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Intellectual Property

Nov. 28, 2000

Circumvention Navigation

Copyright owners enjoy a separate cause of action against those who gain unauthorized access to their encrypted digital entertainment properties.

        By John M. Genga
        
        On Oct. 28, the second of two so-called "anti-circumvention provisions" of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act took effect. At about the same time, and as required by the act, the U.S. Copyright Office issued regulations exempting certain classes of works from the statutory prohibition on circumve...

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