Anticipating a lawsuit by the major Hollywood motion picture studios, in April 2002, 321 Studios filed a pre-emptive complaint against eight Hollywood studios contending that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law that prohibits the circumvention of copy protection technology, violates consumer rights as provided in the Fair Use doctrine of the Copyright Act of 1976.
The legal status of derivative fan made art in America may be tricky due to the vagaries of the United States Copyright Act.
In 1995, the First Circuit found that command menus are an uncopyrightable "method of operation" under section 102(b) of the Copyright Act.
He helped the Senator draft the language and negotiate the compromises that resulted in the passage of the Copyright Act of 1976.
Erlich's act of sending a message to a.r.s. caused reproductions of portions of plaintiffs' work on both Klemesrud's and Netcom's storage devices, and these reproductions were sufficiently "fixed" to constitute recognizable copies under the Copyright Act.
Mr. Marks also represents the industry on legislative issues, having led negotiations on behalf of the industry that resulted in comprehensive revisions to the Copyright Act.
was a 2000 case by the United States District Court for the Central District of California finding that deep linking did not violate the Copyright Act of 1976 because it did not involve direct copying.
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