Civil Litigation,
Intellectual Property
Nov. 3, 2015
New copyright rules only a partial win
I seriously considered creating a Halloweeen costume based on Section 1201 of the Digital Milinium Copyright Act, as it gets scarier and scarier every year.
Dan D. Nabel
Principal Counsel
Riot Games
Dan also teaches Video Game Law at USC Gould. His new book, "Video Game Law in a Nutshell," will be available in July 2018 from West Academic."
This Halloween, I gave serious consideration to how I could create a costume based on Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). It gets scarier and scarier every year.
On Oct. 28, 1998, President Bill Clinton signed into law a bill enacting the DMCA (including Section 1201). Back then, Congress had a simple purpose for Section 1201 - to prevent people from breaking digital locks employed by copyright owners to protect copyrighted works (e.g., CSS encryption on Holl...
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