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- Title
The Prospects for Protecting News Content Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
- Authors
Barnes, Priya
- Abstract
The DMCA was enacted to provide adequate legal safeguards against piracy so that content producers, such as music, software, movie and other media producers, would be incentivized to embrace the digital medium. The antitrafficking provision, in particular, imposes civil and criminal sanctions on technology manufacturers who offer the means to circumvent content producers' digital access controls. Since its enactment, the DMCA's antitrafficking provisions have been invoked against hackers of digital music, movies and software. This article weighs the prospects for applying the antitrafficking provisions against news aggregators who access password protected digital news content for redistribution. It concludes that while the case law is mixed on specific interpretations of the DMCA's antitrafficking provisions, its protections could be invoked against news aggregators that bypass access controls without a news website's authorization to do so.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNITED States. Digital Millennium Copyright Act; PIRACY prevention (Copyright); DIGITAL media; MUSIC; MOTION pictures; COMPUTER software
- Publication
Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law, 2012, Vol 3, Issue 1, p201
- ISSN
2153-1323
- Publication type
Article