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Article: A riff on fair use in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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- University of Pennsylvania Law Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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INTRODUCTION
In late 1998, the United States Congress enacted its most sweeping revisions ever to the Copyright Act of 1976.(1) Under the title Digital Millennium Copyright Act,(2) this amendment institutes radical changes, from protecting boat hulls with sui generis rights,(3) to permitting maintenance of computer systems without the consent of copyright owners whose software may, by chance, be copied in the process,(4) to mandating respect for copyright management information.(5)
The most important feature of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act institutes anti-circumvention provisions into U.S. copyright law. The details of the resulting section 1201, ...