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- Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)search for term
- The Digital Millennium Copyright Act addresses online copyright issues. The Act builds upon treaties signed at the World Intellectual Property Organization Geneva conference, and was supported by the software and entertainment industries. The DMCA's highlights include the outlawing of the circumvention of anti-piracy measures built into most commercial software, as well as forbidding the manufacture, sale, or distribution of code-cracking devises to illegally copy software. It does, however, allow the cracking of copyright protection devices in order to conduct encryption research, assess products, and test computer security systems. The DMCA limits the liability of both nonprofit organizations of higher education and Internet service providers from copyright infringement liability, but the latter are expected to remove materials from users' websites that appears to constitute copyright infringement. Finally, the DMCA requires that webcasters pay licensing fees to record companies. The DMCA requests that the Register of Copyrights report back to Congress with recommendations on how to balance the rights of copyright owners with the needs of users.
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