H.R. 2281 · 105th Congress · enacted
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Became Public Law No: 105-304.
Latest official action 1998-10-28 · Enacted
The bill, briefly
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: WIPO Treaties Implementation Title II: Internet Copyright Infringement Liability Title III: Ephemeral Recordings; Distance Education; Exemption for Libraries and Archives Title IV: Related Provisions Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 - Title I: WIPO Treaties Implementation - WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act - Requires the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to issue regulations, effective at the end of the two-year period beginning on the enactment of this Act, that prohibits: (1) circumvention of technological protection measures that control access to protected works; or (2) manufacturing or trafficking in technology designed to circumvent measures that control access to, or protect rights of copyright owners in, such works. Requires, during the two-year period and each succeeding two-year period, the Secretary to conduct a rulemaking on the record to determine whether users of copyrighted works have been, or are likely to be in the succeeding two-year period, adversely affected by the implementation of technological protection measures that effectively control access to protected works in their ability to make lawful use of copyrighted works. Waives the applicability of the issued regulations for the ensuring two-year period for each particular class of copyrighted works for which the Secretary has determined that lawful uses have b…
Congressional Research Service · 1998-07-22
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