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Article: Copywrong.(inequities of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
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- Reason
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hurts the public interest
here's a war going on over the state of copyright law in this country, but it's a war whose battles are largely being fought covertly. On the occasions when the conflicts are made public, they have not been recognized for what they signify. What has gone mostly unseen and unremarked upon is the effort by industries who benefit from copyright law to shift the balance of the law forever in their favor, and away from the public interest that, according to Article I of the U.S. Constitution, is supposed to be the beneficiary of copyrights. (The Constitution expressly says that copyright and patent laws ...