SRCH Overview
The Clearing House tracks the governmental regulation of software development.Links
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| Citation | 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1)(A) |
| Text | (1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. . . . (3) As used in this subsection˜ (A) to „circumvent a technological measure‰ means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and (B) a technological measure „effectively controls access to a work‰ if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work. |
| Features | to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner |
| Regime | Criminal - Felony |
| Law | Digital Millennium Copyright Act |
| Created/Updated | Tue Mar 21 14:21:37 -0800 2006 / Thu May 25 12:43:41 -0700 2006 |
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