CRI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Digital Rights Management, Architectural Rendering
2 Apr 2016
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Infringement naion: copyright reform and the law/norm gap. The internet, it turns out, can be regulated, even in the face of the fractured and anarchic internaional legal regime. Ironically, no less than the supreme court has so held, inding that the internet is not suiciently diferent to warrant wholesale reform of numerous long-standing legal doctrines. They argue that the ease of digital reproducion has enabled piracy on a scale never before witnessed in human history. They argue that development of digital rights management technology has enabled copyright owners to exercise unparalleled dominion over their property, thereby constraining fair use rights. Clearly, we are only beginning to grasp the massive changes afoot with the advent of digital technology. First, copyright law is increasingly relevant to the daily life of the average american. Second, this growing perinence has precipitated a heightened public consciousness over copyright issues.
