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  Enforcement: Copyright Management and Control Technologies


With the increased ease of the reproduction and transmission of unauthorized copies of digital works over electronic networks concerns among the copyright holder community have arisen. They fear a further growth of copyright piracy and demand adequate protection of their works. A development, which started in the mid 1990s and considers the copyright owner's apprehensions, is the creation of copyright management systems. Technological protection for their works, the copyright industry argues, is necessary to prevent widespread infringement, thus giving them the incentive to make their works available online. In their view the ideal technology should be "capable of detecting, preventing, and counting a wide range of operations, including open, print, export, copying, modifying, excerpting, and so on." Additionally such systems could be used to maintain "records indicating which permissions have actually been granted and to whom".




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Copyright
    Intellectual Property and the "Information Society" Metaphor
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-3   Challenges for Copyright by ICT: Digital Content Providers
-2   Linking and Framing: Cases
-1   Positions Towards the Future of Copyright in the "Digital Age"
0   Enforcement: Copyright Management and Control Technologies
+1   Copyright Management and Control Systems: Pre-Infringement
+2   Copyright Management and Control Systems: Metering
+3   Copyright Management and Control Systems: Post-Infringement
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Recent "Digital Copyright" Legislation: European Union
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1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT)
The 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty, which focused on taking steps to protect copyright "in the digital age" among other provisions 1) makes clear that computer programs are protected as literary works, 2) the contracting parties must protect databases that constitute intellectual creations, 3) affords authors with the new right of making their works "available to the public", 4) gives authors the exclusive right to authorize "any communication to the public of their works, by wire or wireless means ... in such a way that members of the public may access these works from a place and at a time individually chosen by them." and 5) requires the contracting states to protect anti-copying technology and copyright management information that is embedded in any work covered by the treaty. The WCT is available on: http://www.wipo.int/documents/en/diplconf/distrib/94dc.htm



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