The Dangers of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Much Ado About Nothing?

Name: The Dangers of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Much Ado About Nothing?
Cite: SSRN
Year: 2008
Bluebook cite: Steve Calandrillo, The Dangers of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Much Ado About Nothing?, SSRN 2008 (available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1262042) (forthcoming in Wm. & Mary L. Rev.).
Author: Steve Calandrillo
URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1262042
Item Type: article
Summary: Discusses the DMCA's intended and actual protections in the context of the limits on fair use the Act created. Article examines the initial fears that the Act would significantly curtail innovation to see if they are still valid considering more recent common law interpretation of the DMCA and the judiciary's current treatment of the interests at stake. Finally, the article suggests congressional action to protect fair use under the DMCA and to make its intent behind the Act clear--to provide a fair use defense to DMCA violations.