How Copyright Became Controversial
Drew Clark,
Conference on Computers, Freedom, Privacy,
May 15, 2002
A cogent and frustratingly fair treatment of the issues involved in the current copyright debate, this article neatly summarizes some of the major recent cases involving copyright law and presents the positions of four major factions in the debate: "1) supporters of government-mandated DRM technologies, 2) supporters of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention language, 3) those who emphasize the importance of copyright’s “fair use†doctrine and criticize the DMCA for undermining it, 4) critics of the current state of copyright law, including all uses of the DMCA, and highlight its clash with free speech rights."
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