. A U.S. citizen arrested in Russia for violating a Russian law while in the United States. Unfortunately, change the names, swap the roles of Russia and the United States, and it happened quite recently. How? Thanks to a 60 page piece of legislation known as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. (DMCA) To understand the DMCA, we must understand what it was designed to do. The name gives away a few clues. Obviously it deals with copyrights, and things digital. And at the the core of any discussion of copyright is the concept of intellectual property. Without g etting mired in legal jargon, let us consider an example. Pretend youre a musician. (Ill leave it up to you to decide if youre starving or not) Simplifying things greatly, there are really only two things you have to do to produce an album. The first is coming up with the lyrics and the music. This is your intellectual property. Second, you need to record and make copies of your music. (Unless you went with starving above) These copies are physi... ...ca.org (Mar 2002). Boucher, Rick (D-VA) Time to rewrite the DMCA Jan 29, 2002 http//news.com.com/2010-1078-825335.html (Mar 2002) Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies Feb 17, 2000 http//www.acm.org/usacm/IP/dmca.exemption.htm (Mar 2002) Digital Millennium Copyright Act Status And Analysis Mar 19, 2001 http//www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/dmca.html (Mar 2002) US Copyright Office Summary of the Digital Millennum Copyright Act of 1998 December 1998 http//lcweb.loc.gov/copyri ght/legislation/dmca.pdf (Mar 2002) Ferguson, Niels Censorship in action Silenced by the DMCA Aug 29, 2001 http//www.macfergus.com/niels/dmca/ (Mar 2002) Samuelson, Pamela Anticircumvention Rules Threat to Science Sep 14, 2001 http//www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/293/5537/2028 (Mar 2002)