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The Breadth Of The Anti-Trafficking Provisions And The Moral High Ground, Jessica D. Litman
The Breadth Of The Anti-Trafficking Provisions And The Moral High Ground, Jessica D. Litman
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This is a cautionary tale. Back in 1996, 1997 and 1998, the law prohibiting circumvention of "access controls" was conceived, described and defended on the ground that it was very narrow. Initially, "access" was intended to mean initial access - the digital equivalent of breaking into a bookstore to steal a book. Copyright owners, though, insisted that "access controls" should also include devices to facilitate pay-per-view. Since that would require protecting works against continuing access, copyright owner lobbyists resisted any narrowing language. Still, when opponents of section 1201 complained to Congress that the language before it might give copyright owners …
Digital Copyright And The "Progress Of Science, Jessica D. Litman
Digital Copyright And The "Progress Of Science, Jessica D. Litman
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Let me start with a truism: Networked digital technology has transformed information and the way we interact with it. Digital information is dynamic rather than fixed. What we think of as “documents” can change constantly. That’s challenged our notions of what it means to archive material.