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  Copyright Management and Control Systems: Pre-Infringement


Pre-infringement copyright management and control systems that inhibit or control infringement of intellectual property may be put into place by copyright owners before distributing their works. Examples are:

Contracts

Contracts are a pre-infringement control method, which very often is underestimated. Properly formed contracts enable copyright holders to restrict the use of their works in excess of the rights granted under copyright laws.

Copy Protection

This approach was standard in the 1980s, but rejected by consumers and relatively easy to break. Still copy protection, whereby the vendor limits the number of times a file can be copied, is used in certain situations.

Limited Functionality

This method allows copyright owners to provide a copy of the work, which is functionally limited. Software creators, for example, can distribute software that cannot print or save. A fully functional version has to be bought from the vendor.

Date Bombs

Here the intellectual property holder distributes a fully functional copy but locks off access at a pre-specified date or after a certain number of uses.




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Copyright
    Intellectual Property and the "Information Society" Metaphor
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-3   Linking and Framing: Cases
-2   Positions Towards the Future of Copyright in the "Digital Age"
-1   Enforcement: Copyright Management and Control Technologies
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+1   Copyright Management and Control Systems: Metering
+2   Copyright Management and Control Systems: Post-Infringement
+3   Problems of Copyright Management and Control Technologies
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