Published November 1, 2006
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DRM: Valid Protection or Abusive Control?
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Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems are often touted by the copyright material distribution industry as a 'solution' to the 'problem' of digital content and peer-to-peer sharing of copyright information. We introduce the law and technology overlap issues this generates, and present some motivating examples as to why this is an area in need of significant academic study. This record was migrated from the OpenDepot repository service in June, 2017 before shutting down.
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- 1 R Dawkins The Selfish Gene Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989. 2 World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty 1996. 3 US Congress Digital Millenium Copyright Act 1998, H.R. 2281. 4 European Parliament and Council of the European Communities Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society 2001, OJ L 167, pp 10-19. 5 See ch 10, p. 152 of L Lessig Free Culture Penguin, Harmondsworth, UK, 2004.