Online Copyright: 2001 Update, Part I

7/9/01


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Table of Contents

Online Copyright: 2001 Update, Part I

Coverage

I. Anticircumvention Law

DeCSS

DeCSS Litigation: Universal City Studios v. Reimerdes

DeCSS Held to Violate Device Ban

DeCSS Does Not Become Exempt By Enabling Fair Uses

1st Amendment No Bar to Application of Anticircumvention Provisions

Appeal to Second Circuit

Felten & SDMI Dispute

Copyright Office Rulemaking

Copyright Office Rulemaking

II. Liability for Linking

Linking and Anticircumvention: Reimerdes

Links as Trafficking

First Amendment Challenge Rejected

First Amendment Limitations

III. New Media, News Uses: Tasini

Copyright Status

17 U.S.C. § 201(c)

Supreme Court Decision

Majority Opinion

Consequences: Existing Material

Consequences: New Material

Consequences: New Uses Generally

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Author: CIC

Email: treese@mail.law.utexas.edu

Home Page: http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/areese