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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Observations and Critical Questions Max Vilimpoc 2002 WISE Intern Prepared For the Washington Internship for Students of Engineering The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. August 2002 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 3 Overview of Copyright Law 4 Overview of the WIPO Treaties 5 Overview of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act 5 Title I 6 Catalog of Title I - Circumvention Cases 7 Motion Picture Association of America v. 2600 Magazine 7 United States v. Sklyarov 12 United States v. ElcomSoft Co. Ltd 13 Secure Digital Music Initiative v. Felten 16 Norway Economic Crime Unit v. Johansen 18 Title II: Notice and Takedown 19 Catalog of Title II - Notice and Takedown Cases 20 Church of Scientology v. Google, Inc. 20 Blizzard Entertainment v. bnetd Project 21 Conclusion and Recommendations 22 Supplementary Definitions 24 Fair Use 24 Injunctions 24 Prior Restraint 24 Circumvention 25 Circumvention Devices 25 Bibliography 26 Endnotes 28 2 Introduction The protection of intellectual property is a fundamental asset to the development of mankind. The right of authors and inventors to work freely with the potential to earn a solid living has fueled the fire of innovation from the earliest of civilization. Towards the development of our own nation, Congress was granted the authority to guarantee inventors exclusive rights to the fruits of t