Digital Millennium Copyright Act
| Synonyms: | DMCA | |
| See also: | Legal Analysis, Copyright, Fair Use, Intellectual Property, Cease & Desist, Creative Commons | |
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act or more commonly, DMCA is a United States copyright law. It implements two treaties of the The World Intellectual Property Organization.[1]
The law concerns Digital Rights Management (DRM), a set of measures used to restrict access to copyrighted material. The law criminalizes circumventing DRM as well as producing or supplying the means to do so.
Under DMCA, the penalties for copyright infringement online were increased.
The DMCA and Fandom
Fandom mainly encounters DMCA in the form of take down notices for vids and AMVs that use audio or video tracks that are subject to copyright. (See YouTube for information on how YouTube implements DMCA.)
On 26 July 2010, the Organization for Transformative Works announced that the U.S. Library of Congress had granted an exemption from DMCA restrictions for ripping DVDs to make fanvids.[2] The current exemption applies solely to video (not audio) source. It will last two years, at which point the case for an exemption will need to be made again.
References
- ↑ Wikipedia:Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- ↑ US Library of Congress Grants DMCA Exemption for Vidders!!, dated July 26, 2010. Accessed August 25, 2010.
