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17 U.S.C. § 1201 - DMCA Anti-Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems

No person may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under the Copyright Act, and no person may…

What 17 U.S.C. § 1201 - DMCA Anti-Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems requires

No person may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under the Copyright Act, and no person may manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing access controls under § 1201(a)(2) or rights controls under § 1201(b)(1), subject to the preservation of fair use and other copyright defences in § 1201(c)(1), the statutory exemptions in § 1201(d) through (j) - library, archives, and educational institution evaluation, law enforcement and intelligence activity, reverse engineering for interoperability, good-faith encryption research, and security testing - and the triennial rulemaking exemptions issued by the Librarian of Congress under § 1201(a)(1)(C) for classes of works whose users are adversely affected by the access-control prohibition.

Pillar: Creative, Content & Media IP · Authority: U.S. Congress (enactment); U.S. Copyright Office and Librarian of Congress (triennial exemption rulemaking under § 1201(a)(1)(C)) · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:

Primary source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

SHA-256 integrity: 4850501b8b6cca978595d7b435c536e1d8a53ee4470aa5be32e0c14fb1261822

Primary Citations — 11 traced to source

  • 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1)(A): 'No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.'
  • 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1)(C): triennial rulemaking authority of the Librarian of Congress, who during the 2-year period and during each succeeding 3-year period shall make the determination in a rulemaking proceeding of whether persons who are users of a copyrighted work are adversely affected by the prohibition.

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